Hello friend.
Oh look! I'm alive!
The few times I was able to update this past semester I complained about being incredibly busy. For that reason, I will not complain about that now. You know I was busy. Point made.
Other news, I bought an iPhone. Before you go all "You're such a hypocrite!" on me, you should know that I bought it because my old phone was kind of falling apart and the screen was having spasms and the alarms weren't going off anymore. I needed a phone I could count on, and being the Apple fan that I am, I trust the iPhone. You should also know that I lost my phone yesterday and didn't notice until my friend Rachel and I were leaving the mall because I don't compulsively check my phone every thirty seconds. Luckily a nice woman and her husband found it and called my mom, who called rachel and told me to call them to get it back. It's nice knowing that there are still good people in the world.
I've established that I am too efficient and obsessive-compulsive for Sikorsky.
Yes, I'm back working at Sikorsky. I didn't mention that much during the summer because I was either working or hanging out with George. Also, I wasn't updating at all because at that point, this was still a private blog and I didn't want George to find it because I didn't want anyone I knew to find it and he easily would have been able to look over my shoulder and see it since we were kind of living in the same house for three months.
ANYWAYS...
I'm back at Sikorsky, which is both a good and a bad thing.
Working is good. It gets me money, which helps me pay for things, like food for both myself and Hedwig, and my phone plan, and my car insurance. You know, that stuff.
The bad thing about Sikorsky is that I'm kind of obsessive-compulsive when I'm working on a project. I like for things to look perfect and neat and whatnot. Understandable if you ask me. Especially in a professional atmosphere. Unfortunately, not everyone at Sikorsky agrees. For the past three days I've been working out of a 900 page document. It is incredibly sloppy and the page numbers in the table of contents are off and it's relentlessly given me headaches. I did the best I could to complete my project and get it to look as clean and professional as I could given what I had to work with. (Really though, you would expect that a group of engineers would be incredibly meticulous regarding the documentation of the workings of their helicopters.) Of course, I know of a way to get it even cleaner, but it would probably take me ages..
Which I might have time to do, since I am obviously too efficient for Sikorsky as well.
This week at Sikorsky is a week off. Most people aren't coming into the office. I, however, am a college student about to start paying for graduate school. I am working. My supervisors gave me work to do that they thought would keep me busy for the week. I've worked about 20 hours this week and I'm already almost done. I'm not quite sure what I'll do if I end up finishing my work with a day and a half to spare, which is what it looks like will happen. I guess I can go through and perfect my assignment. Make it look better than the document from which I'm extracting information.
Being incredibly efficient is kind of a drag. Should I just not work a full week and not get paid as much just because I can do the amount of work that would take some people 40 hours in 25? When I was working here this summer, it wasn't really a bad thing. I just got more assignments and got to work with more people. I guess it's only inconvenient when no one is here to give me other things to work on and if I want to work a full 40-hour-week I need to either slow down or take the extra time needed to perfect my work.
(I'm not at all trying to say that I'm better than anyone else at doing these tasks. I'm saying that the task that I was given for this week is big and long, and I just happened to figure out a way to work on it that was incredibly efficient for myself. I like getting things done and I like getting them done quickly so that my supervisors know that they can count on me. Sorry if you took any of that the wrong way.)
Now that the semester is over, I'm working on a lot of musical projects every day when I get home from work. Another should be popping up within the next couple days (fingers crossed). I did this one for Christmas. I hope you like it.
Right. I didn't talk about Christmas in here at all. Or about the Doctor Who Christmas Special. (Or should I say the WONDERFUL Doctor Who Christmas Special...) Or about how I've gotten my parents addicted to Doctor Who, especially my dad. Oh well. All topics for another time. You know, since I actually have time to update now.
Currently playing on my iPod: Sparks Fly by Taylor Swift.
If you follow my collab channel, allmadeofawesome, then you know that I adore Taylor Swift. This song never particularly stood out to me before about a week and a half ago when Kelsey told me that it reminded her of Anna and St. Clair from "Anna and the French Kiss" by Stephanie Perkins. I thought about it and listened to the song a few times keeping them in mind and it really is the perfect song for them.
Not to mention, this song and all of Taylor's other songs have incredibly relatable lyrics. Of course, everyone's situation is different, but it's always nice to be able to relate to someone.
