Yes, the Mary-Sue Workplace
Been a while since my last update. I've been busy with work, health and dance.
I passed three months at my new job aaaaaand couldn't be happier. This one's a sweet, juicy peach right to the core. I canNOT beLIEVE my luck on this one. My boss figured out my strengths pretty quickly and has been putting them to use, including assigning me to figuring out how to translate dry investment figures into visual forms (diagrams, charts, graphics) that Joe Average non-invester can understand. To do this, I've been playing with VUE, MS Visio, drawing tools in MS Word, and treemap functions. And I'm getting paid to do this! :3
I have very quickly become indispensible around there, particularly to my department. I'm also amazed at how well I fit in with my immediate co-workers. My officemate is as quiet and work-focused as I am, my boss is too busy to want a best friend, and everyone around me likes classical music and jazz too. My phone is dead quiet and I work uninterrupted, so I can really focus and get things done. I don't think I've ever been happier at a job.
I'm dancing again, although I hit a snag. I gained twelve pounds (I'm now at an appropriate weight and look healthy instead of gaunt and underweight :-P ) so I no longer fit my costumes. Soooo after the debt accumulated during my unemployment is paid down, I will be looking at purchasing a new costume. Meanwhile, it cuts into the number of performances I can do for troupe, unless it's a number in our Sharifwear.
But I did get to perform on the weekend! I was a handmaiden during our number at the "One: Celebration of World Dance" show, and wore a beledi dress on loan from teacher. I didn't *dance* much, per se - mostly my role was confined to standing in place and doing shoulder rolls and shimmies and dragging small children out of the way of the harem boys.
Yes, we had harem boys, a couple of buff young men on loan from the hip-hop troupe, in harem pants and baby oil. They got inspired with their role and brought with them a couple of fake palm-leaf fans from their troupe's prop box, and a silver tray and some grapes. Welllllllll teacher was so distracted by the nummy harem boys feeding her nummy grapes that she completely missed her cue! *LOL* Good thing she had us handmaidens to lean over and whisper "Uhhhh aren't you supposed to be dancing right now?" *LOL* Oh man that was hysterical. We all knew what had happened and we were all desperately trying not to crack up laughing, so we all had these huge grins (which looked good for the audience.)
And that's the news :-P
I passed three months at my new job aaaaaand couldn't be happier. This one's a sweet, juicy peach right to the core. I canNOT beLIEVE my luck on this one. My boss figured out my strengths pretty quickly and has been putting them to use, including assigning me to figuring out how to translate dry investment figures into visual forms (diagrams, charts, graphics) that Joe Average non-invester can understand. To do this, I've been playing with VUE, MS Visio, drawing tools in MS Word, and treemap functions. And I'm getting paid to do this! :3
I have very quickly become indispensible around there, particularly to my department. I'm also amazed at how well I fit in with my immediate co-workers. My officemate is as quiet and work-focused as I am, my boss is too busy to want a best friend, and everyone around me likes classical music and jazz too. My phone is dead quiet and I work uninterrupted, so I can really focus and get things done. I don't think I've ever been happier at a job.
I'm dancing again, although I hit a snag. I gained twelve pounds (I'm now at an appropriate weight and look healthy instead of gaunt and underweight :-P ) so I no longer fit my costumes. Soooo after the debt accumulated during my unemployment is paid down, I will be looking at purchasing a new costume. Meanwhile, it cuts into the number of performances I can do for troupe, unless it's a number in our Sharifwear.
But I did get to perform on the weekend! I was a handmaiden during our number at the "One: Celebration of World Dance" show, and wore a beledi dress on loan from teacher. I didn't *dance* much, per se - mostly my role was confined to standing in place and doing shoulder rolls and shimmies and dragging small children out of the way of the harem boys.
Yes, we had harem boys, a couple of buff young men on loan from the hip-hop troupe, in harem pants and baby oil. They got inspired with their role and brought with them a couple of fake palm-leaf fans from their troupe's prop box, and a silver tray and some grapes. Welllllllll teacher was so distracted by the nummy harem boys feeding her nummy grapes that she completely missed her cue! *LOL* Good thing she had us handmaidens to lean over and whisper "Uhhhh aren't you supposed to be dancing right now?" *LOL* Oh man that was hysterical. We all knew what had happened and we were all desperately trying not to crack up laughing, so we all had these huge grins (which looked good for the audience.)
And that's the news :-P