A co-worker stopped me today and asked, “Didn’t you go to [Conservative] University.” I confirmed that indeed I had. She informed me that she had gone there also. She looked vaguely familiar, but she wasn’t someone who really stood out in my memory. Then she said, “You were the girl who drove that motorcycle, right?” Again I confirmed that I was indeed that culprit. (Perhaps her identifications process was facilitated by the fact that I am currently ‘sporting/enduring’ a very similar haircut to the college crew-cut I had back in the day.) […don’t ask!] We chatted for a few more minutes and then parted ways.
Its funny, the things that stick in people’s minds; behaviors that seem unusual, hobbies or habits that stand out, moments in time that are insignificant to you, but may have been noticeable or even meant something important to someone else.
We are always making some impression in/on the world.
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And sometimes I find myself really surprised when someone recognizes me from a place in time far away. I know it sounds silly, but I sometimes feel like I’ve changed SO much since then that I must certainly APPEAR unrecognizable to others.
I can’t wait till this transition at work is complete. Right now it feels like I’m constantly shifting from icky stuff to FUN STUFF back to icky stuff THEN LAUGHING, HAPPY STUFF, etc.
It’s like going from freezer to fire to freezer to fire all day long!
I think I’m beginning to get professionally/emotionally chapped. Is there a Product™ for that?
C-Dawg has special skilz! As a treat for when she gets left in the house alone she gets this hollowed out “bone” with some peanut butter in it. So not only has she managed to recently manifest two additional hollowed out bones for her collection, from Only-God-Knows-Where, but I also caught her expertly chewing out the INSIDE of the bone so as to make extra room for the sweet creamy indulgence.
So as I’m making my transition over to my new position a funny thing has happened. (Currently, my old boss is somewhat unwilling to let me go, and my new boss needs me to hit the ground running, so I’m doing BOTH jobs for the time being.) One of the old projects I am working on requires input from a contact in my new department. It just so happens that contact is the person I’m currently replacing…so actually I am now my own liaison/contact.
I kinda expect to see myself both coming and going. And with the hectic pace of things for me at work right now it wouldn’t surprise me a bit.
