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From Faust:
Faust:
Whatever is the lot of humankind
I want to taste within my deepest self.
I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
and thus expand my single self titanically
and in the end, go down with all the rest.
Mephistopheles:
Believe you him who now for some millennia
has chewed this tough and wretched fate,
that from the cradle to the bier
no man digests the ancient dough!
Believe the likes of me: the single whole
was fashioned for a god alone,
who dwells in everlasting, radiant glow
and relegated us to darkness;
and you must content yourselves with day and night.
It just caught my fancy and I thought I'd share. I'm a good third of the way through thanks to my copious amount of free time this long weekend. Going back to work will be a drag. Speaking of work...
Things were uneasy on the work front last Thursday. A couple other employees and I approached the boss about her plan to hire her daughter to work at the front desk. I'm doing that job at the moment, but due to my promotion, I'll only be there until the end of this week. Afterward I'll be moving upstairs. However, I'll be expected to answer the phone (along with the Payroll Girl) when the daughter is not there. She's still in college and will only be available after 2pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thankfully, she will be there all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The boss was rather defensive and upset that we were "attacking" her decision to hire the daughter. That was not my position. I was worried about taking on so much work and answering phones for those hours that no one would be at the front desk. After an hour of discussion she calmed down and we came to an understanding. I'm handing over the vast majority of my current duties to the new girl and we are going to try to work this out. If it can't be worked and I become swamped, then she will hire someone to answer phones for me. I feel much better now.
Sometimes I think this buying of CDs is a disease. I purchased four more on Amazon Marketplace and I look forward to all of them trickling in by mail in the coming two weeks. I get like this when I can't find something I want to listen to in my massive collection. I've been on the fence as to whether I want to buy the Brazilian Girls album. Part of me is intrigued and the other part of me feels that I'll buy it and quickly discard it as a waste of my time. I have no doubt that the music is of importance. I'm just wobbling on whether it is of importance to me. You dig?
Oh, and my movies update for this weekend's rentals:
Welcome to the Dollhouse was one I had seen before, but not in full. I liked it and even found I could relate to several parts , though not so much as Ghost World (which I also rented and loved). Aguirre, Wrath of God was interesting, though I can't say how historically accurate it was seeing as how I know next to nothing about the Spanish conquistadors and the search for El Dorado. The dialogue is in German, though the character are all from Spain (or natives of Mexico). Haha. The expedition reminded me of children playing games or make-believe. I couldn't help but marvel at how silly we humans are. And on a lark The Martian Chronicles was rented. Not the entire thing, but the first volume that was aired on television. I have a soft spot for Ray Bradbury. I despised him when I was 14 and my English teacher made us read Dandelion Wine. I thought it was the most worthless book ever. With years between then and now, I have come to love it and understand it as a 14-year-old cannot. Anyway, the first 45 minutes was rather dull and I considered just giving up on it. Made-for-television movies have never been my favorites. However, the second 45 minutes was much better - so much so that I plan on renting the second volume this coming weekend.
Since when do I make scattered, long posts like these?
Faust:
Whatever is the lot of humankind
I want to taste within my deepest self.
I want to seize the highest and the lowest,
to load its woe and bliss upon my breast,
and thus expand my single self titanically
and in the end, go down with all the rest.
Mephistopheles:
Believe you him who now for some millennia
has chewed this tough and wretched fate,
that from the cradle to the bier
no man digests the ancient dough!
Believe the likes of me: the single whole
was fashioned for a god alone,
who dwells in everlasting, radiant glow
and relegated us to darkness;
and you must content yourselves with day and night.
It just caught my fancy and I thought I'd share. I'm a good third of the way through thanks to my copious amount of free time this long weekend. Going back to work will be a drag. Speaking of work...
Things were uneasy on the work front last Thursday. A couple other employees and I approached the boss about her plan to hire her daughter to work at the front desk. I'm doing that job at the moment, but due to my promotion, I'll only be there until the end of this week. Afterward I'll be moving upstairs. However, I'll be expected to answer the phone (along with the Payroll Girl) when the daughter is not there. She's still in college and will only be available after 2pm on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Thankfully, she will be there all day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The boss was rather defensive and upset that we were "attacking" her decision to hire the daughter. That was not my position. I was worried about taking on so much work and answering phones for those hours that no one would be at the front desk. After an hour of discussion she calmed down and we came to an understanding. I'm handing over the vast majority of my current duties to the new girl and we are going to try to work this out. If it can't be worked and I become swamped, then she will hire someone to answer phones for me. I feel much better now.
Sometimes I think this buying of CDs is a disease. I purchased four more on Amazon Marketplace and I look forward to all of them trickling in by mail in the coming two weeks. I get like this when I can't find something I want to listen to in my massive collection. I've been on the fence as to whether I want to buy the Brazilian Girls album. Part of me is intrigued and the other part of me feels that I'll buy it and quickly discard it as a waste of my time. I have no doubt that the music is of importance. I'm just wobbling on whether it is of importance to me. You dig?
Oh, and my movies update for this weekend's rentals:
Welcome to the Dollhouse was one I had seen before, but not in full. I liked it and even found I could relate to several parts , though not so much as Ghost World (which I also rented and loved). Aguirre, Wrath of God was interesting, though I can't say how historically accurate it was seeing as how I know next to nothing about the Spanish conquistadors and the search for El Dorado. The dialogue is in German, though the character are all from Spain (or natives of Mexico). Haha. The expedition reminded me of children playing games or make-believe. I couldn't help but marvel at how silly we humans are. And on a lark The Martian Chronicles was rented. Not the entire thing, but the first volume that was aired on television. I have a soft spot for Ray Bradbury. I despised him when I was 14 and my English teacher made us read Dandelion Wine. I thought it was the most worthless book ever. With years between then and now, I have come to love it and understand it as a 14-year-old cannot. Anyway, the first 45 minutes was rather dull and I considered just giving up on it. Made-for-television movies have never been my favorites. However, the second 45 minutes was much better - so much so that I plan on renting the second volume this coming weekend.
Since when do I make scattered, long posts like these?
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The Martian Chronicles - is that the one with Rock Hudson? I vaguely remember it, if it's the same thing, from the early 80s. A lack of Wookiees and stormtroopers kept me from appreciating it much :)