A Weekend of Adventure
This has gone on long enough. I can’t stand it anymore. I’ve been terribly busy recently, and fact of the matter is that I need a damn rest. It’s true. Tonight, when I get home from work, I plan on doing NOTHING. No cleaning, no unpacking, no cooking….nothing. I am going to get home, and order some food and just hang out. I’ve been on the go all weekend, and I don’t even feel rested at all. Since waking up on Friday, I have had 12 hours of sleep (spread over 3 nights), and included in that was a full day of work, two train trips, a wedding, a nature walk, attending and photographing a mountain bike race, and multipul hours of driving around upstate New York. Needless to say, it’s been a busy week.
As for the rest of my life, things have been going fairly well there too. Last Thursday I had an interview at a large bank. No, I’m not looking to leave my job, the interview was to see if my job was going to place me on a project out there. Hopefully I will be put on this job and have actual WORK to do. I will finally be billable and be responsible for getting things done, and that will just be amazing. Since I left school in May, I have been responsible for getting so little done, it’s amazing. The position that I’ll be taking at the bank is doing data analysis and data cleansing. What that means is I am going to be looking at data source systems and determining what we need to do with the various bits of data to improve them. The job is located in Manhattan which is great, because it means that I can get there very easily on the subway and I won’t be sucked into traveling anywhere. The bad thing is that the job itself, in the long run has the tendency to become QUITE boring and I won’t be learning any new software. Where as in the position that I currently have on Long Island, I would be eventually learning about SAP BW, which is a hot product right now and would make me much more valuable. By the end of the day I should have a much better idea as to where I’ll be heading for the next few months.
As I mentioned before, I was supposed to be heading out this week (and last week for that matter) to attend Informatica training. As it turns out, because they are waiting to hear on the Bank position, they nixed the travel out to Chicago. Perhaps next week, if I don’t get placed at the Bank, I will end up doing the training. I’ll have to see where it’s being held and if it’s even a possibility. I am just lusting for some industry specific knowledge that will enable me to be a more productive and educated person.
This weekend I got to hang out with some friends of mine from high school, so that was nice. It was just fun falling back into old times and spending time with friends. We all got together for the wedding of our friend Jessica. The wedding was a good time, I, being the designated driver, was stone sober and still had a nice time, so I suppose that’s a testimate to a good wedding. There were a few things here and there that I would have done differently, mainly not smearing chocolate wedding cake on the bride’s face, but hey, that’s just me. Overall, it was nice to see friends all out and about and having fun.
This weekend is going to again be one of long nights of drinking as we are hosting a birthday party for Fran. Laura had a novel idea of throwing a “Long Island (iced) Tea Party”. I just have this feeling that by the end of the night, I’m going to be mopping up some vomit and it’s not going to be good. I just hope that the night isn’t too hot so we’ll be able to keep people outside as to only have to hose down the lawn from the pukers. I’m so optimistic sometimes it startles even me.
This weekend, my father and my brother participated in a 40 mile bike race up in Newburgh, NY. I went and took some pictures which I will be putting up in short order. Speaking of which, I’ve been a terrible person when it comes to hosting my other photo web page. I had all these grand plans for making it a nice little website photo-gallery kind of thing and as of yet, it just hosts one Flash Gallery of pictures. I think that is going to be a sober Friday night undertaking. I would like to really start to catalog my photo collection online. I think that would be nice. It’ll also help me to get a good grip on where all my photos are. Ehhh.. I think it’s more of just a project to keep me busy and not playing video games.