Getting used to new things
Jun. 15th, 2006 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talyen(An excerpt from an email to a friend)
I work 7:30-ish to 5:30-ish. My job is to plan work for two groups of people, and to work toward setting the direction for those groups, and to try to figure out how to set the measurements for performance for those groups. The two groups each have two people right now, and we're looking to hire at least one more. I attend meetings almost all day, Monday - Friday, regarding IT projects for the hospitals that are part of the group down here.
When I leave work, it's a short hop home, even in Cincinnati city traffic, because I live 1.5 miles from my parking lot at work. I've biked, but I need the car in case I have to drive to another hospital for a meeting.
After work, I'm still getting stuff done for the apartment. My landlord might stop by, or I might have to go get something like food. Tonight should be the last day for that, and I should be able to start running in the evenings now. The other thing I do right after work sometimes is drive to Lisa's house. That can feel like a nightmare - that's the rush hour traffic thing, and she lives 25 miles away. It's like driving between Ann Arbor and Dearborn, I imagine. A parking lot: it can take 35 or 60 minutes instead of the 25 minutes it takes any other time of day.
I've also done fun things: I went to a Reds'/Cubs' game (the Cubs lost). I went to an Agatha Christie play. I went to Cincinnati Pride with L and my next door neighbor. I saw The DaVinci Code at the art cinema down the street from me with W.
Last night was the first time I'd ever sat at my dining room table and eaten dinner (it was rice noodles and parmesan). Tonight I used the oven for the first time: I made nachos in the broiler. Tomorrow my plan is to use the oven and make strawberry-rhubarb pie which I will share with L and my next-door neighbor Margaret.
This Sunday should be a good weekend to go to church: we should be in town, and I've run past it now so I can find it.
I'm catching up on emails, and starting to feel like I really live here. I am even finding time to read a book tonight! I am reading fiction. It's a young adult novel by Patricia McKillip (fantasy genre) called "The Sorceress and the Cygnet" and it's good. I like a story that is really a fairy tale, even a made-up new fairy tale, and that's what this seems to be. I'm about half-way though. I borrowed it from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nubianamy.
I think once I go to the church that I'll find volunteer opportunities. I miss having projects. (: And the women's chorus has auditions in September, so I'll meet more people then. It's hard to meet new people in the summer, since so many things stop right about then. The sci-fi club has bi-monthly meetings, usually Satuday nights, and I hope to make one when Lisa and I are in town.
And once I feel more settled, no doubt I'll have a routine of emailing, LJ-ing, running, shopping, etc. Now, though, just having to go to the credit union that takes deposits, or the Whole Foods-equivalent, is a 15 - 20 minute drive without traffic! And it took me until yesterday to find one that was in a part of town that I can drive the whole way whether it's dark or sunny out (because of the neighborhood, not because I get lost). Route-finding is still an important art, too.
Anyway, that's the status for now. Thanks for reading!
I work 7:30-ish to 5:30-ish. My job is to plan work for two groups of people, and to work toward setting the direction for those groups, and to try to figure out how to set the measurements for performance for those groups. The two groups each have two people right now, and we're looking to hire at least one more. I attend meetings almost all day, Monday - Friday, regarding IT projects for the hospitals that are part of the group down here.
When I leave work, it's a short hop home, even in Cincinnati city traffic, because I live 1.5 miles from my parking lot at work. I've biked, but I need the car in case I have to drive to another hospital for a meeting.
After work, I'm still getting stuff done for the apartment. My landlord might stop by, or I might have to go get something like food. Tonight should be the last day for that, and I should be able to start running in the evenings now. The other thing I do right after work sometimes is drive to Lisa's house. That can feel like a nightmare - that's the rush hour traffic thing, and she lives 25 miles away. It's like driving between Ann Arbor and Dearborn, I imagine. A parking lot: it can take 35 or 60 minutes instead of the 25 minutes it takes any other time of day.
I've also done fun things: I went to a Reds'/Cubs' game (the Cubs lost). I went to an Agatha Christie play. I went to Cincinnati Pride with L and my next door neighbor. I saw The DaVinci Code at the art cinema down the street from me with W.
Last night was the first time I'd ever sat at my dining room table and eaten dinner (it was rice noodles and parmesan). Tonight I used the oven for the first time: I made nachos in the broiler. Tomorrow my plan is to use the oven and make strawberry-rhubarb pie which I will share with L and my next-door neighbor Margaret.
This Sunday should be a good weekend to go to church: we should be in town, and I've run past it now so I can find it.
I'm catching up on emails, and starting to feel like I really live here. I am even finding time to read a book tonight! I am reading fiction. It's a young adult novel by Patricia McKillip (fantasy genre) called "The Sorceress and the Cygnet" and it's good. I like a story that is really a fairy tale, even a made-up new fairy tale, and that's what this seems to be. I'm about half-way though. I borrowed it from
nubianamy.I think once I go to the church that I'll find volunteer opportunities. I miss having projects. (: And the women's chorus has auditions in September, so I'll meet more people then. It's hard to meet new people in the summer, since so many things stop right about then. The sci-fi club has bi-monthly meetings, usually Satuday nights, and I hope to make one when Lisa and I are in town.
And once I feel more settled, no doubt I'll have a routine of emailing, LJ-ing, running, shopping, etc. Now, though, just having to go to the credit union that takes deposits, or the Whole Foods-equivalent, is a 15 - 20 minute drive without traffic! And it took me until yesterday to find one that was in a part of town that I can drive the whole way whether it's dark or sunny out (because of the neighborhood, not because I get lost). Route-finding is still an important art, too.
Anyway, that's the status for now. Thanks for reading!
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Date: 2006-06-16 06:33 pm (UTC)Don't forget Midwestcon next weekend!
http://www.cfg.org/midwestcon/
The only time I saw a car get biffed off the road was in Cinnci.