A Lot Of Thoughts On A Lot Of Stuff...
Dec. 9th, 2004 03:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
badstar1. : work is driving me farther and farther up the wall. I'm in dager of hitting the ceiling. So I have a plan. I'm going to take the opportunity to get these various apple certifications that they're offering. Take thetests, pass them, get reimbursed and use them to find me a better job.
On an unrelated note, there are 2 new aents sitting immediately adjacent to me. They'll be ok...but for now, I'm being called on a lot for help. I'm being very sure not to let it affect my own time. Which it really hasn't because Tuesday, I had a lot of time doing nothing while on hold. And yesterday, I was unable to log in for 2 hours...sooo I was on training time. And by training time, I mean helping the guy next to me with a dispatch. And the one across from me with some bizarre airport issues. Trying to be helpful while not being a crutch.
2. My post the other day about Rhode Island: I am still having compelling thoughts of running away to Providence. Which is only mildly insane. I have no job lined up, no place to live no way to get my stuff there bah blah blah...kinda reminds me of when I moved down here....with more money. I did it then, therefore I could do it again. The ability do do so does not necessarily mean that I should. Not just yet at least.
3. Spiritual Affiliations or whatver have you...since I moved down here, I have waffled on finding a group or not in which to participate in spiritual-type activity. I still very much miss Full Circle. If i had a car i'd go up to Devon for their rituals. Sunday I finally made it out to Cedarlight Center for their Sunday coffee/brunch thing and met quite a few people there and I think i've found what i'm looking for, and why i've wafled...and what that comes down to is simple...I want to have some sort of spiritual community, but because my own beliefs are different from any defined group that I know of, I don't want to have to formally join a group in sme way shape or form. I don't feel like I *really* belong to a group (I do not see this as a bad thing, it's just how I am.) But I do want to be part of a group as it suits me. In talking to several people, I had no probem expressing this thought openly and I felt that they understood and were completely cool with it. I know that there are a lot of people out there who have probems with an idea like this...I've pondered that a bit myself...and i've cometo the firm cnclusion that it's ok.
They have a meeting tonight. I think i will go.
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chicken_hunter left thse questions for me a while back and in the midst of moving and stuff I completely forgot about them...It's that 5-question thing where if you want e to as you questions, leave a comment in my journal saying so and I'll leave one with questions...1) If this country became REALLY bad such that you couldn't practice or enjoy your basic freedoms- ie Communist, Fascist, Totalitarian, etc.- what would you do, and/or where would you go?
i would like to say that i would stay and fight it. ideally i would. how i would fight would depend on the situation. what would my running away accomplish? the idea of an underground resistance is fascinating to me.
i admit though, if faced with the actual situation, i may just buy an island and declare myself a soveriegn nation :-P
but seriously if i DID decide to just leave....well, i've head a lot of good thigns about iceand and sweden (high taxes aside) those would probably be my top prospects for consideration.
2) What are your standards for your friends?
really tends to go on individual merits. intelligence and a sense of humor are most important.ad honesty. because lying is one thing that i have exceedingly little tolerance for. beyond that...wel there are some common threads within particular grous of my friends, but nothing that i would reallyconsider a "tandard" for my firendship
3) What is your idea of the perfect man (to have an intimate relationship with)?
honest, intelligent, good sense of humor. pursuit of some sort of artistic ends is good but not required. doesn't need to constantly lean on me and doesn't want me to constantly lean on him. (independence is very important) communicaton is important (well duh) some sense of the spiritual, but doesn't necesarily have to agree with mine. open minded to the merits of different ideas, but not so guillible and naive as to be too easily swayed (if that makes no sense....what i mean is to be willing to consider the merits of new ideas or those you don't agree with, but really changing one's mind on the thigns tat are importat afer really consdering thigns and thinking it through)
4) If you could change any one thing about yourself, what would it be?
tough one. i've givn up nail biting again, so that's out of the realm of necessity...for now. i dunno, i guess i could stand to be a little less easilydistracted at times
5) How do you feel about having children (regarding yourself, or society in general)?
society- it's not taken seriously enough. too many people aren't responsible enough. too many kids in really bad situations.
myself- not planning to have kids. i'm not saying never, i'm DEFINITELY saying not now but i just don't see it. i don't think i'd make a very good parent. i don't think i have the patience. though..a year of working in tech support has shown me that i have infinitely more patience than i realize. i'm also afraid of having kids and having he same mistakes made by other people as were with me. or somethnge equally screwed up. for now, i'm hay being the Aunt who spoils Child when I see her. (Child=Samantha=my niece who is oh my god...5 years old now....
