I will have my laptop with me so we'll see if any writing happens on the long shinkansen ride from Sendai to Hachinohe to Hokkaido...
Writing just got squeezed out for the day---and the day ended when I went to bed, about a half hour before I usually get out of bed on a workday...
Travel is a time to fill the reservoir, not try to drain it.
And now I have a bigger distraction. We gave a stray dog a home. She weighs in at 53 pounds and thinks she's a house dog. She's the biggest, most loveable mutt we've ever owned and always asking for attention. She's a German shepherd/bull terrier cross... we think. LOL
Anyway, when I go anywhere, I take a small notebook along to jot down anything that comes to mind about writing stories or one that I've already started. Sort of a writer's diary, since I keep track of the dates when making my entries.
What happened? Tell us, tell us. Please, please, please?
Since I'm still in college, most of my writing happens during the summer. Well, that's not really true. Creative writing happens in the summer, yucky school science writing happens during the rest of the year.
I think I posted something 'round here about the problem I had about a week and a half ago. Basically, at the job I do, they issue orders you're expected to obey, telling you to do things and to not do things, and then they'll tell you to do something you've been told not to do.
Well, two of 'em got up on their high horse about being called on it. I was told to take a very small amount of mail to the dock, which I had been forbidden to do (something about a safety hazard in passing through automatic doors---a totally bogus safety hazard, by the way). We exchanged words---some of 'em quite colorful---and the matter came to an end for the moment.
It was picked up yesterday, when I was handed a Notice of Suspension. I was to be suspended for an upcoming two-week period over "failure to obey orders." I did not.
The matter will in abeyance---the suspension itself is suspended on filing a timely grievance---and processing a grievance through all its steps could take two years and up. But I can't let these kind of things hang over me and I will take other action. Probably they will too, on some other front.
(It helps that there's a reek of stupidity among these particular supervisors, one in particular. On the said notice my name was misspelled. I can and will use that against them.)
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So you see that on a day where I hoped to do a little writing, get a few other things done, and go to bed maybe a little early; instead I was too unsettled to write, didn't get anything done, and wound up going to bed for a restless afternoon.
It's kind of depressing just how many people have experiences that could be taken right off a Dilbert comic strip.
At some point in all this, we had somebody from the Employee Assistance Program here to discuss making us feel better about worrying about all the problems with the post office and the world. The general consensus on the floor afterwards was that he depressed everyone.
Yesterday, I barely had time to unplug my old DVD player and plug this one in...and, also, right now, I only have one Blu-Ray movie. (I bet anybody who follows what I've posted this last year can guess which movie it is.)
The Blu-Ray picture looks really good...but I haven't had time to check out, say, how-or-how-well it plays regular disks or CDs.
Also it promises a lot if connected up to a lot of other things...I don't know if I'll bother. I just want it to play disks.
I suppose if things work out, I'll also be deciding which Blu-Ray DVDs to pick up in the next few months...replacements for this-or-that, or new releases.
And there's worry about whether the format will last the ages or not. Wax cylinders, 78s-33s-and-45s, Betamax, VHS...could Blu-Ray join them on the dustheap of technological advance?