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Off and running again....

Post by hester_prynne » September 24th, 2008, 11:59 am

I'm leaving in a couple of hours to go see Stella in Astoria, a last vacation until who knows when after my new job starts the first of Oct. I"m so excited to see Stella, a bit worried about my car, but faith must see me thru...send me a good car wish would ya?
Last night was my last clinic night...they sent me off with compliments, good wishes and a Jazz alley coupon!!!!!! Wow.
I hope i'm doing the right thing here taking this new job.....hard to leave the clinic when I don't think about the peanuts it pays....
not much access to computers in Astoria.....
Cheers to all, wish me luck and the same to you!
H 8)
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Post by Doreen Peri » September 24th, 2008, 12:02 pm

Have a great trip! Enjoy your time with Stella! All the best with the new job. Keep us posted :)

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Post by Barry » September 24th, 2008, 12:14 pm

Good car wish coming your way.:)

Peace,
Barry

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Post by judih » September 24th, 2008, 1:58 pm

here's to a greatly successful road trip leading you to stella, the star of kids.

Enjoy!
it'll be alright, it'll be alright

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Post by Arcadia » September 25th, 2008, 1:29 pm

well, I can´t send you a car, but a good car wish, sure!!!!!!!! :D

best wishes to you, hester & enjoy the time with your daughter!!!!!

besos,

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Post by hester_prynne » October 2nd, 2008, 12:15 am

Whelp, I made it to Astoria and then got back to Seattle and went to my first day of work as a State SSD Adjudicator!
My feet hurt because I wore a new pair of shoes all day, but other than that I am totally digging this job...the people are really tolerable! Good senses of humor etc. Today was mostly orientation and that sort of thing..but they gave us an outline of our training...which is for 3 months. Then they test you. And all the while you get quizzed too. This worries me some as tests are not my forte. There will be alot of things to learn, computer languages, abbreviations, state regs, man I hope I can do this....
I am just going to give it my all and I mean my all. I mean I think if I do that I should make it alright.
Seattle is wonderful....I am looking forward to getting my own place in a month or so.....it's funny, you know, I mean I lived here for many years before I moved to Astoria and It's alot like coming home....sure it's grown, but it's a very nice city with nice people...in fact i've run into a couple of people I know!
I truly enjoy taking the bus too and the state gave me a bus pass! so I have free transport. I'm telling you, in two months i'm going to get rid of my car...think i'll give it to Stella. To live without having to have a car would be a wonderful thing. Flex car would work fine for me and that is cheap cheap cheap!
I'm all full of newness here....babbling on like a brook that was dried up and then miraculously came back to life.
Not much computer time but am so groovin on what I am reading here up in Creative, kudos to all up there.
How are you? Enough about me..... :D
H 8)
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Post by mtmynd » October 2nd, 2008, 8:36 am

new moon, new job... nre vibes, new ideas, new friends even old friends, what more can Hes' need?

congrats!

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Post by hester_prynne » November 2nd, 2008, 11:05 pm

About a month into it...and it's a bear of a job lemme tell you. I'm so totallly into the throes of it...different than much that I've done in the past, but hopefully doable...weird to be the oldest trainee in the room...some sassy young un's in there, being competitive and assholian. But I can remember myself back then, and perhaps this is my karma for my own insensititivites to old ladies when I was in my 30's.
Heh.
I'm just laid back, and learning this shit, sometimes offended at what I see as just plain heartlessness towards people in need of assistance. I mean, sure, there are people that play the system, but I think also there are many that don't and it pisses me off that the few players ruin it for the truly needy ones, the ones who meekly take the denials and shrink off into god knows where, perhaps to die in a dumpster. Sigh.
Why is it that I care so deeply about these folks, why can't I just do the job without thinking of the consequences I am possibly inflicting on some family whose parent is disabled and can't work, and yet I have to deny them assistance because they don't qualify due to some reason that makes most claims impossible to allow?
I better shut up about this. Just a small rant.
I'm liking the city, found myself a very quaint and cheap little one bedroom apt...am keeping things cheap while still this early in this game....I think that is prudent of me.
I feel myself wishing I weren't always alone for things. Wish I had some partner to move with me into this place, and have a cup of coffee and some dinner ready when I get home..it's always about fucking fending for myself with very little...I get so tired of it, of being all alone.
Another rant...don't mind me.
And thanks to those of you who read my last little ditty about naked with a holster on...it's a bright spot for me that piece, I mean the line just jumped into my head outta nowhere like a real inspiration and I was so glad to have one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not much time right now for the studio damn it...buy ya'll are writing like champs....I love to go to creative and read the poetry...it's a tonic for me right now.
Anyways, send me your good vibes once in a while...after I move into my new pad I won't have a computer for awhile until I can buy one....so will be libraryin in again....on the weekends.
Ta Ta for now
H 8)
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Post by stilltrucking » November 3rd, 2008, 7:04 pm

I read the poem too, brilliant. Cheered me up a lot.

Yeah know what kind of job it is for someone like you Theda.

Someone who is here, someone who has compassion. I knew a young guy in Maryland who went to work for the state in a similiar situation. He gotdid it with all his might for several years. Then he so unhappy he he had to resign.


I was almost afraid to read this one Theda, probably just my paranoia about the title. Off and Running. I wonder if I will ever say that again?

I hope so

thanks for the musical on Mystical.
I thought I saw you in the crowd at newport.

I don't think I ever heard y ou sound happier then when

you were singing

I hope find a good gig to counter balance the j.o.b.

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