...procrastinating

Here's a new website for you to check while bored at work:

FAIL BLOG: http://failblog.org/

entertaining? yes!
work appropriate? ehhh..
totally worth it? YES!

...overworked

I've been at my new job for 2+ months now and overall it's been a rewarding experience. Some days it feels like I've been there forever and others, I feel like i'm the new kid again. This keeps the work interesting and exciting but on the down side, it definitely enhances my insecurities.

For the first month of my job, it was a lot of stress, frustration and not knowing what the hell was going on. There was a complete lack of good management or any meaningful guidance which created an almost hellish environment. There were not too many late nights, but there was a copius amount of clueless/confused looks and just trying to get through the day without seeming completely retarded. The second month of my job was a drastic improvement from the first. I had a team to work with and people to share the stress and frustration with. I was also in a much better position to be learning and asking questions about how things should be done. Downside was that the workload was immense and the work hours were abysmal (70+ hour weeks). And as my friends know, I was pretty much MIA for that whole month.

Now as the 3rd month begins, I'm not completely sure what is going to happen. It seems like a lull in the workload but looks are always deceiving, especially at my company. Being on a very unexciting project, at least one I find very unexciting, is making me eye everyone else's projects with envy followed by sighs of disappointment. As you can imagine, it's not exactly the most driven or motivated attitude to be having.

UPDATE: I got more detail about my project: a general timeline (deadline) and a general feel for the expectations for the project. Still not feeling terribly positive about this project....

...wise?

This morning I woke up to a pleasant aching at the top right edge of my gums. It actually took me a few minutes to realise that the bumps protruding from my gums were not normal but were in fact the beginnings of a wisdom tooth.

At the end of high school and beginning of college, most of my friends went through the whole wisdom tooth thing. The nervousness, the dreaded surgery, the cotton ball mouth, the days of speaking with a lisp and the days of eating liquid food. Back then, I laughed at their misfortune, wearing my lack of dental development like a badge of honor. NOW, it looks like I might have laughed much too soon. It seems fitting that now that I have a job that I need to communicate coherently for, enjoy eating real food and have really no time to schedule for oral surgery, that I have a wisdom tooth coming in.

Asking the advice from a few of my friends and coworkers, they laughed first...then asked "do you have room for the tooth?" Upon getting asked that question, I always flash to the years of painful orthodontics (getting 4 teeth removed & braces) that I had to go through in order for my teeth to look the way they do. But I answer "no, I don't think so." To which they reply, not with words, but a pained look on their face expressing their silent apology.

I wasn't terribly worried before, but after 3 of those faces, I got increasingly worried. So I wikipedia'ed it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_tooth
According to wiki:
-Wisdom teeth are removed for cleanliness, crowding, alignment, and pain issues. (fun)
-Complication of the oral surgery include:
- bleeding/oozing (I'm a huge wuss when it comes to blood..hence why I'm NOT a doctor)
- dry socket (ew)
- swelling (I'm imagining myself moonlighting as a chipmunk)
- nerve injury (this one I'm actually worried about)

I also found some great pictures of an oral surgery online: eep!