.:: Yolospat ::.

Since I’m working the night shift for next week, and I’m assuming the next 3 weeks, I’ve come to realize a few things.

1. Everyone is in bed when I’m ready to talk and jabber. The dog knows more secrets than he should.

2. The minute I’m about to go to bed in the morning (around 6-7am), I’m bound to get a work call. It’s unenviable.

3. Night time, especially around 4am, is the best farming time in WoW.

4. I have lots of quiet time.

5. I have the next 3 days off.

6. My “day” consists of 2 different days since I’m up from around 4pm to 7am. It’s really hard to tell what day it “really” is. Wait, what’s today??

7. I really miss insomniac movie theater on VH1, or was it MTV?

8. When I’m ready to go get my oil changed, I can’t find a 24 hour oil changing facility. What do the rest of the people who work night shift do when they need to get their oil changed?

Anyway, it’s different and weird. I haven’t worked the night shift in a year or something. I forgot about the silence of it, or the oddness. I’m a night person by nature. Night time, this time, these hours, are my prime time. I can wake up so much easier, I can go to sleep so much easier, but, I can’t get anything done.

I got a B+ in UNIX.

Fuck.

Next quarter I have one class that looks pretty fun, however, I have another class that I just have a feeling I’m going to hate.

ENG 202 - Professional Writing and Composition
IT 242 - Operating Systems and Practical Networks

Can you guess which one I’m going to hate? If you’ve picked out the English class, you are correct! My mind was made for more coding then writing. When I write, things get so jumbled around in such a disorganized fashion. This is where my ADD mind goes haywire. Ironically, simply just reading a book can cause the same effect, but I love to read so I force my way through it. I can’t force my way through English Comp, and it kills me. I’m pretty scared I will do horrible in the class, and I can’t give up this 4.0 GPA yet, I’m not ready to let it go. I’m surprised I’m doing so well in school however. This wouldn’t have been possible in high school or my first few years of college. The real reason I quit before finishing my degree was because they were starting to make me really get my nose inside my studies and I couldn’t wing it anymore. I’ve been able to wing school my whole life, until now. Now, I’m working my fucking ass off, but the payoff is amazing, even though I’m putting in twice the energy as some college students. I have to. It takes me so much longer to get around my ADD brick walls that point me off to other distractions, and I have to pull myself back on the straight line and push through it. God it’s hard. But I’m doing it.

I’m working the night shift this whole week, which means my days will be nights and my nights will be my days. I don’t mind, I’m actually looking a little forward to it. It’s going to be a pain to turn those nights and days around next week however.

Since I just got done with my group project in UNIX I’m going to treat myself to my own distraction.

I’ve been in Houston Texas since Friday. I’ve met my old sis Tiffany, her hubby Ossy, and my two little nieces, Sharon and Savannah. I’m in Auntie Jen heaven, but alas, I’m going home tomorrow.

I’m in love.

Today is the 256th day of the year. So …

if(date ==”09/13/2007″)Jenny.Write(”Happy Programmer’s Day”);

I have a new boss at work. My previous boss is going to the middle east for the next month, and my former co-worker (now, new boss) is my boss. Good things are going to happen, I just know it. I’ve already been given new projects that I am going to have a blast doing.

Lots of things will be changing, and I can only see them changing for the better. I also started my 401K plan on Monday since my company just offered it to us.

I have new found excitement about my job, this is good.

One paper down, 5 to go. I want to be caught up so I can enjoy my time in Texas. At the same time, I’m trying not to kill myself in the process. It’s a little slower in the evenings at work, and I snuck in a one page paper during that slow time. My advantage is I know all the information about these classes, I just have to get them down on paper in an organized fashion. Sometimes for my ADD mind, that proves to be difficult, but like I said, manageable.

The one thing I’m really enjoying lately is being off instant messengers. When I come in in the morning and when I go home at night, I don’t turn them on or off. I just keep them off. I’m not contacted, or bothered. I never knew such freedom. Although it’s a critical part of my job to be in communication with the rest of the company, the break is feeling way too nice to stop now.

Tonight I have a plan. I’m going to get done my 1-2 page paper about the client/server relationship, throw in a power point presentation for good standing and uber graphs and shit, then either go to bed, watch TV or read my book. I’ll try to get 2 papers done each day, and I might actually get caught up on ahead in school work. I can’t let that 4.0 GPA get away.

