perzephone | Balance Returns (Reply)

I opened up the back door tonight to hear cicadas. It's kind of a relief, considering last year the cicadas started in late May. El Nino has come back to us, bringing the seasons back into balance. It's starting to get blisteringly hot, right when it should be. It hit 120º in some parts of town yesterday, and it's humid on top of it, just like it should be. I bask in it leaving work - Rob parks in a metered lot a block away from the building when he's picking me up, so I get a short walk to the car. Today the air conditioner at work was audibly laboring to keep the place cool - we've got all the computer equipment, so normally we freeze, and it's nice to walk out of the cool dark basement into the scorching heat of July. Last year, though, I was walking into the scorching heat of July by mid-May. Not a good thing, especially since it didn't cool down til late October.

Boss comes back to work on Monday... hopefully I'll get a verdict on my future employment with the County soon. If her vacation was a test, I failed miserably because I spent two weeks on facebook screwing around with my coworkers. We received an updated Policy & Procedures notification that specifically mentioned 'facebook and other social networking sites' as being in direct violation of the P&P... but did that stop the intrepid FarmTowners of the IT Department? Noooooo. Ah well. I don't like this job. I've decided that I do not have a future in the exciting world of IT. I will probably be a pencil-pusher for the rest of my life, which I can accept. I am a very good pencil-pusher.