Work and play

I like my job at Element Fusion a lot. This past week Chad has been gone, which meant giving sole possession of the support department to me. Of course, I don't know all there is to know, so other people around the office helped out a lot too. I would have been very much up a creek without their knowledge.

But despite working for the biggest Internet development company in Oklahoma, I have come to realize that sitting behind a desk for the rest of my life is not what I am going to do. Even with this sweet setup here in the office (no cubicles; its all open rooms, Foosball table, leather love seat, PlayStation and big TV in the break room, unlimited supply of free coffee and free pop, being around geeks all day) I have come to realize that there is a lot more to work than sitting behind a desk. (Or, at least, there should be.) At times when the support email inbox is empty, I'll go take a quick walk around the office, or go to the window to watch people zip by in their oil-addicted cars on Hefner Parkway. (For instance, today, geese were just standing in the middle of Grand Blvd looking at the person in the car waiting for the goose to pass. People in Oklahoma must be morally against using horns because the car plus 5 or 6 behind it just sat there.) On lunch breaks, I love going outside to eat. I'll go over to the smoker's area and camp out for a good while and eat or watch the ducks in the lake. All this to say, I have come to the conclusion that my career will have to have some dose of ADD in it so I can stay sane. I'm lucky I'm working at the place that I do, as it allows me to take a few minutes to goof off if it means more concentration later.

On a completely different note, I have found that my habits in checking current events has spiraled out of control so much that I visit CNN.com so often that I catch the same stories on the homepage two visits in a row. I'd call this a little out of hand. I'm all for being educated about what's going on in the world around you, but I'm all read up on the freeing of the hostages held by the FARC in Columbia, the brother and sister that were reunited today after being separated by the Holocaust 66 years ago, the out-of-line comment that Jesse Jackson said, the iPhone and Apple having problems activating new iPhone 3Gs, etc. I could go on, but I won't waste your brain power to read any more. Over the 4th of July holiday, I was visiting Cheryl's family down in Temple, Texas. I took a break from current events that weekend, and I enjoyed my ignorance.

I've also found myself reading much more this summer. After my online MCS class wrapped up, I started in to reading books that have been on my shelf for quite a while, but have been untouched. Right now I'm working my way through God's Politics by Jim Wallis. It is an impressive book that really puts my political feelings into words that are surrounded by a Gospel framework. I encourage anyone to pick up this book and take a read. (I bought it for $4 in the B&N cheapo section, however I'm not sure if it's still listed there.)