It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

What a beautiful day today in Northern Virginia! The sun is shining, it is not freezing cold, it’s Friday, there are happy 1989 tunes playing on the radio, and I am finally getting a promotion out of this horrible department that I have been dwelling for almost four years . . .

It is finally semi-official (in that most people know that it is happening) and I am starting to learn the new duties for my new position. It is both very overwhelming and extremely exciting. The new department is a great fit for me, taking a lot of what I love about what I do now and expanding it a bit. And since the department is ramping up after sitting fallow for almost two years, the other new staff and I will be able to try out some new ideas along with bringing new energy and renewed focus to what we do. I have a lot to learn about the new topic, but I am so eager to just start . . .

I am a bit sad to leave what I’m doing now, but I won’t be working for the crap-tacular uber-boss anymore, which means it will be a relief that things will get done on time and without much fuss. Part of my frustration was that we should have done much more than we were actually doing, and the things we did do should not have taken as long to accomplish as they did. There was a definite major bottleneck holding us back . . .

Besides, I was the last original member of our department from when I started four years ago – we’ve gone through so many good people, it is really sad – all driven out by the uber-boss’ management style, or lack thereof. I have a lot of transitional stuff to do and projects to wrap up, so it will be a while before I can throw myself into my new work, but now I can do the old stuff without the burden on my shoulders that this was all I was ever going to be stuck doing . . .

I am going into the weekend with a happy heart, actually looking forward to next week. Wow, what a difference a week makes . . .