Back at work.

[camwyn]

Have eased into the situation more gracefully than after most of my vacations and/or extended weekends, as morning was occupied by teaching CPR class. I'm very fond of teaching first aid, CPR, and so on; it's not all that hard to make it more interesting by jazzing the prerecorded material up a bit, and people tend to remember their skills better when you make them laugh about it first. I've been doing this since 1997, so I like to think I'm at least somewhat decent by now. I don't even mind having to debunk things like 'eat a piece of bread if you're choking' or 'the Heimlich maneuver causes food to flop out of your mouth and hit the table right in front of you'. Mrs. Doubtfire lived a lie - that sucker's gonna go a good two or three tables in any crowded restaurant. You're trying to get an entire lung's worth of air up against an object the size of a golf ball or smaller; what did you think was going to happen?

The computer stuff's a bit tougher to deal with, mostly because some of my co-workers are ESL and I can't always get clear information out of them without dropping my other work and going over to their desks. But that's okay, I'm managing anyway. My major problem, really, is that almost all this weekend had major knitting elements to it. Train ride into New York? Nearly an hour of knitting. Train ride home? Another hour. Bus ride to Philadelphia? Two hours of knitting. Bus ride home from Philly? Two and a half hours of knitting. Being able to knit and talk at the same time means that I get to keep my hands busy while hanging out with mountainspeak, and it means that I have something to do even when I'm just sitting around the house. Not being able to kill time that way at work during the down patches when I'm waiting for the database to return an answer is a bit aggravating. I'm a compulsive twitcher. If I'm not bouncing a foot up and down or some such, I like to be chewing on a straw or pen, or otherwise doing something minor, repetitive, and physical. Knitting turns the twitching urge off and does something productive, so not being able to do it means I'm back to the foot-bouncing. Oh, well...

Anyway, back to work. mountainspeak is in New York and I am sure she is doing splendidly. Now I must contact my remaining friend from Kean and ask what she is doing on the morrow.

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[mountainspeak.livejournal.com]

Cool. Glad to hear that work is going well today. I'm doing fine. Did the Empire State building and the Guggenheim today. The Guggenheim, in my opinion, is just plain weird. Then again, most/all modern art doesn't thrill me. I will say one thing; one of those artists has some sort of weird sheep fetish going on. I just /don't/ want to know. Only went because it was one of the things included in the CityPass I purchased.

[camwyn]

Cool beans on the ESB, and I've heard that about the Guggenheim. I have little to no interest in modern art myself, so my only real interest in the Guggenheim is the opening part of Men in Black where Wil Smith chases the guy with the double-blinky eyes up to its roof. Still, at least you can say you saw it, which is more than I can say - and I live here.