Tag: new england
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New England (Chapter 10)
My anxiety is high right now. It gets like this sometimes at the end of an assignment. I’m having trouble sleeping. It’s nights like these that random thoughts plague me, some rational, some irrational- Taxes, determining arrival date to my next assignment, needing to get a drug screen, the rain gutter that was clogged when…
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New England (Chapter 9)
I can’t make biscuits. I have tried many times over the years without success. I can bake bread and pies, though. People request my pies just so that they can eat the crust alone. It makes no sense that I can’t conquer biscuits, but trust me, one batch of biscuits that I made were not…
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New England (Chapter 8)
It is hard to believe that I am winding down this assignment. Time seems to pass quicker when you don’t want something to end. That is how it is right now. I don’t know that I will miss the location, but I will certainly miss my coworkers. Time also passes quickly when you are trying…
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New England (Chapter 6)
It…..is…..so…..HOT here! When I found this apartment, I knew that it did not have air conditioning. My thoughts were that it would be just fine. I mean, I grew up in Texas. As a child, we rarely used the air conditioner. We had an attic fan, which at night cooled the house, but during the…
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New England (Chapter 5)
I have a renewed fascination with Six Sigma. Data analysis has always been something that interests me, so it should be no surprise that I am filled with wonder and delight over Six Sigma. If you are not familiar with it, Six Sigma is a set of methodologies and tools used to reduce defects and errors,…
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New England (Chapter 3)
One of the challenges of living in a new area is learning the network of roads and streets. Here, you can add the challenge of circular intersections, also called roundabouts. These do not typically exist in Texas and I have had very little experience with them. I find them confusing and intimidating. My usual reaction…
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New England (Chapter 2)
I developed an angry rash on my forearm this week. I had no idea what it was from and I didn’t have any hydrocortisone cream on hand, it is just another item that I have discovered that I’m without since I am not living in my camper. I was told that it is from a…
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New England (Chapter 1)
We arrived safely to our destination and we have spent the last week learning our new environment and adjusting. We do not have a washer/dryer in our furnished apartment -this I will miss immensely (I have mentioned the obsession that I have with my washer in a previous post). The sun rises here at 0430…