Monthly Archive for August, 2006

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Haven’t posted in quite sometime

Published on August 17, 2006 in Lisa's Corner. Closed

So I haven’t had a chance to post in quite awhile. I have been very busy with my new job and my new life apparently. Some updates:

1. I travel alot these days – ALOT. I am normally on the road at least once a week. It has started to take its toll on my body – both physically and mentally. I am just exhausted overall. There really isn’t an end in sight just yet. I can expect to feel this way for the next coming months. I am not complaining about it. I actually really enjoy the travelling aspect of my job – it just gets tiresome.

2. I am moving. But I still don’t know my move in date. It was supposed to be August 25th, but after contacting the managers of the building (which is still being built) I was informed that it looks like I can’t move in until after September 8th. This of course is incredibly frustrating. How am I supposed to enlist help, a truck, and various other items (such as setting up electricity, changing my mailing address, etc.) until I know the actual date that I can move in? Don’t these people realize that in order to have a successful move certain things need to be in place well before the move in date? I am just hoping that the management of the leasing office is not as incompetent as the management of the building. And I am really hoping that they are not one in the same.

3. On the dating front – I still have a few prospects – but have decided to be by myself for awhile again. With all the travelling I’ve been doing it is hard to keep relationships – both romantic and otherwise. So I apologize to all of those who I have ignored. I am a little self absorbed right now I know and I apologize profusely.

Well those are my updates. My goals for the next couple of weeks consist of:

1. Focusing on my many work deadlines (I am already ahead of the game on most of them – YEAH!).

2. Delegating tasks when I need to.

3. Purging/packing my belongings and possibly holding a yard sale (which my boss volunteered to handle – again big YEAH!).

4. Most importantly truly taking some quality time for myself to unwind and de-stress (which will include both “me” time and friend time). During the “me” time, I will be conducting some self evaluations and reflections – you were forewarned.

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Progress is a finicky thing.

Published on August 17, 2006 in Daily Rambling. Closed

Well, I am two paragraphs away from finishing the 4th draft of my second chapter. Yesterday I got the website set up for one of my classes. I am really in just the “retyping” phase of other people’s work… Good times, fun times. Gotta have it done by Monday. Which means I have to miss an opportunity to pour wine for two of my favorite wineries at this fancy function in San Francisco. I will, however, be attending a function called “hog in the Fog” – a BBQ for Grape to Glass. At least I will get to do one fun this this weekend.

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Thought I would take a day off.

Published on August 16, 2006 in Daily Rambling. Closed

Yesterday I was planning on taking the day off. Instead, I worked on statistics. A lecture that will fail miserably if I do not get on the ball about it. Seriously folks. This is going to be one tough semester. I almost got sucked into office politics and had to go to the head of the department to get someone off my back. And classes haven’t even started yet.

If I wasn’t so worried that they would find me, I would write a lot more about them.

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When you’ve got work to do…

Published on August 10, 2006 in Dissing the dissertation and I'm healthy. Closed

you schedule a 2 hour manicure-pedicure, right? HA!

Did I ever say I had any work ethic? I think not.

But I swear I will get something done today. Right after I look up a restaurant in the Bay Area for me to meet my cousin.

And after I bail on a few phone meetings related to my research.

HA! Again.

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Give me a break.

Published on August 9, 2006 in I'm healthy. 2 Comments

When is it time to stop and breathe?

a. When you sit in bed until 10 pm writing a manual to a database you created for a company you no longer work for? You no longer work for them because you needed the time to do other things, like finish your dissertation and get prepared to teach two new classes.

b. When it dawns on you that your best friend is having a baby shower this weekend and you didn’t make ANY of the presents you had planned on making her because, well, you RAN OUT OF TIME? You rationalize not going home to immediately crank out said gifts by telling yourself that the baby isn’t due until Thanksgiving. That buys you more time.

c. When you sit at your computer desk at your “new” job and see that your hands are shaking and you start crying? Note that there are NO tissues of any kind anywhere in the vicinity and you will have to walk past all of your coworkers to get to the public restroom where you can unroll ten feet of rough paper to blow your nose.

d. When you seriously begin to wonder if the most helpful, but also the most creepy guy at work has some sort of crush on you? This makes you really uncomfortable. You don’t know how to get it to stop without offending the only person who can get you supplies.

I am heading to Sacto for a 5 day extravaganza of doctor’s appointments, dentist appointments, advisor meetings, and baby showers. Winemonkey asked if I needed a break from him and that is why I am going for so long. I know that it isn’t a break from him. I think it is more like a break from everything. But not really. I am just glad that I will get to see Porter this weekend and maybe, just maybe get some time to relax. If only I could turn my head off.

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Just a few short weeks.

Published on August 8, 2006 in Daily Rambling. Closed

And I will be knee deep in professing chemistry to a group of students. I am getting pretty nervous, considering I don’t have a single idea what I am going to do for one of the classes that I am going to be teaching. Not only do I not know what I am going to do, but it is the course in which I want to get a full time profession here.

In addition to all of that bull, I am still not finished with my dissertation, although I am markedly closer to the end. And I am still wrapping things up with the company I was working for over the summer.

So I am busy champing away at the pile of work here. Imagine me as little Miss Pac Mac.

p.s. Went to Vegas. It was fun. Maybe I will post pictures soon.

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