I think...

[derien]

I may have managed to properly complete and submit that job application. Finally. At least three times I got to about the third from last step and realize that I had made a mistake and had to go all the way back and start over. My eyes are burning.

Thankfully today was a lot easier than the last two days, so when I got home from work I still had some brain left to deal with this process. Tuesday and Wednesday when I got home I was so completely beat that I couldn't have. In fact, yesterday I ran a red light and then stopped at a green, when I was driving home - I was just so damned tired that I shouldn't have been driving. From teaching people. I only took on six people each day, but it was amazingly draining. By the end of yesterday I declared to one of my students that pretty much everyone here is the surly, argumentative kid in the back of the class. (He didn't take offense at that at all, although he stated that when he was in high school he was not argumentative - he was the one unaware that his pants were on fire. Literally, one of his classmates set him on fire. And then he got in trouble because he shouted.)

It makes me question my sanity in applying for this other position, because it's training stuff. Though it's working with Phoebe and the Training Coordinator (she is his assistant), so it's at a slightly higher level. Not to say it wouldn't be stressful, as Phoebe is pretty stressed, lately, but maybe with someone helping her she'd be less so.

What else... oh, yeah. Today was easier because I didn't have to teach, because we had to evacuate the building for a few hours and then work our asses off for a while processing hundreds of people who had been waiting. It was something different than usual, anyway. Made the day go faster. :) On our way out this evening someone suggested that we close the Checkpoint for a few hours every day and take a long lunch, because it wasn't really all that hard catching up afterward, and it was kind of fun. Of course it is the slow time of year. And no flights could go out. Minor details.

It's amazing how clueless people can be, though. At one point all the people had been requested to go to one end of the building, and a line of screeners were standing shoulder to shoulder to prevent anyone passing, and people blithely walked right up to the line and said "excuse me, I just have to go through." Er, no. Can't you guess we might be standing here for a reason? One guy came up and asked a Supervisor to go down to the coffee machine and get him a cocoa. "Sir, that part of the building has been evacuated. I'm not allowed to go down there." We're not supposed to alarm people, but when one guy asked me if there was a handicapped line for his mother I did say, "There's no lines right now. Right now we're all going to the other end of the building because it's safer down there."

But as of 8pm this evening I am on vacation. Much joy. :)

While I was typing this I got to listen to Eor on the phone with the condo seller's real estate agent, working out some stupid little problems/misunderstandings which could have kyboshed the whole deal. I'm glad that the RE has a brain in his head, unlike the seller, and that Eor can be very clear and explain himself well and yet make it obvious that he's not budging on things. :)

Oh, crap, look at the time. I'm so tired, and tomorrow is going to be a long three days. Goodnight. I might post again before we leave, but I have some things to take care of so it might not be coherent.

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[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

A certain amount of stress is supposed to be good for the mind, but I doubt sustained heavy stress levels does anyone much good. But I hope you get it and it works out well.

SEE YOU TOMORROW EEEEE!!