Friday, February 20, 2009

Why they make retreats


It has been alittle while since my last posting. I've been working. Now I understand what people mean when they say they've been busy. I never really understood that b-word, but I'm getting an idea of it now. Work seems to be such a time sucker. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, shower half-asleep, hope you look decent, and off you go to sell your time to some corporation. At least that's what I'm doing now. It's a one-of-a-kind business, but very corporate-minded if you ask me. One day you think you're doing so much, and crunching out so much work sitting behind a computer screen and on the phone for hours and hours.. then the next day they want you to do twice as much in the same amount of time! What?!
But I'm thankful to have work in this awful economic recession, I remind myself, and keep on working, making sure to use my 2 ten minute breaks and 1/2 hour lunch break. They have us clocking in and out with a device that literally measures each employee's index finger diameter to validate their identity. Crazy.
Three weeks in, five to go.
Last weekend was great, as there was a retreat at a camp that i was a camper and counselor at years ago. It was a post-college aged retreat, in which we sang by a fire, played cards and talked til the wee hours in a rustic setting. I wish there was a retreat every weekend to get away from the office come Fridays!

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