Michelangelo sibyl from the Sistine Chapel

 

rigel on the horizon

Somehow I had let the emotions of other people at work affect me for most of last week and I was determined to put that all behind me today. Actually the whole mood of the department has been slowly changing over the past few months and it wasn't until now that I let it get to me. At first I had the post vacation high of my trip to null the effects, but that seems to have disappeared. Suddenly with the end of summer coming up, everything has become more and more serious around me and I couldn't stop it. I knew that I needed to put some distance between all of the negativity of work and my personal life before it got any worse.

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Recently my parents have been having problems with their computer and I was willing to devote my entire day to fixing whatever was wrong with it. Naturally it not only took longer than I had imagined, but it also started to push my stress level back up. All that I want to say is that I hope that they think twice before installing more pirated software that my brother gives them to use.

While I was there I got to see all of their new toys that they bought a few weeks ago. Both my mom and dad have new cars and so does my sister. This of course means that I'll have to buy a new car soon to keep up with then, but I think that that can wait until next year. Today was the first time that I had seen any of them and I think that they all made good choices.

I also heard some talk of my parents wanting to have a new house built. They've lived in the same house for last sixteen years and part of me thought that they might stay there a little longer, but things change over time. It'll be sad to see them leave where they live now, but I guess that they probably don't need as much space as they used to when all of us lived there.

Before I left my four year old niece gave me a drawing to take home. Now I'll have to keep it and show it to her when she's fifteen or eighteen and see what kind of reaction that I'll get.

 
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