it's a typical slow friday afternoon up at work, so i felt like i could blow some time with posting.

fridays are just weird here. i mean i dunno how unlike other jobs our fridays may be, but they're completely different from every other day of the week. it has to be like at least 2/3 of the employees are gone by noon, cuz most of our folks are guys in their 50's and shit that typically work 9-10 hours a day, so they're up on hours by friday and don't stick around very long, if they come in at all. so basically you're left with all the young folks who don't bother to work much more than 8 hours everyday and the really important management types that can't afford to take a day off.

everybody's dressed down, in jeans. i pretty much wear jeans everyday so i typically go the extra mile and wear a hoodie or t-shirt to be extra casual, heh.

i don't think i've ever really seen anything monumental get done on a friday. if something did, it prolly wasn't me that did it, that's for sure. especially on a day like this where most of the people i work with aren't even here, so what good does it do me to do a bunch of work that won't even be noticed immediately anyway?

it's funny having a job where some days you can come in and 8 hours later you literally haven't talked to anybody. that's kind of the problem with working in a big giant corporate defense company, everybody's just too strict. i mean sure some days we can goof around some like any job, but it's not really all that social up here, which is kinda depressing at times.

i think that's why i take my own personal music organization pretty seriously. cuz on average i prolly spend 5-6 hours of everyday with headphones on, kinda keeps me from going crazy. in some ways it's kind fun to rip some cd's the night before and play them the next day, sorta rediscovering a forgotten album or something.

it's a double-edged sword, cuz you wanna be here cuz you can get away with not working your ass off, but you don't wanna be here cuz it feels kinda lame being here when nobody else is, heh. and with how shitty i am at getting here properly everyday, i get stuck being here later than everybody else. it's a work-in-progress, i guess.

let the weekend begin.

--j