State of EJ
Jan. 30th, 2009 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pay_the_piperAs many have noticed...
I've not done any RP lately. I don't know if I can really explain what goes on in my head, but here's a shot:
For whatever irrational reason, I have come to think of RP as more like a second job instead of a hobby. I feel like people are waiting for me impatiently (regardless of if they really are, anyone that knows my head, well knows that it comes up with assumptions on its own without logic or reason.) It is frustrating for me, because I can't seem to write as well as I feel I should. Maybe this will change once I get back into school to finish up my English and History degrees.
That being said, there is still no word on who and when people are being laid off, so everyone in the lab is still thinking about it. We all make little jokes about it, Russ had a five year award, and made the comment: "I hope to make it another five....though things aren't looking for good for that now."
Richard even made a joke about the 401Ks today during Joel's 35 year 'party' (really, Tanya just dragged us all out of the lab to go stand there and clap, I was busy...but I went), he said Joel couldn't retire yet because he had to rebuild his "point 401". It was funny, at least, at the time. Jered's been bitching about how the CEO's monthly paycheck could pay 20 techs, and that the man could just take a pay cut.
Of course Jered made the comment to me the other day, discussing what we'd do if laid off, that he didn't know what...and that he might just go drive forklifts. Apparently they make 17 bucks an hour. He then asked if I liked Texas...which went down the road of 'no'. And there was then an argument about the University of Texas vs. Texas A&M. ((I was raised an Aggie, mind you.))
Also with work, I flipped some wires on one of my connectors for a TTRM ((a down hole instrument that measures line tension, borehole temperature and mud resistivity)), Jason took it over when a Z-Density came in and Terry wanted me to rebuild it. Jason pointed it out, and just said to be more careful...and then the next day he informed me he'd done the same thing on another TTRM he was working on at the same time. Amused, I pointed out that at least mine were the same color, his weren't.
The Z-Density I'm working on is pretty much done. I need to break the housing over the electronics, and then change the o-rings and such. But I'm ready to hook it up and test. Which is nice.
And that is pretty much it. I mean, I'm tired...have been all week. Thursdays and Wednesday I was ready to weep from the knots in my back and just...blah. God help me, I've cut and bruised myself enough this week to look like I've been in a fist fight. And the weather was just glorious on Wed. Oh yes...
Not.
I've not done any RP lately. I don't know if I can really explain what goes on in my head, but here's a shot:
For whatever irrational reason, I have come to think of RP as more like a second job instead of a hobby. I feel like people are waiting for me impatiently (regardless of if they really are, anyone that knows my head, well knows that it comes up with assumptions on its own without logic or reason.) It is frustrating for me, because I can't seem to write as well as I feel I should. Maybe this will change once I get back into school to finish up my English and History degrees.
That being said, there is still no word on who and when people are being laid off, so everyone in the lab is still thinking about it. We all make little jokes about it, Russ had a five year award, and made the comment: "I hope to make it another five....though things aren't looking for good for that now."
Richard even made a joke about the 401Ks today during Joel's 35 year 'party' (really, Tanya just dragged us all out of the lab to go stand there and clap, I was busy...but I went), he said Joel couldn't retire yet because he had to rebuild his "point 401". It was funny, at least, at the time. Jered's been bitching about how the CEO's monthly paycheck could pay 20 techs, and that the man could just take a pay cut.
Of course Jered made the comment to me the other day, discussing what we'd do if laid off, that he didn't know what...and that he might just go drive forklifts. Apparently they make 17 bucks an hour. He then asked if I liked Texas...which went down the road of 'no'. And there was then an argument about the University of Texas vs. Texas A&M. ((I was raised an Aggie, mind you.))
Also with work, I flipped some wires on one of my connectors for a TTRM ((a down hole instrument that measures line tension, borehole temperature and mud resistivity)), Jason took it over when a Z-Density came in and Terry wanted me to rebuild it. Jason pointed it out, and just said to be more careful...and then the next day he informed me he'd done the same thing on another TTRM he was working on at the same time. Amused, I pointed out that at least mine were the same color, his weren't.
The Z-Density I'm working on is pretty much done. I need to break the housing over the electronics, and then change the o-rings and such. But I'm ready to hook it up and test. Which is nice.
And that is pretty much it. I mean, I'm tired...have been all week. Thursdays and Wednesday I was ready to weep from the knots in my back and just...blah. God help me, I've cut and bruised myself enough this week to look like I've been in a fist fight. And the weather was just glorious on Wed. Oh yes...
Not.
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Date: 2009-02-01 04:04 pm (UTC)Is that why you set up the second Hermes account? >.> but yeah, I think it so makes sense to not want just that, as far as RP goes. I have a total manwhore of a muse - who is the most freaking interesting character I play. And I love playing off the, um, entertainment bits. But writing out the rest? The way he handles anything that life throws at him? I adore that. Ahem. But yeah, I grok you on that account. FYI, I love what I've seen of Hermes.
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Date: 2009-02-01 04:10 pm (UTC)But I just, ug. I wanted to do something interesting, and even when I redid everything it just fell right back into the same themes and such. I was a bit disappointed, because I didn't want to do most of what others wanted, and I felt kinda bad for it. ((It goes along with most of my discontent with RP in general, people always want to play something and I'm usually willing to do it. But I'm getting tired of giving, and giving and not getting what I want in return. Granted, very few people are willing to travel the dark roads I want to hike.))
And yes, Hermes is fun. I love him, but I get easily frustrated with people simply wanting to sex him. For fucks sake, most of the time he looks 14!! Ug. You've heard that rant before.