it pays

Today was one of the longest days I’ve had in a while. First things first, I had a date this morning with my sister, and as it happened, it got canceled. Very sad. We had planned to do our posting together this morning, and celebrate old times. Although she couldn’t make it, nonetheless I still had to get it done. So I did, and then I began work. Work includes QA testing for a nationwide product that must be completed before this Sunday, research on options reducing business expenses, corresponding with programmers, companies, potential employees, and naturally, FedEx, among other things. I had my own personal tasks to attend to aside from my work, and so things were busy as you can imagine.

Between breakfast and lunch I worked, hard. I also did my Esperanto lessons for the day, and surprise surprise! I am now finished with my first course – that’s ten lessons including vocabulary, grammar, and reading tests. I am very glad to have the basics down now, and very excited to start the second course.

Between lunch and dinner I meant to walk to Dilworth coffee shop with my sister, but as we were about to leave it began to rain. Just our luck. So we stayed home and made me a frappuccino and some amazing pumpkin oat bars, and played speed scrabble. It was so much fun. Afterwards I finished up my work (or at least as much as possible) and cleaned up my workspace. While i was at it, I took some time to spiff up the corner of the office which, for about a year or two now, has been a heaping mess of cables, CDs, video cards, paperwork, coupons, screws and twist ties, and garbage. It was overwhelming and gross. However, after an hour of hard and dusty work, I managed to fill two new cd cases, a jar of screws, a box of twist ties, and a file folder for the papers. It was well worth it. The entire workspace looks incredible, and so clean. The end result was double pay this week which was very encouraging.
The main point is that it pays to do the extra work. Go the extra mile, do that hard task you’ve been putting off for weeks, and make it worth it. Don’t do a poor job of it, do the best you can!

M.fs

learning –> learning

School. It seems like I am always doing school! I was recently pondering this statement, and thought of this quote by one of my favorite authors:

We do not do our school to graduate, but rather, we graduate so that we can put our schooling to use.

So true. Lots of people say that they can’t wait till they’re done with school, but in my opinion, we aren’t graduating so that we don’t have to do our school anymore, we’re graduating because we can finally use it. As we go through each grade, we are learning more, based on what we learned previously, and so we will continue. I am under the impression that we will never stop learning – I don’t really want to stop, because the more I know, the less I don’t know.

M.fs