2:33 a.m. - 07 September 2002
Late night thoughts
It's 2:30am and I'm wide awake. I'm thinking that the homemade mocha I had (read: regular coffee on top of a packet of hot chocolate mix) around 3:00 this afternoon is coming back to bite me in the ass. I napped for about two hours when I got home and I've been wide awake ever since. I read an entire book this evening. I've surfed the web for a couple of hours. I figured I might as well get some words out my wakefulness.
There's an event at the mall-ette tomorrow that I'm kind of excited about. The local chef that I want to talk to about being a personal chef is giving a cooking demonstration, so I plan to be there to try to either talk to him or set up a time to talk to him later on. The hospital is a big sponsor of the overall program, so the big high muckety-mucks I work for will be giving speeches at 9:30, but I don't think I'm going to be awake at that hour, much less dressed appropriately and present. Not that they'd notice and/or speak to me if I was there.
I realized today I've been in my new position for just over a month now. I still don't have enough to do, but I keep inheriting projects. Like the phone book. And calling the board members to remind them of meetings. And ordering supplies. I was given a brand-new project today, with a deadline 30 days from now, but it's something that will really only take maybe a day or two, depending on how busy the phone is. It tends to go in cycles: it'll be dead for hours, and then all of a sudden it won't stop ringing. Usually when I've just settled in to a nice long piece of fanfiction.
At this point, knowing that I want to go to culinary school, I'm not entirely sure I want to go back upstairs. I'd love the position, don't get me wrong, but it's not a 9-5 kind of job. There are a lot of early morning and late evening meetings which might make a nights and weekends program difficult. I don't know how flexible the people at school can be, so I'm kind of waiting to see how things shake out in the job department before I head up there for any type of interview with them. Plus I want to get a little more debt taken care of before I start applying for educational loans. Though who knows...maybe I'll get a scholarship. Do you think they have one for a five-year post-bachelor's degree secretary who majored in Biology, English and Religion?
