Sometimes you just get so busy that when you finally stop moving, it feels like the world is spinning. You know that feeling, right? How you just get used to the world moving at a certain pace and once you finally get to slow down and stop, things seem like a blur around you and you need to take some time to breathe and consciously will the world to fall back into order. Once things settle down, you see things you didn't notice in your mad dash from one activity to the next and realize that there are other things that need your attention, things that you may have ignored for the most part but now see perfectly clearly.
Yeah, my thoughts were pretty much in this area over the weekend and now I'm pretty sure of what I need to do. In some ways it may seem like a totally new direction and yet then again it could just be the natural progression of everything I've been working on thus far. I've always been one to think ahead and not just live from moment to moment - everything is part of a greater whole and contributes to a larger future of plans and objections, of goals both personal and professional in nature. I think it's this single-mindedness at times that saves me and keeps me moving forward despite all the crap life throws our way. It's just how I operate and I doubt I'm going to change anytime soon.
Today is going to be a light week for me and Cathy. We both don't have actual classes to care for and are devoting our time to side activities related to our preparations for our next activities - her new hire class and my script training all for next week. It gives us time to relax a bit more and have decent lunches instead of the rushed meals we've barely managed in the past weeks given our classes and our highly restrictive breaks. Yeah, just enough time to stop and smell the coming rain.
I only have a temporary desk to work from amidst the floor stations of a campaign I don't actually handle. It's no biggie since I'm among QA staff so I don't mind the company and I know that at least I have some level of privacy as needed. It's not like I'm up to some scheme or plot from my cube - I just don't want people see me chatting with folks back home, LOL. The joys of unblocked third party instant messenger clients and botched firewall jobs.
I wonder how this week is going to turn out? It's like we're nearing a particularly important junction and things are liable to change dramatically at any moment.
This just cracked me up to no end when I saw it in the paper today. 
