Thursday, March 25, 2004

Calm after the storm before the next storm…

Calm after the storm before the next storm...

Things have been surprisingly quiet today. No - I am not complaining. I am basking in the silence that is my floor. Knowing full well that in 24 hours this floor will be a mess of activity as validation activities start up and people roll in to start the 12 to 14 hours shifts that make validation. Lucky me, I only have a 12 hour shift, then rest, another 12 hour shift, more rest and another 7 hour shift. Ah, the joys of being hourly and getting paid overtime! But I digress. Most people only have one 12 to 14 hour shift. So by the time I am so tired I can't keep my eyes open, I will be dealing with a bunch of fresh faced people who have been sleeping on a regular schedule.

And someone asked me why I didn't think I would be in on Monday...

It is quiet here and I am loving it. I have been so stressed out lately that I have been getting "stress headaches" seemingly caused by my shoulders being so tight that I can no longer look from left to right. Tuesday was the kicker though. I got one of those funny little eye twitches. You know where the muscle in your eye starts twitching uncontrollably and you can't make it stop. That was when I knew I needed to rest. So I went home and took a bath. It was very nice.

I am starting to think about planning my move to Ballard. I do need to know the exact move in date - but that hasn't been given to me yet. I think all parties involved would like it to be April 1st - or the weekend after. We will see. I am hopeful that everything works out - I am sure it will. The apartment is lovely. It is on the 4th floor with a view of the Ballard bridge. Tons of natural light (it happened to be sunny on the day we were there) and they allow pets. Which is the whole reason I wanted the place. Of course having a washer/ dryer in unit, parking garage below, and a very secure building helped. But it was really all about the possibility of getting another cat that sealed the deal. I miss my kitty.

I was at this site earlier: Department of Redundancy Dept.
 in his blog for March 24th he has this quote:

THEY all want to play Hamlet.
They have not exactly seen their fathers killed
Nor their mothers in a frame-up to kill,
Nor an Ophelia dying with a dust gagging the heart,
Not exactly the spinning circles of singing golden spiders,
Not exactly this have they got at nor the meaning of flowers
O flowers, flowers slung by a dancing girl in the saddest play the inkfish, Shakespeare, ever wrote;
Yet they all want to play Hamlet because it is sad like all actors are sad and to stand by an open grave with a joker's skull in the hand and then to say over slow and say over slow wise, keen, beautiful words masking a heart that's breaking, breaking,
This is something that calls and calls to their blood.
They are acting when they talk about it and they know it is acting to be particular about it and yet: They all want to play Hamlet.
--Carl Sandburg

It was so incredible I had to copy it. It is something I really want to think about...later. I don't have the brain power needed to sit and contemplate this at the moment, but I am hoping that in another couple of weeks I will.

Wish me luck this weekend!


Posted by Autumn Goddess on 03/25 at 01:04 PM
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