Overnight again.

Well, once again I was roped in to work the overnight on Saturday evening. Personally, working the overnight is not a bad deal, except for the fact that I need to figure out when to go to bed. On Sunday morning for example, I would have just gone right to bed after I got off my shift at 6:15AM. However, I needed to go to Mass because I was leading the RCIA discussion that morning. Technically, I could have gone to bed for three hours, wake up, go to Mass then after Mass go right back to bed. However, after I got back to my apartment, I realized that Liverpool was playing live on tv at 7:30AM which pretty much meant that I had to watch the game. So, I ended up staying up the entire time watching the game which was a very good game I must say, and they won convincingly. I made it to Mass, led the discussion and after that came back to my apartment and crashed. I ended up waking up at 5:15PM which meant I had a little more than five hours of sleep which is fine. The rest of the Sunday was spent watching a dvd and some television shows. I called it a night at 10PM. Amazingly, I did not have too much problem going to bed although my body did wake me up at 1AM and 4AM. Oh well. This morning (Monday), I sent an e mail to my supervisor asking her if I could change my work schedule and not work on Saturday but work from 3:45PM-10PM on Monday and Tuesday beginning in April. We’ll see what she has to say. I don’t think she’ll have a problem, but you’ll never know. If she says yes, that mean I’ll be able to have one day (Saturday) of no work whatsoever. Boy, that would be nice feeling to say the least. Also, I’ll be able to go to the Farmers’ Market once it gets going and we all know how much I like doing that on Saturday mornings. It just makes my day. Yesterday, the weather hit a high of close to 65 degrees which is pretty much spring-like weather, but by the evening, it dropped significantly AND this morning, we all work up to snow on the ground with the temperature of 19 degrees. That’s Iowa weather for you!

Last Wednesday, I participated in a webinar (web seminar) at the office. There were two staff members who participated and I personally think that’s the way to go when it comes to seminars. It saves a lot of time and money and the materials still gets to be presented to people. There will be an online conference in two weeks and I’ll be participating in that also. What’s neat about this is the fact that we get to project the webinar onto a screen in our conference room so however many staff are able to participate if they so desire. On Thursday, my friend, Anna and I went to the play, “Defending the Caveman” which was pretty funny and definitely brought some laughs to those of us who were there. It was an older audience who were present and I think there would have been more laughter if it was a younger crowd. All in all we had fun and a good laugh.

On Saturday, Sr. Carola, Fr. Tim and I went to a classical concert at the Art Center. The group that performed was the Ames Piano Quartet. Those who made up the quartet are music faculty at Iowa State University and believe it or not, there just aren’t that many piano quartets in the world and this is one of the better ones. They’ve done some pretty extensive traveling and have recorded a number of cds over the years. It was a very good program and all three of us thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.

That’s pretty much the week that was. Nothing too exciting planned for this week except for the DM Symphony performance on Saturday. I’m really looking forward to it because it’s going to be a different kind of performance with some multimedia presentation and background sounds from the audience in attendance prior to the concert. Like I said, it’ll be a whole new and different kind of performance. Hopefully I’ll be able to explain it better after the performance. That’s the week ahead for me.