Caught

I've been found. I've got to call one of the IT VPs tomorrow to discuss helping out on a proposal. I can't figure this one out, it's an IT VP leading a proposal for a home improvement store. Hmm. Should be interesting to hear what this one is about. Good thing is...helping with proposals can lead to helping with the project, and IT is better than sourcing!

I'm still up to my ears in my last project. Seems everybody hates me. I'm going to be the person who gets the blame for years. I hope that I can get most of this wrapped up and passed off before too long. It'll really cause some problems for me if I haven't handled it before I get staffed again. At an associate level, that's expected, that you'll have some baggage from previous projects. As a BA, you're just expected to be able to hit the ground running and start crunching data and building decks. Not sure the best way to handle this...if I should mention the continuing work to my next manager/VP or not? I'll have to pray on this one. Pray that I work diligently to complete the work and the hand off, and that I know the right thing to do should it not be complete when I get the official call to head off to the next project.

On a completely different note...this past weekend was documentary weekend for me. I watched March of the Penguins with my grandparents in Illinois, then Spellbound at home by myself. Wow, March of the Penguins was amazing. I just can't see how anyone can argue with that perfect example of how God created his creatures. I mean, these penguins march hundreds of miles, with the sole purpose of mating (heterosexual, mind you), creating a new living generation, raising and protecting that creation, and then they go right back to doing it again. The babies are born and by instinct they know to come back and go through all of that after 5 years. Incredible. There couldn't be a clearer example of how God intends life on earth to be! I mean, talk about temptation. These daddy penguins sit on an egg in the blizzards of antarctica, for more than 5 months, surrounded by nothing but ice and other male penguins. They lose half their body weight protecting their eggs and are starving. They only return to the sea to feed after they have allowed their women to do so, and they turn around and come right back with food for the new family. I mean, what human would go through all of that? I don't know many. Love is an amazing thing, and when people really find it, it lasts, and I see that sort of devotion...my parents, grandparents, and several of my friends have exemplified that sort of love. But then there are all the other things that people mistake for love. I mean I can't lie, I've been there and done that. I don't know why I thought I loved some of the people in my past. But I know now that there were certain things missing...I was always aware of it, I felt it...but I ignored it. Watching the penguins, you can see that their instincts lead them to love, and their love enables them to live on in new generations. I think I'm going to listen to my instincts from now on.

Anyway, my eyes are watering because I'm so tired. So that's it for now. Sweet Dreams!