that was dumb

I forgot the username and password to this thing, so I haven't written anything.

I haven't done much, except work at HLC. My job is pretty simple, it's just the tasks I get are usually very tedious. Yesterday I had to type up 14 letters so we would have an electronic copy of them. Two weeks ago I had to call the 35 company centers and ask each of them how many ground signs they had, and what type they had.

It was super fun.

I can't wait to get back to school. I need to get away from home, and hopefully all...drama....will have subsided, or will at the very least go away during the semester.

I was in a mosque the other day, and it was a few days after the plan to blow up 3 or so planes was foiled. The imam relating his experience about how he was stuck in an airport for 24 hours. I thought he was going to go into how terrorism affects everybody, including law abiding yet pious muslims. That he was in fact a victim, albeit somewhat indirect, of Islamic terrorism. But no, he just mentioned that it was ok to eat non-halal (halal being the Muslim version of Kosher) food when in an emergency. Perhaps I am misreading, but I think he missed, perhaps avoided, the larger issue at hand.

Or maybe he was just really hungry.

On a happier note he spoke in bengali and I was able to understand him :)

meh

The woman I work for is not in her office, so I have some time to write some shit.

Yesterday, she came in and gave me the assignment of stuffing 200 something envelopes with two sets of stapled sheets. I look at this job as something to make some money in the month I have before I go back to college, but this gave me a chance to figure out a way to streamline this process.

As a result I had an assembly-line type process that, which allowed me to work with a speed that would make both German automakers stare in awe and give Henry Ford himself an erection.

I feel somewhat accomplished by this. I think this is what industrial engineers do; look at a process of some type and figure out, with the given resources, how to optimize it for cost-effectiveness. Or some shit like that.

This summer, I've also read quite a bit. I read books that I always wanted to, and not because I would have to write a half-hearted essay comparing the themes to early 20th century america.
Or whatever it is that we wrote in Lit class. (GO MR WEEMS)

A list of my reading:
The Odyssey
The Alchemist
A Scanner Darkly
The Namesake
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
For Whom the Bell Tolls (not gonna lie, a big reason to read this book was the metallica song)
The Sun also Rises

Currenty I am reading Dubliners, a bunch of short stories written by James Joyce. These stories paint a dreary, depressing, melancholy picture of early 20th century Dublin. So yea, I don't know why I'm reading it, but it's kind of interesting.

more to come later.

A post to start all posts

With the inception of this blog, I begin my second foray into this blogging phenomenon. I had a xanga, which my friend very dutifully signed me up for. Being the grateful bastard that I am, I have posted to it maybe 5 times. Perhaps it was because I was lazy. Perhaps it was because I lacked anything to write about.

My view of the typical blogger is somewhat...skewed. What comes to mind is a self-righteous, twenty-something, shove-my-ideas-down-your-throat kind of person. As with most generalizations, this conclusion came after very little thought.

Anyhoo, vauge generalizations of inter-web utilizers aside, I started this blog to escape the boredom of work.

After finishing Calc TA for EOF, I got a position at my mom's office, Huntington Learning Center. She works in the accounting dept, and I help out in marketing.

I can see future resume entries highlighting this career-changing event:

August 2006
Huntington Learning Center
Position: Office bitch
Responsibilities: Everything no one else wants to do.

My 1st day consisted of moving boxes, binders, files, and other random shit people find around their office but have no fucking clue what to do with. I am currently working on a mind-numbingly tedious excel sheet chronicling the number of enrollees from various towns and zipcodes.

As a result, I have become a master at the alt-tab function.

more to come later.

At the very least, very least, I get paid.