February 23,2009 Monday

It was back to work after a somewhat stress filled and sleepless night (again) last night.

My mind was on the fact that I did not yet know exactly how or when I was needed to fill out a special form for summer financial aid for college, and I also had a dilemna regarding my on call duties this past weekend where I felt like the person who was supposed to repair a machine on Friday lied about even being at the site at all.

And, thus, I ended up taking the heat for the heat in the building not working. I thought long and hard all weekend on whether or not to tell the supervisor about this. I decided that I was going to, and at about 640 am this morning, I started pitching a wild bitch to my supervisor about the issue...and then I kinda felt like an asshole in the middle of the discussion. I hated being the guy who was in essence "tattling" on a co-worker.

BUT, then again...it was a bullshit thing he put me through by lying to me about the status of his (non) repair.

I did get it off my chest, and the supervisor was cordial enough to at least listen to me. Later on in the day as I went back to finish the repair, I learned the guy WAS actually there on Friday, which sorta made me a little more pissed and questioning WHY did he NOT finish the repair?

I am rambling here. There is a couple of things about my psyche that I have learned in the past few years.

The first thing is, I hate it when people do anything half-ass.

The reason is that if a person does something half-ass, there is always always always another person who has to come along, and usually under bad circumstances, and pick up the slack the "half-asser" left. That person is very occasionally ME. I get very annoyed by "half assers"

The other thing about my psyche is that I love to hate rules, and hate to love rules, unless the rule is "Thou shalt NOT half ass things!!"

In high school, I used to love to find new ways to skirt the "silly" rules put amongst me. OH you want me to wear a TIE on Wednesday? OK!!! I'll wear a leather tie...and wear it 3 buttons down with the top 2 buttons undone.
HEY!! I AM wearing the TIE...OK??? :)

But I have found myself to be different as I have a chosen career, where I get absolutely mad when a person does not follow, say a compressor replacement right to the letter. IF you skimp on stuff like that, you end up shortening the life of a very expensive air conditioning part...and create un-do strain on the customer and the next guy. So, it's a hard thing about my psyche to figure out....kind of lives in the gray area when it comes to rules.

Enough about that.

For lunch today, it was back to the college to talk to the financial adviser to find out exactly WHEN I fill out the summer aid papers. The financial aid guy was extremely helpful.

He explained that I must first register for classes (summer classes are not open yet..so I cannot register...yet) and THEN I come see him again and this is where the monies get dispersed.

I have been under loads of stress trying to figure this one out as I do not want to miss out on the aid and the student loan. When I am in the middle of a project, I like to see it through A-Z, and I like things to go faster than they have been going with the school thing.

I told the adviser.."This has been like a maze so far..."

He kind of chuckled " Oh, this is just THIS year...NEXT year, you will have a whole DIFFERENT set of papers to fill out...so just hang in there. I'll help you as much as I can with it."

The last statement was reassuring even if he was just trying to be nice, and my emails from the school regarding this have been answered in a pretty good time span, too. So, I know I am doing the right thing...I just need to take things a day at a time and quit losing sleep!!!


That brings me to tonight where I will watch Olbermann, Intervention, and Paranormal State.

A busy day, but not at all a bad one. How was yours?