Back on station...
Feb. 11th, 2002 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI went home directly after the end of "yesterday's" shift, had a little breakfast and went to sleep for a couple of hours. I began to read The Rainmaker, by John Gresham, while sipping my tea and found myself picking up the book again when I got up.
I'm a little amazed at this, actually. I've never evinced any kind of interest in Gresham's work before, and my interest in fictionalized legal wrangling evaporated about the time I stopped watching Raymond Burr play the role of Perry Mason in black-and-white reruns on TV. The story of The Rainmaker is engaging, however, and I understand it's been turned into a movie. I don't recall having seen it.
Besides the entertainment, a collateral benefit of reading the book was not having the computer on at any time while at home. I am happy to report that such a circumstance does not give me the shakes, at least not if I am otherwise suitably engaged.
The only downside to the book was finishing it at nearly 9 pm, nearly too late to try to catch a few z's before coming in for tonight's shift. As it was, it took me a little while to fall asleep. I woke up at 11:15 pm, which left me 10 minutes to get ready to leave for work. The process took a bit longer, as I needed to find some important papers, but in the end I got to JSC on time (more or less :^).
I've been told that during the week, my morning relief will appear after the completion of his/her telecon, and that I am to remain in the MSR until my relief appears. This places the end of the work "day" at anywhere between 8 am and, at the outside, around 10 am.
That's okay, though, as this is not a very demanding shift, and it's a far, far cry from driving railroad spikes or manually hauling wheelbarrows of mulch all over Creation. Maybe it's The Rainmaker talking, but I do - after all - get paid by the hour for this.
Cheers...
I'm a little amazed at this, actually. I've never evinced any kind of interest in Gresham's work before, and my interest in fictionalized legal wrangling evaporated about the time I stopped watching Raymond Burr play the role of Perry Mason in black-and-white reruns on TV. The story of The Rainmaker is engaging, however, and I understand it's been turned into a movie. I don't recall having seen it.
Besides the entertainment, a collateral benefit of reading the book was not having the computer on at any time while at home. I am happy to report that such a circumstance does not give me the shakes, at least not if I am otherwise suitably engaged.
The only downside to the book was finishing it at nearly 9 pm, nearly too late to try to catch a few z's before coming in for tonight's shift. As it was, it took me a little while to fall asleep. I woke up at 11:15 pm, which left me 10 minutes to get ready to leave for work. The process took a bit longer, as I needed to find some important papers, but in the end I got to JSC on time (more or less :^).
I've been told that during the week, my morning relief will appear after the completion of his/her telecon, and that I am to remain in the MSR until my relief appears. This places the end of the work "day" at anywhere between 8 am and, at the outside, around 10 am.
That's okay, though, as this is not a very demanding shift, and it's a far, far cry from driving railroad spikes or manually hauling wheelbarrows of mulch all over Creation. Maybe it's The Rainmaker talking, but I do - after all - get paid by the hour for this.
Cheers...
