Pet Peaves: Phone Calls

When someone calls me and leaves a message, or even if I just see that they are on my caller ID, I call them back. The exception to this is if:
1. I'm going to see them shortly and can talk to them then
2. I know what they're going to ask me about/talk about and I'm not ready to talk to them about it
3. I don't really care to talk to the person at all (eventually I call them back)
It peaves me when I call someone several times and they don't return my phone calls.
It indicates one of the above reasons, and when two of them are ruled out that leaves the third.

Snakes are cool, bikers are not

When in West Texas, please remember to bring your bandannas in many colors, as you wouldn't want to offend the massive numbers of biker gangs who roam the roads and book up all the hotels on the weekends. Dawn exhaust pipe wake up alarm is complimentary.
As soon (that is, if) I figure out why there are so many bikers in this area I'll let you know. I assume it has something to do with the long stretches of open road and the 75 miler per hour speed limits (woohoo, 5 miles faster than ever where else ya'll). At any rate, it seems like a senseless waste of precious fossil fuels to me, so this week Bikers top my list of thoughtless idiots who needlessly pollute our environment for their personal pleasure.
PS, the next person who peels out of the hotel parking lot with their pipes blaring is going to get it...I've formed a precarious alliance with the assasin bunnies to take out the misfits.

How to tread water in the desert

Thank God for the Internet....otherwise how would I spend my days? Working? Pshah! To be honest, things are picking up and I spend only around 80% of my day now passing the time, with things expected to pick up even more as we reach production. But its hard to stay focused when you don't have anything to do. Yesterday myself and some of the girls in the office made South Park Characters...this is one created by Kate Poss depicting me moments after loosing it due to boredom
I'm trying to educate myself a little while I have spare time. I've been reading the leaflet handouts from Josh's producer class at UT. One of the first things it said was a list of important personality traits for a producer:
Patient
Tenacious
Dedicated
Flexible
Calm
Optimistic
Hard-Working
Self-Confident
Generous
Thorough
Detail Oriented
Oh Dear, I thought, I have a lot of work to do, as I possess maybe two of these traits consistently and all of them some of the time, except maybe 'calm'...or 'patient'. What better place to work on these than West Texas, where there's nothing much to do but self improve. I have been a little disappointed with myself for not writing in this blog more often. I think of posts and then forget about them before I have a chance to sit down and write it out. Topics include such far ranging items as politics & religion, immigration reform, mp3 players, gasoline conservation and the economy, living on a budget, and the ideas suggested by the title of this blog which primarily refer to conscientious living or being aware of our place and duties on this earth and within this society.
I figured it out! Often I have to create constructs in order for me to be motivated to complete certain tasks. As I have topics I know I want to write about, I'll create mini posts all at once, and then expand on the posts as I feel like it, finally completing and then posting them.
Now I'm setting a goal of having this initial grouping fleshed out by the end of May. With time to spare perhaps.
While I'm at it, I'd like to set a goal of not checking my email 45 times a day (if not more). I'm up to 7 times already today, and its only 10:22 am.