Nose to the (coffee) grindstone
I have now been with Survivor Corps for nearly three whole weeks. That’s three weeks worth of collared shirts, office coffee, and 8 hour days behind a computer screen than I have had during the rest of my life. That is certainly not meant to be taken as a complaint, merely a fact, and frankly, I enjoy the coffee (I think I’m averaging somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 cups a day), and there is a meditative aspect to this much time behind a computer screen (http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_90_of_waking_hours_spent); really my only problem is the collard shirts (I have an uncanny ability to wrinkle, or spill on any article of clothing more valuable than 5 dollars).
Fortunately my enjoyment of the office extends to the tasks I’m performing here as well; I’m just completing the beginning portion of my minefield mapping project, and have begun working on some development work so Survivor Corps can get a little extra dough and continue to thrive.
All of these projects are fantastically interesting; my only complaint is with Google Earth (gasp). Yes I know in some circles it’s almost blasphemous to say anything bad about Google (www.churchofgoogle.org), but I really have to say, it’s very frustrating if you’re doing something that takes more than an hour or so to create (END OF BLASPHEMY). Despite that sad realization, I really think that the maps have come out well, and may be used to make a legitimate difference. I’m currently working on plotting in the paths of Jesus, Moses, and Abraham to see how many minefields they would have walked across; stay tuned ‘cause my next blog entry should have an official count.
