Friday, Feb. 11, 2005 - 9:51 p.m.

the surreal life

I started to question what kind of day I was about to have when I was making my way into the building this morning. Going up the steps at the loading dock, I reached for the entrance door, and then had to stand aside for the blanket-covered body on a stretcher that was coming out.

That was followed by a rather bizarre and surreal "meeting" with the director of finance for the facility, in which he showed me large spreadsheets with big numbers written on them, pointed out several things, did some math, and said some things. I think he was speaking English, but I'm not sure. I actually had to stop him several times and ask him what his point was. I *still* don't understand what happened.

And this was all conducted while I sat on a stool next to him, sitting in his desk chair, behind his desk so I could see his computer screen.

It had a lot of weird vibes about it, very strange in the power-position/body-language/exactly-what-are-situation-are-you-trying-to-put-me-in area. Odd.

Those damn finance guys! Do they ever say anything normal people can understand??

I think he might have been asking me to have my department do *less* therapy, or something....I don't know....we've been kicking ass since we started there at the beginning of January, and I spent about 2 weeks of January cleaning up the previous company's mess, so....I still don't get it.

Anyway,

the rest of the day was fine....good staff meeting, in which I got to acknowledge several people who are doing an outstanding job, then I got a few things organized and planned for tomorrow and I was done.

I'm working tomorrow to make up for not working Wednesday, and it should be nice to have some peace and quiet to get some things done. I'm actually looking forward to it.

Travis and I went out and had burgers at River City Diner and had a long, really good conversation. Sometimes married life can be so pedestrian, with it's knee surgeries, sick kids, bills, new job, work crap, and household chores, that it's tough to get to a place where conversation about ideas and non-concrete things is enjoyable. It was fun. I love that man so much. :)

Life is good. I'm going to have a bowl of ice cream, and sit on the couch for a while. Sorry we won't be at Ymir, but hopefully everyone will have fun and the weather will cooperate.

Kira is feeling better, too, which I am happy about. She determined that her illness was, in fact, a 'throat stroke', which she apparently suffered during the night sometime, and then had another one during the Brownie meeting. I'm sure you will all be thrilled to kow that she seems to be recovering from her grave illness rather well. ;)

Have a good weekend!

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