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I think Jeff is the one who taught me the word unrecovery. You see recovery is what happens when you come to your senses and leave your job in tech support . Unrecovery? when you slip slide back into that role again, clearly having forgoten the frustration and how good freedom tasted when you left.

You see my friends, I have entered into a state of unrecovery. Four plus years ago I quit my job in tech support at Major Seattle ISP to return to school and focus on academics.  And  through  the hard work of those four years I have made my way back right where I started. Though this time its tech support for the University itself, in a student role.

Walking into training last monday I was once again reminded of the typical make up of this profession. As I smiled happily at my fellow student workers, all male and few of them even of the age to drink, I knew what they were thinking “WTF is this old woman doing in our training class?”

Yet the lead who was doing the training knew. He had done my technical interview. He knew that my experience runs deep and that I dont go running from a terminal like much of todays youth. At one point he opened up the main UW website in Lynx and smirked  at the bewildered students. Looking at me he nodded “You’ve used this before havent you?”

I’m excited by the new job to be honest. The hours are flexible, the office respects student schedules and the people I work with seem nice and knowledgeable. The tech support angle is good too, feeling like I’m scratching a part of my brain that I didn’t know itched.

Welcome to Unrecovery.

Sitting in bed on Saturday night I was tired of the internet. It happpens occasionally. I decided to pull out some of the fantastic sock yarn that I got at the Black Sheep Gathering. Yet, i didnt really want to just knit. The movies on my laptop I’d already watched, and there was nothing calling to me from the video collection in the living room. Thnking I might want an audio book i fired up Itunes and began looking at the offerings through Itunes First up was the Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, until I saw the price tag 49.95! Amazing at hoe much more expensive the audiobook is over the hard cover.

I poked around some more even looking up one of those “hate to love to read authors” You know, the one you are embarrassed to have in your book collection.  Even her crappy novels were running $30 each. I can get them for   a couple of bucks used at the bookstore.

Still doesn’t solve the problem.  So I kept poking around, looking through podcasts and finally popping into the movies section. For $1.99 I could get an episode of Weeds,or Babylon 5 or Star Trek Voyager. In fact for the 50.00 they wanted for Harry Potter I could get 25 different Tv show episodes to watch as i knit in bed. Now which is the better deal?

Next month I’ll look into Audible.com’s subscription service to see if thats worth it. In th meantime I’m watching Voyager and Babylon 5 from the beginning.

I found this through  Johnny Bakers website, and though tI would share with you. Its a cartoon series showing Jesus 40 days in the Desert.

"For my thirtieth birthday, I gave myself some time away from it all."