When I Was...

Today was sort of chaotic.

I got in from New Brunswick (read: Rutgers) at about 2:30 this morning. I went to my office, because I forgot that I actually had a home. I only spent a little over an hour catching up on paperwork before I booked back to my apartment and reveled in the fact that I now had internet and cable.

I couldn't sleep. So at 6:30 when I was supposed to be at work I was sitting on my wrong leather couch playing Hot Shots Golf on PS2. Then at 8:00 just as I was deciding to reinstate half day Wednesdays and spend all morning jerking around I got tired. So I took a two hour nap, showered, shaved and got to work around 11:00.

Oddly enough things didn't go that badly. I had an hour meeting with my insurance agent about how I could stop my people's healthcare from being cancelled, dealt with an error from a district which will cost me essentially several thousand dollars, dealt with an error from payroll that underpaid one employee (who barked loudlywhen she got her check) and overpaid several employees (Funny, they didn't say anything when they got their checks), found out my missing mechanic has been in jail for the past four days, and the day went on and on.

So here's the thing. None of it really got to me. I had other shit on my mind.

Last night I sat in (or stood in) on the SCRU meeting and got a chance to see some people I haven't seen in awhile. I was proud of all the progress they made, they have something real good going.

Last night was an eye opener for a few reasons. I didn't say goodbye to the SCRU people last year. I really just couldn't bring myself to do it. I just skipped the last meeting completely. I went to the Olive Branch and knocked back a few doubles instead. It was good to not have to go through saying goodbye, but it was also good to get to see everyone again. But that got me thinking...there's a whole list of people I would really like to see one last time. I've actually managed to run into a few of them, a post good-bye good-bye if you would. But there are still so many more. So many more I would kill just to get to see one more time.