Sticky

The humidity outside is killing me.  Above anything else for me, that’s probably the biggest downside of living in a house without air conditioning.  I can handle hot, and enjoy cold, but humid is where I draw the line.  I felt like I was tossing and turning all night – I wanted to wake up early this morning anyways, but I rather have sunlight as the instigator, instead of sticky moisture.  Oh well.  We’re supposed to get a little colder this weekend, so hopefully that’ll fix my problems.

This afternoon starts day 2 of my seven day work marathon at REI.  I don’t really like working that much, and I start getting antsy if I’m at my current workplace too much.  I’m a block of cheese, and REI is the grater – around day 4, I’m pretty much finished.  To top it all off, I’m pretty much only scheduled in the evenings, like 1:00pm to 9:00pm, despite my frequent protests.  I’m a morning person, and after about 7:00pm the only thing I’m capable of doing well is drinking beer and socializing.  I wish I could work 8:00am to 4:00pm, or even an hour earlier; they’d squeeze so much more work out of me.

I want to make my own schedule.  I’ve been brainstorming a few simple business ideas, just something to keep me lightly entertained and awake at the workplace.  The job search is still continuing slowly, but I still really don’t know what position I want to fit myself into.  I recently saw a posting at UT for a physics research assistant, at the FERMILAB particle accelerator in Illinois.  I want to go smash atoms, but I lack the Ph.D. and 10 years of experience in high energy physics.  The sad thing is, in the last month of job searching, that’s the only posting that really jumped out at me.