frebruary 25, 2004 - 17:52 - hot news for the apathetic
today marks the two year anniversary of my admittedly
anticlimatic return to the employ of
the company, and the hours passed just as innocuously as one
might predict.
who would suspect that the sickly sweet bi-weekly financial injections of
a steady paycheck could be as effective as the mighty colorado in
ultimately carving a canyon through the soul?
...and suddenly jack realizes he's another late twenty-something, almost
thirty-something, college educated adult who can look back through a
post-high-school kaleidoscope of memories practically a decade in length
and still be left wondering what it is that he's really achieved
in all that time.
(besides a demonstrated affinity for run-on sentences and impassive
blather that does pathetically little to help the situation).
february 24, 2004 - 08:01 - customer satisfaction
(dragonspeak warning)
this morning, i stumbled across a rather brilliant quote contained
within Anu Garg's lovely AWAD
mailing. —to be honest, quotes contained therin trend
towards brilliance anyway, but this one is particularily apropos
as i don my 'support hat' and prepare for another day of <$adjective>
customer interaction.
"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious." - Oscar Wilde
if someday i were to similarly master the art of saying so much with
so little...
february 16, 2004 - 21:13 - boundary conditions
considered purely as a deterministic measure of time, february cowers
as somewhat of an afterthought in an unappreciated corner of the
calendar year...
...a calendar year that is simultaneously too old to still be
'exciting and new', (e.g. you no longer accidentally transcribe last
year's digits onto signed documents), yet too young to motivate
anyone with the brutal earnestness that a deadline such as the
END OF THE YEAR demands. quite simply, there still remains a
whole lot of 'tomorrow' left to exploit.
then, as if to add insult to injury, the very composition
of february is redefined on a quadrennial basis. it exists as a kind
of pseudo scientific band-aid, a crude slight-of-hand to mask the fact
that our planet rotates about the sun in an irrational period which
does not fit nicely into the rational space we'd really, really like it to.
rendered impotent by the shifting guidelines of western calendars,
how can february possibly demand the respect of those that tumble through
its tear-away days with reckless indifference?
then again, maybe it is this very element of ambiguity that makes
february so compelling. a bridge between winter and spring,
or fairy tales and reality; february allows for the blurring of the
edges, the simple suggestion of 'chaos theory,' in bug free code.
...........
this year is a leap year. i like to think that if i time it
just right, maybe i'll find the opportunity to see through the
boundary conditions of my own 'killing me softly' penchant for
self-defintion and into the possibility of pointedly perplexing parallel
potentials.
'to see with eyes unclouded by comfort'
of course, that sounds like work. maybe i'll just resign to
the movies and try to loose myself in someone else's imagination...
february 16, 2004 - 06:27 - re:start
long story short: i neglected to post here for a few days. then weeks.
then...
...bolstered thus with the inertia of procrastination, i decided to label
my neglect as a sabbatical of sorts, a break in the routine with the
improbably ignorant motive of wrist-healing.
having recently returned from an all-too-short holiday to colorado,
(including a possibly too-long roundtrip roadtrip), it is suddenly clear that
all the time in the world won't definitively cure WHD, and
i've got some things i should try to formulate in text, as they
are making an unholy mess of my background thought processes.
er.. it's time to start plotting again. or something.
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