I'm back online and getting settled in.
Well, the move is over, and the unpacking begins. As is usual after a move, we find ourselves asking, "Why did we pack and bring THIS?"
We also have WAY too many books and magazines.
Work is going ok, though I still feel out of the loop, as I came into the job a week or two later than the students I'm supervising. Lots of little things: My keys were two weeks coming (I had to ask somebody to let me into my own office, which EVERYBODY seems to have a key for, but me), Purchasing power (the OU credit card must be issued at a training class only held once a month, and I missed the Sept. meeting 'cause the people who set these things up didn't start the process until too late. So, I have a grad student do all the shop buying of supplies.), Internet and Phone in my office (two weeks in for Internet, three for phone.), and I have a class to orient me on my benefits package next week. Stuff like that. Ah well, it'll settle down, but having a big show (Grapes of Wrath, complete with fire pits, rainstorm, rising rivers, a car, and about 18 locations) at the begining of the season just exacerbated the situation. One prof, on hearing a complaint about the first show being so big said, "Well yeah, and the last one is big too. And so are all the ones in the middle. It's just a big season."
Wife isn't handling the situation too well. Her meds have run out and is having trouble finding a doctor to renew them right away to a new patient. It didn't help that she told them, "I just moved down here, need to find a doctor, and need a renewal of my Vicodin and Valium prescriptions." One doctor told her that she doesn't prescribe psychiatric drugs. We just got cable hooked up. Cable, phone and internet all in one cable company. Though I think the broadband is only a free trial, since I didn't order it. We may get so hooked that we upgrade anyway. Up to now, though, Wife has been home alone with the animals, lots of boxes, and no drugs. Since she doesn't get out she's going quietly insane. No, wait, not quietly. We got her a trakphone too so she could stay in touch, and now she's addicted to texting me 20 times a day and wants to upgrade her phone to one like mine that flips open like a star trek communicator.
Now that I've showed her how to get online (via my laptop, which I now have to leave at home) it'll be a bit better. We take the weekends and go sightseeing around town.
Norman has a river running along the southern edge of town. There are no parks, no riverwalks, no docks, no river activities at all along this river. I really miss the good old Rock River. Crappy as Rockfords use of the river was, it was 10,000 times better than down here. There are a lot of little subdivisions which border the river. Canadian Shore, Riverside, etc. NOT ONE has even so much as a river view. The only road that crosses the river is the interstate going down to Dallas. Out of desperation, that's what we did. We got our first glimpse of the river. It looks a lot like the Platte River of Nebraska. A mile wide and an inch deep. It's basically a runoff for rain. Still, a riverwalk would be nice. The pics are up at my flickr site.
Ok, tomorrow is my re-scheduled orientation for my purchasing card. Should make GradStudent Dave happy. I'm sure I'll have a bunch of new stuff to rant about here in the near future.
We also have WAY too many books and magazines.
Work is going ok, though I still feel out of the loop, as I came into the job a week or two later than the students I'm supervising. Lots of little things: My keys were two weeks coming (I had to ask somebody to let me into my own office, which EVERYBODY seems to have a key for, but me), Purchasing power (the OU credit card must be issued at a training class only held once a month, and I missed the Sept. meeting 'cause the people who set these things up didn't start the process until too late. So, I have a grad student do all the shop buying of supplies.), Internet and Phone in my office (two weeks in for Internet, three for phone.), and I have a class to orient me on my benefits package next week. Stuff like that. Ah well, it'll settle down, but having a big show (Grapes of Wrath, complete with fire pits, rainstorm, rising rivers, a car, and about 18 locations) at the begining of the season just exacerbated the situation. One prof, on hearing a complaint about the first show being so big said, "Well yeah, and the last one is big too. And so are all the ones in the middle. It's just a big season."
Wife isn't handling the situation too well. Her meds have run out and is having trouble finding a doctor to renew them right away to a new patient. It didn't help that she told them, "I just moved down here, need to find a doctor, and need a renewal of my Vicodin and Valium prescriptions." One doctor told her that she doesn't prescribe psychiatric drugs. We just got cable hooked up. Cable, phone and internet all in one cable company. Though I think the broadband is only a free trial, since I didn't order it. We may get so hooked that we upgrade anyway. Up to now, though, Wife has been home alone with the animals, lots of boxes, and no drugs. Since she doesn't get out she's going quietly insane. No, wait, not quietly. We got her a trakphone too so she could stay in touch, and now she's addicted to texting me 20 times a day and wants to upgrade her phone to one like mine that flips open like a star trek communicator.
Now that I've showed her how to get online (via my laptop, which I now have to leave at home) it'll be a bit better. We take the weekends and go sightseeing around town.
Norman has a river running along the southern edge of town. There are no parks, no riverwalks, no docks, no river activities at all along this river. I really miss the good old Rock River. Crappy as Rockfords use of the river was, it was 10,000 times better than down here. There are a lot of little subdivisions which border the river. Canadian Shore, Riverside, etc. NOT ONE has even so much as a river view. The only road that crosses the river is the interstate going down to Dallas. Out of desperation, that's what we did. We got our first glimpse of the river. It looks a lot like the Platte River of Nebraska. A mile wide and an inch deep. It's basically a runoff for rain. Still, a riverwalk would be nice. The pics are up at my flickr site.
Ok, tomorrow is my re-scheduled orientation for my purchasing card. Should make GradStudent Dave happy. I'm sure I'll have a bunch of new stuff to rant about here in the near future.
posted by Intothelight4now at 9:15 AM
1 Comments:
sounds just like NAT. Two weeks!
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