Conversations

Today I interviewed a woman for an HR position on my team. It was a group interview - which means two others besides me interviewed her at the same time... You would think I would have at least one interesting conversation out of that. Not really. We liked her and will probably hire her - but all in all it was a boring interview. I normally throw in two interesting questions when I interview ("What is your favorite color?" and "What do you most regret not doing?") but I skipped them this time because I just wasn't feeling it.

OK - so let's see... Nothing. I am drawing a complete blank for today. OH! OK - There was a group discussion of a song. "Do you believe in Magic" Chad said something about magic - and wasn't that a song. Matt started singing it. Then Stacey said isn't that from a movie? American Pie? Tony and I were meanwhile singing an old Coke jingle (me) and a McDonald's one (him). April was googling American Pie. Finally I called Katie and asked her what song was it that the show choir sang in American Pie. She started singing "Do You Believe in Magic." And so the conversation was closed in a nice little loop.

However, today I have a "stuff I thought about" topic. This morning I woke up from a really upsetting dream involving a serial killer and a plot to expose him as the killer, involving several of my sisters and friends. It was scary and disturbing because the whole time we were having to make decisions that were putting people I love at risk. So - in the shower afterwards I started pondering why it is so easy to kill a human? I mean - I totally get that in reality for most people it ISN'T that easy. I have often said that I would rather die than kill someone (although, I have become less adamant about that in later years). Then even the physical aspects of killing - I mean, unless I had a gun I probably couldn't do it... BUT, therein lies the rub. I could get a gun if I wanted to. Anyone could kill - or seriously maim someone with a gun and ANYONE can get one. But aside from that... Why is life so fragile? If I were God, I wouldn't have made killing another human an actual option. People should only die when it is actually their time to die. But - in my role as God - I would give the trade off that death could come at any time. I know that is true even now, but I would have made it that death really would ONLY be in the hands of God (the not me God) and old age wouldn't be the most common option. I would probably allow most people to live a full life span - but I would have the equivalent numbers that die now through war and violence and stuff, die at some point less than the old age factor. I would still allow humans to have the hypothetic ability to stave off death through medicine and surgery - and I would allow that surgeons could still have people die on the operating table - but it would be because the course of action failed, not because the doctor puntured the wall of an organ or something. I wouldn't make people so FRAIL.

Off to a slow start

OK - Once I started this two months ago, I began to think how ego-centric it is to keep a blog just for myself - and so I didn't post anything else. Then last night I was reading a book where the main character was trying to recount what happened over the past four years. He said to think about it - how many conversations can YOU remember from the past four years and I thought "Hummmmm. Good point. I can't remember a conversation from YESTERDAY." And so I decided that this would be my place to record at least one conversation that I have each day.

So today - Well, what counts as conversation? I got up, got ready, at breakfast and left for work all alone. My first words of the day were to Grace when we walked in the building together. I don't remember what we talked about though. That would have been something good to recount. My day was filled with a bunch of non-conversation talking. I asked April to pick up lunch for me. OH! OK - Suzanne and I had a conversation about a woman who works with us - and if we had interviewed her for our team before. We got into a philosophical angle when we compared the difference between hireing internally or externally for an HR position. Then at the end of the day we talked about how annoying it is to be invited to a work party and feel obligated to go. Especially when the invitation comes in the form of "What day would be good for you?" No polite way to get out of that!!!

Keeping a Blog

I am not new to blogging. I have participated in two other blogs with my family and friends since about 2004, but this is the first time I have thought to do one on my own - just for me. It seems a little weird - since I will probably be the only one reading it. I am OK with that. I am also not new to reading blogs. I read a bunch of scrapbookers blogs. I also read ones about cooking - and I seem to read an aweful lot of blogs where the author is also a fabulous photographer. I am not a fabulous photographer - but I do LIKE photography - so perhaps I will figure out how to add pictures to my blog.

Anyway - that is it for now. I just wanted to write something to get this kicked off. I will not be reporting my daily weight or exercise here. I am sick of reporting that.