Another day, another *thinks* More than One Dollar

So It's 8:00 AM and none of the other engineers are here yet, so I'm going to try and sneak in a longer LJ entry than the past couple days.

I'm feeling a tad under the weather. I've been feeling this way since yesterday morning. Mostly I suspect it's just getting used to the new job (I've been tired all week), plus I had a KILLER sore throat yesterday. The throat is feeling a bit better today (though I have Cepacol Sore Throat stuff with me in case it starts returning).

I'm noticing that it feels like my week is going by alot faster, being in this office 9 hours a day. I come home from work and change into jeans and go out to look at beds or.. speakers or.. whatever and then it's 8:00 or 9:00 and I'm back at the apartment and it's time to talk to mom, Kristen et. al. and then go to sleep.

I miss home terribly. I'm NOT unhappy with the new life.. I'm really excited about moving into my own apartment Saturday and I think I'm going to go out Saturday night and see Scooby Doo 2. Are either xeren or kirielle interested in seeing this movie? I wouldn't mind company. I want to see The Ladykillers too, but I might try to see it NEXT Friday in Buffalo with mom. I'm sure if I suggest it, she'll go for it :) Wanna come too, ecwoodburn? It really looks like a fun movie :D
I miss Kristen too. I do speak to her twice a day and that helps to some extent, but I think part of me is desperate to bring her into this new life and make her a place in it.
Though, to be fair to myself, I'm still finding my own place in it and I should probably do that first before I can say where others will/can fit into it.

Actually, the past week's been pretty nuts. I've been out and about every night this week (I took last night mostly off and spent the night at home (and watching West Wing! Did anyone else see it? It was good :) ), out looking for a bed or.. grocery shopping or.. getting speakers and stuff. Just out every night.
There's so much I need to get.. not just a bed, but stuff for the apartment, new clothes for work (preferably do THIS shopping with someone with some fashion sense instead of my father and preferably buy stuff expecting it to work together instead of buying a little bit of everything and hit-or-missing)

I really like my job. According to the engineer training me (Jaspreet for future reference), I'm way ahead of where I should be. Apparently the first two days of training is usually spent having the trainee read. Instead of that, yesterday I was doing at least the initial stages of what I'd actually be doing with my own cases (An inventory of a (C)LMR report ((Conditional) Letter of Map Revision - Basically asking for FEMA to (in case of a CLMR, consider) revising their flood maps, usually due to new structures (highways, houses etc.) or sometimes, in one case I'm working on for another engineer, Del, a revised channel between a pond and a creek.
I keep asking myself if this is what I wanted to do with myself? And the answer is... assuming that eventually I move away from reviewing other models and start, perhaps, modelling myself, I think this *IS* what I wanted to do with myself.
And if it never gets to that, I'll have a few years experience doing that sort of beginning stuff and can probably go find a firm that IS doing the sort of work I want to do.

So, yeah.. long story short.. life is good. Life might be better if I were still in or at least very near Buffalo or, especially, if Kristen were here in MD, but life isn't too bad at all.

I'm going to go post and go start working on my cases again.

Love to my dork, all of my friends (you dorks) and to the cool people I love who aren't reading this.

Howard B. Kellick, E.I.T. (hee! I love the title!) out :D