The Swarm!!!

People get to see the silly and ridiculous elements of the office envirnment through tv and comics like Dilbert, but there are equally odd and ridiculous things in the industrial workplace. The maintenence swarm for example. When something goes wrong with a machine, maintenence is called, sensical so far, no? So a maintenence guy will arrive and take a look at the machine or whatever in question and then retreat to the maintenence worker enclave, mush like that little ant that scouts out the food crumbs on your kitchen floor and return to the nest. He then returns with 1 to 2 more workers who also look at whatever needs fixed. Then they all walk off again. The third or fourth time they return there will be about 5 and they will bring their tools. One to two of them will begin taking everything apart and fiddling while about two others will sit around and talk about what they think is wrong giving suggestions to the tinkerers. Any remaining maintenence workers will be sitting nearby drinking coffee and being payed for it. Usually the machine will be fixed in an inordinate amoutn of time, or not at all and they'll just shut it down and save it for later. This phenomenon has occurred in every factory I've worked in. The wonders of human efficiency folks! Behold!

On a seperate note, I'm very single again, confirmed kill on that count. Recent posts probably more or less revealed that and were full of grumpy and bitter, but I'm actually enjoying being single for once. Not so much for itself, but in the fact that I have opportunities again. I'm not all that worried about being tied down, but having spent about a month in a shit relationship, it's refreshing to be free again and have the possibilty of finding a better one, even if my track record suggests I better just get in the fucked-for-life line. It's weird, but not unexpected, that, though on principle I don't believe in the idea of me needing to have a significant other at all times or anything, but I realize that I've molded a lot of my choices in life around my efforts to get near and get to know members of the opposite sex. As someone who's not big on casual dating it's sort of my only option. I can't really just snag girlfriends out of thin air, or out of the pool of avaiable random ladies out there because I want to actually know them first and have more than a superficial connection so I'm left with having to put effort into thigns 24/7 in order to sift what I'm looking for out of the entirety of my whole life. I want a girl I find attractive, one that's interesting, intelligent, can put up with me and knows how to have a good time and when to be serious. Other important factors that I'm noticing have been lacking in all previous relationships I've had is commitment, which is amusing considering this is the stereotype is for the womenfolk to want the commitment from we males. Ooh...and honesty...now lets talk about that. I am an honest guy...brutally so, I tell people what I think, not what they wnt to hear. I give honest answers to questions from friends and honest opinions when asked. I realize not everyone is capable of this, but I expect some measure of it in a significant other was well as the ability to dael with the fact that I'm going to speak my mind and be honest and not play games. It's always driven me nuts that I'm always second guessed when I'm speaking plainly. This is gonna turn into one of those endless rants. Summed up: single, looking...

Oh and yeah, I'm still stuck in York...school needs to restart faster so I can get the hellz outta here...