busy life, new work assignment, march madness
Another busy few weeks between posts, mostly been bogged down at work wrapping up some things here and there and everywhere. I ended up trying to beat the clock showing up a few hours earlier than usual, catching the 1st or 2nd train into the city, and staying a few hours later, it became a new paradigm for me to leave and get back home in darkness. At least I’m fortunate enough to have a cubicle next to a window, otherwise I wouldn’t see the sun at all these past few weeks.
Looking like on this new assignment, there will be some travel in store, a welcome change of pace from the past year or so long job that I’ve been assigned to. I say this even though I was never much of a fan for work travel - true, its nice to be able to go to far away cities on your employer’s dime, but really, you end up working most of the time anyway, and don’t really get to see much or experience much of the new city that your visiting at all. Since I started working full time after grad school, I’ve only been on a handful of trips, and my memories of them were all very productive, but also busy, sleep deprived, and jet-lagged. Adding to it, the places I was traveling weren’t your usual destinations, kind of off the beaten path, which meant there really wasn’t much to do during the free time that I did have after work.
Plus theres this challenge of juggling night classes, the way I have them lined up this semester is all stacked on two days, so if I have to miss a day for work, it means I have to make arrangements for 3 classes all at once. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep the missed days to a minimum. I’m also finalizing my last handful of classes for the next year or so, still can’t believe that I’m almost done with this degree.
Meanwhile march madness is in full swing, Badgers are back in the big dance, after winning both the Big Ten regular season, they dominated the Big Ten tournament and got a 3 seed in the Midwest bracket of the NCAA. I have a feeling that they’ll go a lot farther this year with the big man center back in commission. Last year they were pretty tough, but had injuries down the stretch, ended up getting upset by UNLV in the second round.