Brendan and I will be taking a small vacation on our 1 year anniversary next month. We’ve thought about different places to go, like the Georgia east coast, but we’re still tossing around the idea. Anyone have any suggestions? I took time off work and everything and it’s about time we had a formal vacation. Maybe California? Maybe Hawaii? So many options out there to toss around.

Oy, I gotta get started on this second paper. Oy. 

My friend Tom came for a visit this weekend. Talk about a great weekend and medicine for the soul. I’ve been stressed and anxiety ridden about lots of things, and he completely put my mind at ease and made me see a whole other view about things.  A positive view about them. He and my husband were like two peas in a pod since they have the same type of humor so by the end of the day my cheeks were in pain from laughing and smiling so much. I’m looking forward to a trip to Delaware to see him and his family sometime soon. I’m excited

I’ll be leaving to Houston Texas at the end of the week to pay visit to my long time dear friend Tiffany and family. I’ll be seeing my nieces that are so dear to me. It’s little Sharon’s Birthday this weekend. She’ll be four years old, not so little anymore. I’m so excited to be there for the party, and to finally meet Oscar, her husband from Holland. Tiffany and I were talking about it the other day, that we’ve known each other for nearly 10 years now. Ahhh, it’s going to be a great weekend.

I have so much homework to get caught up on. Oy.

I can’t believe I forgot to mention this. On that note, I can’t believe I haven’t posted pictures of my iPhone yet. I’m in love with it BTW and I don’t know how I ever functioned without it.

Anyway, of course I would be on the bandwagon of hacking my iPhone. I used iBrickr software (for mac users out there, it’s called Breezy) It was a very easy process. This video walks you through it step by step. There are many Apps that pop up everyday I’ve noticed in The exploit.org PXL repository. This is a picture of the normal layout of the iPhone.

On my iPhone you can see I’ve filled in the last row of icons. The NES emulator is my favorite app.

Sure, there are always bugs .. but, the payoff is worth it.

We’re being asked at work for things like, a current copy of our resume, and a task list of things we do day in and day out. We’ve been told it’s not because anyone’s job is on the line, or that we’re downsizing. It’s because the company is growing and they want to formulate an organization chart to identify and capture our talent pool of employees.

As with all progressive organizations, we need to be in a position to share our talent pool with potential clients and inventory our technical expertise as we continue to expand the business.

My resume I submitted was very rough draft as I didn’t have time to properly do it because of the pressure to get my task list done for not only last week but so far this week. That was pretty hard because it’s so busy I don’t write down what I do. I think, however, I should change that and keep a task list, or a daily log of what I do and how much time I spend on a project just so I have that information personally. It could only help me in the future. I might think about making a web-based form of this. We’ll see, I have a lot on my plate right now, adding something else might not  be a good idea.

I’m thinking again about installing Media Wiki and actually giving it a change to stop bugging out on me, altho that could be user error.

“You can’t go back and make a new beginning, but you can start today and make a new ending.”

Through my school experience, my husband is actually learning some things. I’m too nervous and paranoid to hand in my papers without them first being proof read. Who better to do that then my articulate husband who is practically a walking dictionary and grammar corrector. So, he’s learned about UNIX now, and a brief history of the Windows operating system.

I had a great call this morning, and it being a Monday I halfway expected it.

Idiot of the day: Hi, one of my supervisors is having problems with their email

Me: What is your supervisors name?

Idiot of the day: I’m not sure which one, I just know it’s one of them.

Me: Do you think you can find out this information and give me a call back?

Idiot of the day: (long sigh) I guess

I hope I didn’t make his day too difficult by getting his supervisors name.

I’m here at work till 8 tonight, or there-abouts. I’m going to try and sneak in some homework if I can tonight while it’s slow.

It was a long weekend since I had to work. Today our new guys were supposed to take over the job of manning the phones, but when I just tried making some test calls no one is picking up the phone. So, after took the phones back and send out a “who has the phone” email, I quietly thought to myself, not only will I have a day and a half off, but I’ll have two days off. This will give me a 4 day weekend.

:: blink blink ::

What is it about people and responsibility? The new guy knows that the phone can’t be ignored. We’ve already had one new guy go to lunch and not come back, is that the same thing that just happened now? When was it ok for people to not take responsibility for their actions? Unreal, and completely unprofessional.

I’ve been busy doing homework today. My UNIX class is so much fun, mostly because I can write up papers pretty fast since I know so much about UNIX.

One more 3 page paper to write before 1am….then I need to get Friday’s assignments started since Tom is coming this weekend. So much to do, so little time.