Im back...for the moment...

Now after a ten month or so lapse in writing I really am hoping to get back into it at a normal pace...whether that's possible or not is debatable but hell, so long as Blogger keeps my account, I still have a chance :)

I have been working for STUDIOS Architecture since March and I gotta say it has been every bit of a roller coaster...the first two weeks I was so excited and nervous for starting something completely new in a new place that I could hardly sleep the night before my first day. When I got to work, of course I was introduced to about 80 people, whose names I still can barely remember...after that it was orientation time...learning the secret codes for locking up the place and night and all that...then it was lunch time. A special lunch just for the new people...but was everyone coming out...nope...just me, the woman that hired me...and the other person that started that day who actually quit for two years and came back. I don't think that deserved a free lunch, but whatever. After we came back, I thought with all my years in the biz I would be thrown into the fire on a project that needed my undivided attention.

NOPE.

I spent the next two weeks sitting at my computer going through the tutorial for REVIT the hottest drafting software out there for architects and designers. It was the most painful time I have ever had at a job. Fo realz! after the first week i was ready to throw in the towel...but then I remembered...we just drove 2000+ miles for this...and we are broke...so I snapped out of that crap real quick.

Since then things have gotten alot better at work...I have a steady project, my PM is so concerned with leaving everyday to pick up her kids and take them to the next useless little league sport that she is always going at 100 mph which is crazy frustrating when you are trying to learn a new program with a very high learning curve, adjusting to life in a new city and state, learning the "STUDIOS" way and try to make new friends all at the same time. If you have ever had a manager like this, I don't need to say anything else. If you haven't, just thank whatever god you believe in and keep reading....

In a huge effort to make friends at work, I have taken up pretty much every offer for socialization that has been thrown my way. I have gone to the standing Friday lunches with the young kids...I say young because at 34 I'm sure I got a good 6-9 years on the anyone else in the lunch crowd. One of the principals threw a party at his house...so we went to that...his place is NICE! Makes me think that someday i could have such a nice thing...but then reality reminds me that it will never happen...and recently I participated in Bike to Work day...which is the last time I will ever do that.

The long and short of it is you are biking to work to save the planet one day of bad CO2 gases from all the cars and after work there are routes to take that with stops for water, snacks, free crap and good times. However when you work with people who really freakin' bike everyday to work and you say, sure I will break out my 800lbs mountain bike slap on my jeans and join you for the after work bike ride, oh yeah, thank god its has been the hottest week ever in SF and today its 98 at 5.30 pm...sign me the f*ck up!

We didn't follow the routes, there was no tasty treats nor water breaks...infact we were the only ones to go the direction we went...straight up the hills to the Golden Gate Bridge...across that bastard and onto Sausilito Island...I would love to say that the views were beautiful but for the little time I was conscious all I could concentrate on was surviving...I think the picture says everything.

And now Door #3:

There is a website that every person of color should check out and keep going back to...Brightness

Everything you ever thought about white people, is freakin' true...you are not a racist.

Enjoy,

DjD