Things I'm thinking about today

Things I am thinking about right now:

1. The big Training Manual presentation went well. Really well. Combine that with the other feedback I am getting, and this j0ob is a great fit for both me and the department I’m with. It’s been so long since I’ve felt like I’ve been good at my job that it’s a new, fresh feeling.
2. The novel stalled over the weekend, due to working a shift at the group home and some personal stuff. Back on it tonight, and will be done with the first chapter. Helen is a great character, and I love her dearly.
3. Just because I love a character in one of my novels doesn’t mean they get to live.
4. The school shooting today is a reminder that our mental health system blows, and I believe than in 100 years, people will look back on us, the same way we look back on Medieval barbers.
5. The Imus story has split along almost predictable lines. Right-wingers are using it to go after music they don’t like, left-wingers are using it to go after radio hosts they don’t like.
6. If Imus were in Central Illinois or Iowa instead of New York, no one would have said a damn thing.
7. Speaking of the shift I did over the weekend, I have decided that I will not be able to do the two job dance any more. I need two days off a week.
8. I’m not on AIM or other chat programs much any more. Not because I don’t like them, but because I have other things to do. And I like the fact that I have more to do in the real world instead of the cyber world.
9. I am enjoying blogging more now, however.
10. The inventor of a kind of soda with Anti-Oxidents will be a hell of a rich person.
11. Somewhere along the line, I became a person that other people see as calm and zen-like. People were telling me that a couple of years ago, but I’m now starting to accept it as who I am.
12. I was told Saturday night that I have a nice build and a great smile. And I didn’t say anything self-derogatory.
13. I find myself extraordinarily interested in other people lately and spent a lot of time asking what they think about things. I worry that I sound like James Lipton.