I set fire to the rain

Photos courtesy of Nicole Bush :)

Updates:

Work has taken a surprising turn for good, my obsession for kindling has been taken to a new level, and came incredibly close to stalking someone on the way home from work. What a week, lets start from the top:

When you sign on as a contractor, or really any temp job, you know that you will most likely end up at the bottom of the proverbial work pile.  For the last couple months this has meant a relatively mundane week highlighted by midday running sessions and enlightening lunch conversations. Revising my resume and Linkedin profile as well as sending various emails to friends of friends that might know of someone who is in my career field has become somewhat of a supplement to the work I am given on a daily basis. I had resigned myself to the fact that this would most likely be the norm for the rest of the year and have been actively finding ways to continue to exercise my brain and other skills so that I can be ready when my time to work within my field will come. However, I was taken aback by a simple question posed to me by one of my supervisors on Friday, “So what do you WANT to do here?”  After recovering from shock at not being given another spreadsheet to add to, we ventured into a conversation of how I could become more involved with projects closer to my passion, even though neglected third world diseases can seem like a far stretch from the regulatory department of animal health there is some strange overlap. Success!  

Now, although I am probably running consistently more mileage than I ever have before, I am not sleeping consistently more. I blame the kindle.  I cannot tell you the number of times I have literally fell asleep with it clutched in my hands, just to wake up in the morning cursing that I wouldn’t get to be able to find out what happens next until a break at work.  Incredibly addicting little buggers, I have read 6 books so far this year and am currently about halfway through the 7th. So potential kindle buyers, beware.  It will make all that lovely ideal running recovery sleep very difficult, you will have to work extra hard to get that 8 hours.

As for the stalking, it was a fleeting notion and very minor at that.  Coming home from work one day I pulled behind this cool subaru at a stoplight.  I have noticed them a lot recently because it’s the type of car I have been shopping around for myself.  Cute little sporty things that go forever and have a decent enough back to sleep in or throw your bike in, what more could you want.  Anyway, as I was checking it out I noticed a “Live Simply” bumper sticker.  “Yesss, this person could be a cool dude/ dudette,”I thought to myself as the light remained red. But just as I was trying to figure out if the driver was a he or a she, a South African flag magnet on the bumper caught my eye. Oh goodness, this is my ideal Kzoo friend.  As I was pondering how best to figure out who exactly this person was, the light turned green and said person drove on, leaving me wondering what cool adventure they were heading to, and exactly how I came to posses such stalkerish tendencies. Oh well, anonymous driver, I think you are rad anyway.