The internet has been down here for a couple of days. Just tried again and got connected, but I don't think it'll last much.

It all started two evenings ago, when it *gasp* RAINED here! With thunder and lightening and everything! I hear it does that a bit in January most years, but it was still a strange feeling. And then a strange feeling that rain is a strange feeling.

This place really does go nuts when it rains, though. Puddles and ponds everywhere, folks who you'd think were driving on snow for the first time in their lives, the way they have to try so hard to turn on their wipers and get so different driving than the usual speed demons and crazy folk. So it was strange. It was all weird out tonight like it might rain again, or it might be sand, or it might be fog, or it might even be smoke. We'll see, I guess. I kinda wished when it was raining that it was late at night and I wasn't in the middle of a movie and I could've just curled up and gone to sleep to the sound, but then, it wasn't a very long storm anyway.

Work hours just keep getting longer and I don't go home because of reaching a good stopping place anymore, I go home because I can't see straight and I start spelling everything wrong and all that... so I now know for real why my predecessor seemed like a slacker, and it was because she'd been trying to juggle the greater part of these taskings all by her lonesome for three years, and it just can't be done. I have my supervisor, once he gets back from leave, but for her time here it was only her..... of course, there are also a lot of jobs that are new since I came on board, but overall it's a lot of work and more than one person could possibly do for more than a week. It's been several weeks now that our office has been particularly busy while also in the middle of holiday leave periods and all. I'd like to say that sometime not toooooo far away, it'll be normal, but I dunno... I'm still so busy trying to proove that one really bad supervisor wrong about not being able to give good customer service, but I am also learning a lot about not being overly thorough or answering too many questions that haven't been asked (like, "hey, did you want a sandwich for lunch?" "no, and I also didn't want a plate of speghetti or mashed potatoes, but maybe I could be interested in some ice cream or meatballs".... "umm.. ok, I was just gonna run to the deli and thought I'd see if you wanted a sandwich... but I guess not, so, yah.. there...") and other methods of not being quite so busy when I can help it......

So that's been my week or my month or ... well, my whole year so far I guess. I cannot believe it's already 2008. That's craziness.