Random Fusion

Well, it may be your Monday, but today is my Friday. I worked the weekend again (not really such a big deal) and it was crazy. Saturday night wasnt too bad (and at the end it was kind of slow to be honest), but Sunday was STUPID!

I started reading Les Miserables this weekend and while its a little slow going, I am enjoying it. I suspect that because if its size and weight, I will be working on the thing for a while now. Long Way Round is half way done and proving to be a very good read and Michael Palin's autobiography is turning out to be a good read as well.

The weather has been absolutely fantastic in the last couple of days and I wish I had been out there enjoying it. However, I do have two days coming to me and I will make sure that I spend as much time outside in the sun reading as I possibly can.

Game is going well, but I am getting tired of it right now. I am looking forward to the end of the huge plot we are running so that I can take a bit of a break.

No new movies in the last couple of days.

I think the final episode of Heroes is on tonight. Should be very exciting.

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The sun is shining. The sky is a nice deep blue with only a couple clouds floating by and there is a nice light breeze.

AND I HAVE TO BE AT WORK!

Damn it. I have to work from 2 till 10:30pm today. Completely missing all the nice balacony sun that will be happening today. I sat out in the sun on Thursday after work and it was really nice. The sun was hot and there was very little breeze on our side of the building. I love sitting and reading in the sun in the later part of the afternoon. I usually spend those afternoons reading as much as I possibly can.

I'm really spending a lot of time thinking over this Fringe thing. I know that if I quit this job and go to back to working in the theatre, I wont be making much money and I will have to haul ass hard core to get work. I think so far, I have been out of the loop for about 7 years except for my time at the Fringe. With the help desk job, I have a guaranteed income and work. I can get promoted and will eventually have insurance and such.

Even if I say that I want to work at the help desk, it really upsets me that I cant work for the Fringe festival. The more that I think about not being able to work in Theatre, the more unhappy I get.

Maybe I'll think about this some more.

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Well, here it is, another day off (only one, I had the other on Tuesday) and I'm fairly relaxed now. The sun was out and it was super warm out today. Well, 23 any way, far warmer then it has been in the last few months. With the increase in the sun and the weather, I got to spend some time out on the balcony again wih my summer chair.

The fight with Shauna ended well enough and I think we managed to get some more stuff understood. I'm not too comfortable talking about them here so this is all your going to get.

Stopped off at the end of Wednesday and talked with my boss from the Fringe festival. If EDS will give me static shifts for the length of the Fringe (possibly a 7am to 3:30pm), I can come in and do the rest of the shows I need to after that. It shouldnt be too much trouble. I think I'll be as tired as I have been in the past. Nothing I cant handle.

I just hope that I get the chance to prove to EDS over the coming months that it isnt a waste of the their time and effort to keep me around. Things are going to get very busy around EDS in the coming months and year as two larger contracts are being shifted to the Winnipeg location for a while as well as the contracts they are bidding on. I want to keep working for EDS and I really want they to want me around. I know given time I can prove myself to be worthwhile, but this Fringe thing is getting me off on the wrong foot.

Watched Deja vu last night. Its a good enough movie.

Reading "Long Way Round" By Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman. Shauna and I watched the show and it was really good, I bet the book will be just as good.

Also reading Michael Palin's autobiography. VERY good read. I am enjoying it immensely.

Enough for now.

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So I found out today that my chances of working the Fringe this year arent too good. The new job, as most places would be, isnt going to be as accomodating as other jobs have been in the past. This really isnt a surprise for me, but it is causing a lot of thought.

Before, I never really had to make a choice between doing what I wanted to and what I had to do. I had to work in other places to make money between theatre jobs and I wanted to work at the Fringe. The office job from hell let me work the Fringe, the Bay after that let me work the Fringe and when I worked for Mind, they let me work the Fringe as well.

I dont blame the new job for being unwilling to let me do it. They are huge and dont need me. There are hundreds of people willing to work here who are as qualified as I am. This is a place where I am only a face in the crowd right now and I have yet to make myself stand out.

I want to work here. I want to do this job. But I also want to work the Fringe. I want to do theatre work. This is definately time to make my choice.

Update: It looks like my vacation request to get the time off has been denied. Right off the bat.

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Fighting with Shauna right now.

Things don't look good.

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What you wish for.

I wished it would be busy and man o man it was. Dang it!

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Wow, the 500th entry for my journal\web page\thing.

I dont know if when I started this I was thinking about how long I would be writing here or whether or not I would write consistently. 500 entries later, here I am and while not going strong just yet, I am still going.

At work today (days off are Monday and Tuesday) and I am about to start work (6:30am). Its not too bad to work weekends and even early weekends, although I didnt sleep to well and I am pretty tired this morning.

Hopefully today will be a nice busy day to keep me entertained.

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I know its been a long time since I last posted and I think I kind of regret it.

Since I last posted I have been working hard at the new job.

The setting for the new job is a lot different from Mind and I have to admit that I like it a lot. The work environment is a lot of professional and a lot more "organized". The mentality is the same (one of common business sense) but its actually being implemented here. I get training time for new software that they want us to use, I get time to talk to my bosses at regular intervals and I get time to make sure that I am getting the work I have assigned to me done.

The people are nice and so far there dont appear to be any personality conflicts yet. I've managed to head out and socialize once with people since I started and it was a lot of fun so I hope that I can do it again soon.

Sigh.

I wish that I could make this all sound more exciting or interesting but I really cant. Work is work and life is life. I am still running the vampire game on alternate weekends and watching lots of movies when I'm not at either.

To be honest work is great and I really like doing the work but I think I may leave here to go work the Fringe in the summer. When I brought up the idea of taking some time off to work the Fringe this summer, my team lead ( a very nice guy all around ) said that he didnt think it would happen but he would talk to his boss and see what they could do. When he said that, I immediately felt very unhappy at the thought that I might not work the Fringe. I know that by doing the Fringe I can continue to pretend to be part of the community and talk with my friends when I see them about some of the work I've done. I wonder now what I miss the most, the work or the people.

I've thought about trying to do more writing lately and I think I will, but it will take a lot of effort. I have been pocrastinating about this entry for weeks now and even as I started it, I wasnt too keen on it and wanted to stop.

I cant promise I will write more, but I can assure you I want to.

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