Entries with tag "weekend"

I spent pretty much every waking hour this weekend reworking the photo gallery. What a sad way to spend my time off — doing exactly what I do every day when I am working.

It's interesting — even as I checked my watch and realized I had been sitting on my bed in front of a computer for 12 hours straight, it didn't feel like work. It was actually kind of exciting, and what kept me going was the desire to see the result. Perhaps it's pretentious, but it really did feel just like a sculptor must feel as he works. It was very satisfying to start with something rough and ugly and steadily refine it, seeing it take shape in your hands, and watching it slowly come to resemble what you have in your head.

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Yet another Saturday spent at work. I can't complain, because I do it by choice to earn days off for vacations etc, but it still gets tiring. Since tomorrow is Mother's Day, Luis suggested that I work half a day today and half a day tomorrow, so that Deoscoidy could take a few hours off tomorrow to spend time with his family. We ended up not doing that, but the idea is an intriguing one that sounds like it would make a nice regular schedule — one weekend, you work Saturday and Sunday for 5 hours each, and the next weekend, you get one day off (say Friday). That way every other week you get a three-day weekend, and the weekends that you work aren't TOTALLY consumed by work, so it is still kind of like a free day. Of course, there's also the possibility of just working one full weekend shift one week and getting a day off the next. Each has their pros and cons. I guess the ideal setup would be to be able to pick between the two each week depending on your plans for the weekend. Hmm, I might have to run that idea past Luis sometime...

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