On an unrelated note, there are 2 new aents sitting immediately adjacent to me. They'll be ok...but for now, I'm being called on a lot for help. I'm being very sure not to let it affect my own time. Which it really hasn't because Tuesday, I had a lot of time doing nothing while on hold. And yesterday, I was unable to log in for 2 hours...sooo I was on training time. And by training time, I mean helping the guy next to me with a dispatch. And the one across from me with some bizarre airport issues. Trying to be helpful while not being a crutch.
2. My post the other day about Rhode Island: I am still having compelling thoughts of running away to Providence. Which is only mildly insane. I have no job lined up, no place to live no way to get my stuff there bah blah blah...kinda reminds me of when I moved down here....with more money. I did it then, therefore I could do it again. The ability do do so does not necessarily mean that I should. Not just yet at least.
3. Spiritual Affiliations or whatver have you...since I moved down here, I have waffled on finding a group or not in which to participate in spiritual-type activity. I still very much miss Full Circle. If i had a car i'd go up to Devon for their rituals. Sunday I finally made it out to Cedarlight Center for their Sunday coffee/brunch thing and met quite a few people there and I think i've found what i'm looking for, and why i've wafled...and what that comes down to is simple...I want to have some sort of spiritual community, but because my own beliefs are different from any defined group that I know of, I don't want to have to formally join a group in sme way shape or form. I don't feel like I *really* belong to a group (I do not see this as a bad thing, it's just how I am.) But I do want to be part of a group as it suits me. In talking to several people, I had no probem expressing this thought openly and I felt that they understood and were completely cool with it. I know that there are a lot of people out there who have probems with an idea like this...I've pondered that a bit myself...and i've cometo the firm cnclusion that it's ok.
They have a meeting tonight. I think i will go.
4.
chicken_hunter left thse questions for me a while back and in the midst of moving and stuff I completely forgot about them...It's that 5-question thing where if you want e to as you questions, leave a comment in my journal saying so and I'll leave one with questions...1) If this country became REALLY bad such that you couldn't practice or enjoy your basic freedoms- ie Communist, Fascist, Totalitarian, etc.- what would you do, and/or where would you go?i would like to say that i would stay and fight it. ideally i would. how i would fight would depend on the situation. what would my running away accomplish? the idea of an underground resistance is fascinating to me.
i admit though, if faced with the actual situation, i may just buy an island and declare myself a soveriegn nation :-P
but seriously if i DID decide to just leave....well, i've head a lot of good thigns about iceand and sweden (high taxes aside) those would probably be my top prospects for consideration.
2) What are your standards for your friends?
really tends to go on individual merits. intelligence and a sense of humor are most important.ad honesty. because lying is one thing that i have exceedingly little tolerance for. beyond that...wel there are some common threads within particular grous of my friends, but nothing that i would reallyconsider a "tandard" for my firendship
3) What is your idea of the perfect man (to have an intimate relationship with)?
honest, intelligent, good sense of humor. pursuit of some sort of artistic ends is good but not required. doesn't need to constantly lean on me and doesn't want me to constantly lean on him. (independence is very important) communicaton is important (well duh) some sense of the spiritual, but doesn't necesarily have to agree with mine. open minded to the merits of different ideas, but not so guillible and naive as to be too easily swayed (if that makes no sense....what i mean is to be willing to consider the merits of new ideas or those you don't agree with, but really changing one's mind on the thigns tat are importat afer really consdering thigns and thinking it through)
4) If you could change any one thing about yourself, what would it be?
tough one. i've givn up nail biting again, so that's out of the realm of necessity...for now. i dunno, i guess i could stand to be a little less easilydistracted at times
5) How do you feel about having children (regarding yourself, or society in general)?
society- it's not taken seriously enough. too many people aren't responsible enough. too many kids in really bad situations.
myself- not planning to have kids. i'm not saying never, i'm DEFINITELY saying not now but i just don't see it. i don't think i'd make a very good parent. i don't think i have the patience. though..a year of working in tech support has shown me that i have infinitely more patience than i realize. i'm also afraid of having kids and having he same mistakes made by other people as were with me. or somethnge equally screwed up. for now, i'm hay being the Aunt who spoils Child when I see her. (Child=Samantha=my niece who is oh my god...5 years old now....
