T-minus 10 day's until Matt and Leslie get hitched!
Everytime I think about next weekend and getting to participate in the bestest couple I know's wedding I get all weird and giggly and introspective, kinda like that one time I smoked pot... before I threw up all over Leslie's garage ;-). but anywho, pumped for the event, was kinda hoping that I would have been able to drive there, but I can bill the flight to work since they are making me travel so I get to save miles on my dieing car AND save on gas money.
It's been kinda nice working in Hillsboro for the last while. There are actually other people working here in this office instead of just me and a reclusive designer as is the case lately in Boise. But I am realizing that I don't know how to talk with people any more. Ok, may be that is a little bit of an exageration. But I sit at work and listen to people ramble on for hours about this or that and I just want to scream at them, "get to the point and shut up." I can't imagine not having something to do at work and deciding to use someone elses time chatting about the weather, or cars, or women. If I don't have things to do at work, I just want to leave, call me when you have something for me to do.
Noell is an older electrical engineer here, a few years older than my Dad but acts like he is older than my grandfather, and I despise everything he says. Even when he is talking to someone else across the room I want to stand up and shout at him, "Can it you ignorant bigoted baffon. You can't speak Spanish, stop trying, I'm glad you had no daughters because your attitude towards women would have pushed them to prostitution or suicide, and I'm not surprised that son's behavior more closely resembles baboons of the Serengeti's than that of human beings."
But back to me not being able to talk to people anymore. I speak in these ridiculous awkward jumping sentences now. I will be in the middle of one sentence and start throwing in words from the next sentence that I'm formulating in my head. I'm not saying I was ever a great talker/speaker, but I used to at least be competently articulate. Now when a waitress askes me if I want the soup or salad I find myself saying thinks like, "Dressing soup what is today?"
Tomorrow night, our client (a german engineering firm) is taking all of the people working on the project on a river cruise dinner. I'm looking forward to it, and the first 2 drinks are free. I just hope deep and hard that I don't have to sit near Noell. Oh yeah, I've got some more pictures of my pup up on the picasaweb page listed below.
Oh yeah, for more pictures of my puppy and a few of me,
http://picasaweb.google.com/Jordan.Harpole
I just can't be bothered to put them up here ;-)
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
Robert Frost
Forgiveness is possible when you give up hope of a better past.
the doctor from Enterprise: "It would be unethical to cause a patient harm, but I can cause as much pain as I'd like"
"If you want to build a ship
don't herd people together to collect wood
and don't assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for the
endless immensity of the sea."
-Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
"Your computer has too much computer in it and not enough typewriter" -Strongbad
