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Been having a great weekend just milling about at my leisure. Doug's birthday cookout was Friday night. Saturday I ran some errands and finally used some of my parting gift from previous place of employment to buy some sandals and a few shirts. There's still money left on the gift card but I was a little surprised that it didn't go further than it did. In any event I'm glad I finally got a pair of sandals that will stand up to my abuse.
I randomly get asked about Twin Oaks every now and again. Rather than dwelling on it, deciding, planning, I've found it makes life easier just to put it out of my head. The flip side to that is when I do think about it there's a duality. Sure things are going well now. I'm happy with my job, it's summer. But conversely I know that work will slow down if not stop when fall comes and I have no immediate plans (save T.O., maybe) of what to do with myself. The waiting list is just as long if not longer at this point, and my name isn't moving up any father in the list as far as I know. I haven't heard anything from Bucket since my acceptance as far as status goes.
I do think though if I wasn't any closer to actual membership by fall, given how things are moving along at this point, I may be able to bunk with one my fellow visitor-on-list Oaker who is staying at a cabin near by in exchange for helping her out with her internet business, although I'm not sure how keen the population is on her doing that let alone another person. There seemed to be a split between people who thought there were too many people there and others who wanted to raise the population cap. Until the time comes though there won't be much use in me fretting over it.
In the mean time it would be nice to go and visit, but there is a bit of nervousness about that as well. I'd feel like a groupie to some extent, but that fear is probably unfounded. I'd like to go to the anniversary festivities but it falls at a bad time, a week before Kevin's vacation and in the middle of the week no less which would probably be alright with my boss but I don't know how much stress that would put on him and how much strain it would put on me financially.
Last week my boss had hired three people, one didn't show up period, the other two stopped showing up after a couple of days. The other girl that works with us got in some sort of argument with him (which was started by my boss actually and the whole thing became childishly escalated) so she was sort of fired, until he realized that he was having a hard time finding anyone else and he was in a crunch so they made up. O dramaz. Really the whole thing wasn't a big deal.
Tonight it's more grilling. Veggie kabobs, yum.
I randomly get asked about Twin Oaks every now and again. Rather than dwelling on it, deciding, planning, I've found it makes life easier just to put it out of my head. The flip side to that is when I do think about it there's a duality. Sure things are going well now. I'm happy with my job, it's summer. But conversely I know that work will slow down if not stop when fall comes and I have no immediate plans (save T.O., maybe) of what to do with myself. The waiting list is just as long if not longer at this point, and my name isn't moving up any father in the list as far as I know. I haven't heard anything from Bucket since my acceptance as far as status goes.
I do think though if I wasn't any closer to actual membership by fall, given how things are moving along at this point, I may be able to bunk with one my fellow visitor-on-list Oaker who is staying at a cabin near by in exchange for helping her out with her internet business, although I'm not sure how keen the population is on her doing that let alone another person. There seemed to be a split between people who thought there were too many people there and others who wanted to raise the population cap. Until the time comes though there won't be much use in me fretting over it.
In the mean time it would be nice to go and visit, but there is a bit of nervousness about that as well. I'd feel like a groupie to some extent, but that fear is probably unfounded. I'd like to go to the anniversary festivities but it falls at a bad time, a week before Kevin's vacation and in the middle of the week no less which would probably be alright with my boss but I don't know how much stress that would put on him and how much strain it would put on me financially.
Last week my boss had hired three people, one didn't show up period, the other two stopped showing up after a couple of days. The other girl that works with us got in some sort of argument with him (which was started by my boss actually and the whole thing became childishly escalated) so she was sort of fired, until he realized that he was having a hard time finding anyone else and he was in a crunch so they made up. O dramaz. Really the whole thing wasn't a big deal.
Tonight it's more grilling. Veggie kabobs, yum.