The Rising
I have had an entry building up inside my mind for weeks now, but several things prevented me from putting fingertip to keyboard. While I feel somewhat bad for my new era of blogging getting off to such a sluggish start, I must say that I've ignored other websites nearly as well. First, I was intent on finishing the mammoth new King novel within a two week time frame because I'd agreed to participate in a long distance "media club" with a dear old friend of mine who moved away to Texas. Out of all my friends, he was always the one who matched opinions with me on nearly every album, book, TV series or movie, so being able to reconnect with my fellow Stephen King fan was the first highlight of 2010. We were set to read up to certain chapters, stopping on the weekend to write email book reports on what we thought so far and offer predictions for the coming pages. Due to the fact that I only had a few late nights to myself a week and my little one keeping me on my toes all weekend, I dedicated pretty much all of my free time to reading and didn't so much as sit in my computer chair. Last Friday night I finished it. Then things went down hill. The doctor called it "daycare-itus," but I called it the worst head cold known to mankind. All three of us were down for the count for well over a week and my poor little boy received antibiotics for the very first time in his 16 months of existence. On top of all that, my office began the process of relocating downtown and the mad rush to catch up work and prepare made the job all the more stressful. Add these things together and you get Tanya asleep by 9:00 p.m. every night. However, I'm back now... and I have stamps to buy, belated cards to send, a solid 20 emails to reply to... and of course, this blog to write.
The book that I just finished reading was called Under The Dome. Without offering up any spoilers, I can tell you that it was about a small town in Maine (surprise, surprise) that mysteriously becomes encapsulated by a dome of unknown origin. Unlike some of King's other stories, the monsters aren't so much supernatural entities, but rather human beings who begin to turn on one another after being closed off from the world and have taken sides. Remind anyone of Lord of the Flies? Well, take it a step further and throw in all sorts of adult authority and then guess how long it takes for people's civility to unravel. It was a suspenseful and riveting read... and on that note, I must say that real life is nowhere near as entertaining. About the time I embarked on my synchronized reading project, a fellow paralegal at my firm was promoted to "Head Paralegal". This event has become known in my very small circle (of just 3 or 4) as "The Rising". Since then, the laid back and independent atmosphere that I enjoyed so much has been threatened into extinction. I won't tell you how long it took for a fictional town in Maine to come completely unhinged, but I will tell you that it took my law firm approximately 3 weeks. It's been every employee for themselves lately and moving the office to a new building in downtown Orlando was the icing on the cake. Tomorrow morning will be my first commute with the additional 20 minutes tacked on and I dread the thought of the open floor plan I've heard the bosses raving about. Do I want to see my neighbor pick their nose and hear every word of every phone call? I miss my closed in office already... I'd even trade the new view of Lake Eola for my old one of I-4 if I could. Perhaps it won't be so bad. Perhaps I've just read SO much King over the years that I just expect "The Rising" to end horrifically with a massive death toll and bloodstained floors. Perhaps... but I've never witnessed any good coming from promoting from within just because a person has been there the longest and possesses no actual management training or skills, either.
The book that I just finished reading was called Under The Dome. Without offering up any spoilers, I can tell you that it was about a small town in Maine (surprise, surprise) that mysteriously becomes encapsulated by a dome of unknown origin. Unlike some of King's other stories, the monsters aren't so much supernatural entities, but rather human beings who begin to turn on one another after being closed off from the world and have taken sides. Remind anyone of Lord of the Flies? Well, take it a step further and throw in all sorts of adult authority and then guess how long it takes for people's civility to unravel. It was a suspenseful and riveting read... and on that note, I must say that real life is nowhere near as entertaining. About the time I embarked on my synchronized reading project, a fellow paralegal at my firm was promoted to "Head Paralegal". This event has become known in my very small circle (of just 3 or 4) as "The Rising". Since then, the laid back and independent atmosphere that I enjoyed so much has been threatened into extinction. I won't tell you how long it took for a fictional town in Maine to come completely unhinged, but I will tell you that it took my law firm approximately 3 weeks. It's been every employee for themselves lately and moving the office to a new building in downtown Orlando was the icing on the cake. Tomorrow morning will be my first commute with the additional 20 minutes tacked on and I dread the thought of the open floor plan I've heard the bosses raving about. Do I want to see my neighbor pick their nose and hear every word of every phone call? I miss my closed in office already... I'd even trade the new view of Lake Eola for my old one of I-4 if I could. Perhaps it won't be so bad. Perhaps I've just read SO much King over the years that I just expect "The Rising" to end horrifically with a massive death toll and bloodstained floors. Perhaps... but I've never witnessed any good coming from promoting from within just because a person has been there the longest and possesses no actual management training or skills, either.
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