Expectations

Well, you know how sometimes things happen that sets a standard for all the events that follow...?

That unfortunatly happened.

This event itself is good, its just that now I'm going to expect the same standard and attention when it's not possible.

This is kinda like the first professional association meeting I went to which was in New Orleans. The meetings that followed hasn't been as wild and fun... It's still wild, but you can't beat your group of alumni getting thrown out of the bar due to actions of your former professor.

Attention, attention passreoijf, flight number boijsdofoje...

Ok, people who can't speak clearly should not be operating the PA system at the airport. Or anywhere else for that matter.

Oh, I remember the days while waiting for the downtown 1 train at penn, I'd hear, Attention paawsangehs...reowir25r9iyrorwieiurw downtown, ijrwoeijriwejrwoj 14th street.fdjlksjfdksljf uptown...

Which was the secret phrase that menant "Will all the commuters please rush down the stairs to get onto the express platform... NOW"

I guess my flight is delayed. It's still grounded in DC, my destination. I should be boarding now. Bah.

Everytime I fly I realize how rediculously inefficient the 'security' is.

There were two TSA folks when I got to the security check point that checks your boarding pass/ID to wave you through the screeninng/xray area. The girl checked me. Green light. There was another lady fumbling for her stuff in her bag (Why anyone would put their ticket or ID before all the security screening is done is beyond me). Anyway, since a TSA agent has checked me, I just walked around the woman.

TSA dude: Uh,... Excuse me!
Monkey: Um, she checked me...
TSA dude: Oh...

Isn't it comforting that two TSA agents that are supposed to work together don't know what the other is doing or have done when they are only 5 ft away from eachother...? Than there was the time I walked out of my plane and walked back in w/o being checked. Yeah, I was checked-in already but I feel like I shouldn't have been able to just walk right in.

*yawn* My body is shutting down. I urh, forgot to sleep last night and I currently seem to be unable to regulate my body tempearture so I'm FREEZING. That used to happen when I was on my 48+ hours of being up. I have no idea how I used to pull all nighters for days in a row, get by with 2 - 4 hrs of sleep for weeks on end. I don't think I can do that now even if I was being paid to do that.

I'm about to board soon...

Here we go again...

Dear State full o' big pharma,

An inch of rain shouldn't have caused GIGANTIC sharp rocks to be carried down a hill to be deposited all over the road.
I don't like having to take twice as long to get to work either. Oh yeah, and my ceiling is leaking...

Signed,

Rain Hater

Forte theft

The professional association I belong to sends out a weekely email newsletter. One of the events listed in this newsletter is a regional lecture even to get continuing edu credits. The lecture is for the generalists in my field... A talk on how to tap into a 'largely untapped income-source' That being MY nitch field. Income... eh? Of course earning our keep is part of the force behind working but most of us in our profession LOVE what we do. It's not just a 'income-source'.

I'm kinda suprised and very annoyed that the 'generalists' in my field are unaware of existance of my specialized profession. Sure there might be a thousand of us in the US, and that's stretching the numbers. Also, there are less than ten schools in the world offering the major. So we are not common...

I don't pretend I can do what the generalists do. In theory I should be able to, but my training was so focused from the beginning that I'm well versed in my own nitch sector but not so for the entire field. So I wouldn't think of doing 'general' stuff just to supplement my income. I'm not interested or comfortable doing so.

Lets just say the 'general' folks tapping into my field would be like a family doctor trying to perform a mirco-vascular limb reattachement.

There's a reason we 'specialists' go thorough extra training, have a board certification process should we choose to become board certified. We don't have to, but it shows you took an extar steps and letters after your name is kinda cool. ;-)
Granted, anyone can call themselves what I am, but the fact of the matter is the topics I deal with is something that most people are unfamilier and uncomfortable with. People's eyes frequently glaze over when I talk about the projects I'm working on. I'm sure most people's idea for researching for work doesn't involve reading the ACCP guidelines.

From the looks of it, others in my field that are local to the said event are attending it. I'm sure they'll set them stright... I hope. They'll be bursting some bubbles... ha.

I know I sound like a compelete snob but we are damned proud of who we are... :-)

Skinned crew

I was going to say skeletal crew, but my department isn't THAT barebones. We are operating with 2/3rd of the staff for a week. Granted, there's three of us, so only one of us is out ;-) I'm out the entire week next week. Hopefully no disasters ensue while I"m out with my projects...

I thought it wouldn't be bad but of course this is the week when the account directors come with all kinds of requests. I haven't gone a 30 minute block without some interruption. Grr.


Dear coworkers:

Please read the email before asking me a question to which the answer is in the email.
Look through the servers before asking me to find a file that is easily trackable.
No, that's not my department...
No, not that project, I know they are similar but those are two seperate structures
Bodily fluids are never cute, even on a baby


There's more... thankfully I don't yet want to rip my hair out, throw it in a pile and scream.

I hate titles.

There, I said it.

I hate thinking up titles for my blog posts.
I also didn't like how my real identity would not be too hard to figure out with my 'real' blog. So this one is here to post musings and other wholesome monkey randomness and is going to be my commenting account.

Paranoid? Yes.

But you would be too if all you wanted was a good gluteal cleft scratch and the human folk were taking pictures of you.