Monthly Archives: March 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz- Books Review

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This book took me 4 months to finish. Not because it was boring, but it was a book that I look back and really understood why he did it that way. I am going to talk about the bad and it can really throw some people off if they aren’t patient.

The Bad…

1. Too much back into the future- The book is suppose to be about Oscar Wao, but it talks about the people that are really close to him quite alot and it got annoying. Again when the near was coming it all made sense. If you do read this book don’t let that detour you from finishing it, because all and all it is a good book.

2. Damn the footnotes- This book teaches you the same time about the Dominican Republic history, folk stories, and legends. In the beginning it seemed like there was a damn footnote on every page and some of them took up the whole page with half the font of the regular text = not cool.

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2 Months Later After being in the Apartment

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It really has been nearly 3 months since moving into my apartment. I wanted to write this after 1 month, but for the most part it is really the same and has gotten better after I cleaned out the excess amount of stuff. But to compare it to all of the years after moving back from college it is truly my best times being in Houston.

While at home…

When I moved back home in the summer of 2005 I immediate resorted to my old ways when I was a younger. I didn’t want to go out if I had a choice, always wanted to play video games and sleep all day, felt it was a need to tell my parents where I was going out, basically doing teenager stuff. I told myself that I didn’t want to pay for rent from a place that I have grown up all my life and that it wouldn’t change the outlook of the city as a growning adult who was going to work and paying bills.

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When Your Back is Against the Wall the Best Always Comes Out…Why is That?

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Boss: “DO YOU UNDERSTAND”?

Me: “Yes”!

Did I really understand? Nope not really. I have been working on this particular part of a project all day and going back and forth to my boss to get help. I was really clueless and I believed she knew that also. I then told her that I will have something for her the next day she came in. Deep down inside I was sweating and didn’t want to disappoint myself and my boss. So I did the next best thing and went home (lol, I laugh about this now).

I used the excuse that I work better not constantly working on the same project, that I had a headache, but more importantly my shift was finished and didn’t want to spend an extra amount of time in the office. During the time being home and the next day of work I really did think about how I was going to finish the work correctly.

The next day at work I went with the idea of “if I don’t know just ask as many people I think might know” approach. It would you know it worked like a charm. I got the work done and presented it to my boss and she went ahead and directed me to the next task. Honestly, I didn’t totally finish the job correctly, my graph just looked like what she was looking for, but during that day I finished it up the right way and understood what was going on with the project as a whole.

It amazes me when I see other people and myself are pushed against the wall and we find some way to complete the task or goal in sight. I have also realized that I am way too lazy and feel it is only of importance when I feel that it just has to get done. So however long I last at my current job and my next I will start to finish things fast, correctly, and very presentable. But with my side gigs, book writing, blog writing, and freelance work I will do them with what I just said and with pride. Because work will be work, well in my case that is what it is to me, but something that I truly care I will do it like it was the last thing I ever do on earth-with pride and thankfulness that I have been given a chance to do what I like to do.