Since my last post I have been working part time as an Administrative Float, and for a while it was a bit rough. (Poverty isn't quite as glamorous as I remember it being...) Anyway, I'm working more hours lately, and I'm playing a unique role. I am in a position that has no actual responsibility attached to it, and yet, I find myself being one of the few people that actually knows what's going on. If there's a problem in an office, they send me. I have been used to fix problems, do specialized training, work in departments most people are useless in, all the while still taking jobs as a receptionist in-between. As a receptionist, I often get treated as if I'm useless, and occasionally I am. Its very tough to be in a position of needing to know the answers to the questions immediately your first day in an office. So, I feel as if I hold an enormous amount of information about what's going on in the inner-workings of the company while at the same time being one fax-machine fiasco away from the complete incompetence of an I Love Lucy episode.

In other news, I am desperately trying to re-kindle the artistic passion I really never had in the first place. I've always had the dream of it, though, and hopefully that will come back. Phillip and I still write an occasional song, but I have almost no creative drive anymore. At least I used to get sidetracked into little projects if not great works of art. I did write a tiny poem on the way to work the other morning. Here it is:

the soul asleep
within the words
holds patiently
for one to come
to turn the page
and set the vision free