October 5--the cold old guy

[zyzyly]

I haven't written anything here for a few weeks. Work and school keeps me in a state of perpetual exhaustion. If I am not doing something, I am thinking about it. It's not really overwhelming, but it is a lot of work. I don't have much thought left over, but I do think about this place and the people I know here.

The weather turned cold this week, which is nice. I love the fall weather. The downside is that the air conditioning is still running full blast in my office, and it has been about 55 degrees in there. My hands were turning numb. Apparently when they brought in the portable AC, they had to disassemble the boiler to get it in, so now they have to reassemble it so we can have some heat. Anyway, I took a picture of myself sitting at my desk, wrapped in my Mexican blanket.

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That blanket is about 26 years old. I bought it in Juarez when I went to visit relatives in El Paso. I keep it in my car for times when a blanket is called for.

The other interesting thing about this picture is that it captures me a few months before I turn 60. This is not how I thought I would look at this age. I thought I would look like an old man. Haha, maybe I do.

Even though I am almost 60, I still have a subversive streak:

Comments

[basefinder.livejournal.com]

My work building manages to be too cold about 90% of the time, winter or summer. The other 10% it is uncomfortably hot.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Our office ranges between 55 degrees and 92 degrees. It's an old building and we will be moving out soon.

[kishenehn.livejournal.com]

Pfft. You're nowhere near being an old man. :)

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

awww thanks! I don't feel old, for sure.

[gracegiver]

Seems like you were 55 when I met you and you're still 55. I wonder what's with that.

[pinkroo.livejournal.com]

right?

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

I think I was about 50 or close to it when we first met in person, which I think was the time Hanna was down here. Did we ever meet before then?

Anyway, you look the same as when I first met you--what's up with that? :)

[thoughtsbykat.livejournal.com]

All you are missing is the sombrero. I can not believe that maintenance has not thought of a better solution. They have had all Summer to think of one.

You have been missed. I figured you have been very busy between work and school. Hang in there. Get some relaxation-down time in there too.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Well, the last solution was in response to my repeated complaints that it was too hot, so I guess I started it all. We will be moving out in the spring to some very comfy portables.

[cobaltika.livejournal.com]

60 isn't that old any more. even though the number sounds huge.
i think you look great. you ARE great!

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

thanks! Yeah, I don't feel old at all, other than my knees. I picture myself as some undefined age where numbers don't matter.

[fletch31526.livejournal.com]

When I was in college, the 1960s-era dorm could only be cooled or heated -- not both. So when we got the first southern blast of heat in the spring, we all sweated to death because the Physical Plant refused to make the switch to air conditioning until they knew the heat was there to stay. We had the reverse problem every fall. I always wondered why it was so hard to switch between the two. They way they made it seem, it took ten men and a team of oxen to make the switch over.

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

I've been overwhelmed between school and work as well, so that made me realize you hadn't posted anything recently, so I imagine you're still feeling that way too.

Mine is wrapping up. I currently have 5 assignments left for the semester, out of the 47 I started with.

I'm really hoping next semester is better. This semester was a full-time schedule, credit-wise, even though I'm on the part-time track. But I fear that just means that these were the easy classes (and, quite frankly, two of the three were way easy. Just, like you're saying, a lot of work. Constant deadlines). If it doesn't slow down, I'm not sure I can keep this up for the full course of the program. I'm really not doing the job I could be of either work or school.

Hope all is well for you.

[zyzyly.livejournal.com]

Your comment made me realize how long it has been since I posted. But yeah, school, work and everything else...

I kind of gave up expecting to do my best work for school, and do what I can given my time. No one seems to have noticed, lol.