Gravity

Weeeeeeeeeeee!!!! School comes closer. The forces at work here twist my mind and stretch my body. Even my supervisor is feeling the crunch, which is good or I doubt his "forgiveness" would be as high as it is. As it is, I think he's causing more difficulty than need be. I think I understand his goals but what I don't understand is why he feels he needs to meddle in everything. We know how to do our jobs and we do them fairly well for the most part. We've been doing them for almost 10 years now. He has only been in his current position for a little over a year and the "world" he came from is a lot different. Don't try and re-make us in your own image. We have better things to do with our time. Stand behind us and help when we ask for it; don't stand in front of us and hit us on the nose with a stick anytime you think we should be doing something different. Guide us, yes, if need be, but don't stand in our well-trodden foot path complete with bridges we have built and say that the swamp is better. We've been there. We know the murky depths and we managed to climb out anyway. Don't pull us back in while asking us to satisfy your curiosity to see if we can swim.

In other news, something's brewing on the horizon. (If that isn't a mixed metaphor, I don't know what is.) I'm not sure what it is, but the bridge upon which I stand may not need to hold me much longer. Hopefully that doesn't mean I'll have to jump over the edge, but you never know. :-)

I just started the Harry Potter series again. I actually forgot how good those books really were. They still don't match Tolkien's works as some people are wont to compare, but they are quite good.

In closing, I had a good chuckle today. I was chatting with an SBC representative and asking if my phone bill would now be automatically deducted from my credit card. He brought up my account, proceeded to tell me the services that I had (in confirmation) and indicated that yes, my bill would be paid automatically. He then asked if I would be interested in Yahoo Dial-up service. I told him that although that sounded interesting, I already had their best DSL package and didn't really want to go back to dial-up. *snort* Oh well. Hence the reason it is always a good idea to know thy customer.