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The day goes much faster when my team lead is in another state and my manager is in another city and I can sit here and listen the NPR the entire day, except when I have to answer the phone on occasion. I could get used to this.

I've also gotten used to being told three days or less in advance when new hires are coming onboard whose accounts I have to create and whose systems I need to configure. Unfortunately.

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On October the fifth, over two months ago, we were told about new contractors who were going to begin working for us. Today, I finally got the manager to submit the correct forms for us to set them up on our systems.

What have these people been doing for the last two months? And why is this so typical of my company?

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NPR is interviewing a photogropher named David Plowden. This little excerpt struck me (and I'm paraphrasing here):

Interviewer: "It occurs to me, as we talk about these trains, that these are not landscape pictures, or pictures of equipment that you've taken. These are portraits; it's almost as though these trains were alive to you.
David Plowden: "Yes, that's exactly it. They were alive to me."

I googled some of his work and and had that same sort of miraculous experience that I had when I started reading Catherynne Valente's Orphan's Tales, or when I first really listened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: it's the experience of suddenly finding exactly the kind of art that you've always wanted to create but haven't figured out how to.

And I love listening to him talk. He thinks in remarkably similar ways to me. I need to listen to this again this weekend.