Saturday, March 25, 2006
It has been a little bit.
So the story is the same. working. Yet it is also different. I have added on an extra ten hours working for my parents. Wendy and I are job-sharing a 20 hr a week job. it hopefuly will work out. In other news I am trying to get promoted into a newly created vacancy at the hotel. The supervisor at the front desk is leaving. This opens the position. The management has lowered the postion a little. I don't know what that means, but I can apply for it.
We will see. I find it interesting that I can now see my life in the hotel industry. Goodness.
I guess it is alright, but I still wonder about the whole setup. Someone decided that the hotel would be structured the way it is. Sometimes I wonder about it. I guess the whole structure works really well when we are talking about a 800+ room hotel. here at our "little" business and convention hotel of approx 400 rooms the structure breaks down.
I don't know. Maybe I just need a place to land for a little while. Unfortunately, the job I do keeps me from having to write coherent sentences. I type one word here and a phrase there, but nothing sustained.
I hope to change that in the near future. I am still swirling non-violence, simplicity, and spirituality around to see what glints in the pan. I hope to read Ghandi before easter. I wanted to take the lenten season and use it to read up on these subjects in hope that I could make some focused decision. I wanted it to look like I knew exactly what my decision was and could write about it for a good while. I read Yoders "politics of jesus" a few months ago. Now I am working through Bolle's "Enticement of Religion", and Stepaniak's "Vegan sourcebook". I have a pretty good idea of the simplicity side of it all.
Basically, I ran accross a copy of the "Plain Reader" at the library. This is a book of excerpts from "Plain Magazine". This is a magazine put on by luddites in Ohio. I read about how these people view their lives and what exactly they are trying to do. I found that one of the underlying sentiments is that technology itself is not shunned. Rather it is used as a tool and when there is a good way of accomplishing something, it is used. However, the rub comes in the idea of progress for its own sake and also in the idea of overcomplication. Why use a more complicated machine to complete the same job.
Our world grows increasingly complex. I find myself lost in the tide. I wonder, "who am I, a speck amongst billions? How do my actions matter?" It seems like riding my bike to work and back, eating lower on the trophic levels, and avoiding the mall during sales helps.
We will see. I find it interesting that I can now see my life in the hotel industry. Goodness.
I guess it is alright, but I still wonder about the whole setup. Someone decided that the hotel would be structured the way it is. Sometimes I wonder about it. I guess the whole structure works really well when we are talking about a 800+ room hotel. here at our "little" business and convention hotel of approx 400 rooms the structure breaks down.
I don't know. Maybe I just need a place to land for a little while. Unfortunately, the job I do keeps me from having to write coherent sentences. I type one word here and a phrase there, but nothing sustained.
I hope to change that in the near future. I am still swirling non-violence, simplicity, and spirituality around to see what glints in the pan. I hope to read Ghandi before easter. I wanted to take the lenten season and use it to read up on these subjects in hope that I could make some focused decision. I wanted it to look like I knew exactly what my decision was and could write about it for a good while. I read Yoders "politics of jesus" a few months ago. Now I am working through Bolle's "Enticement of Religion", and Stepaniak's "Vegan sourcebook". I have a pretty good idea of the simplicity side of it all.
Basically, I ran accross a copy of the "Plain Reader" at the library. This is a book of excerpts from "Plain Magazine". This is a magazine put on by luddites in Ohio. I read about how these people view their lives and what exactly they are trying to do. I found that one of the underlying sentiments is that technology itself is not shunned. Rather it is used as a tool and when there is a good way of accomplishing something, it is used. However, the rub comes in the idea of progress for its own sake and also in the idea of overcomplication. Why use a more complicated machine to complete the same job.
Our world grows increasingly complex. I find myself lost in the tide. I wonder, "who am I, a speck amongst billions? How do my actions matter?" It seems like riding my bike to work and back, eating lower on the trophic levels, and avoiding the mall during sales helps.
# posted by Hotel Gabacho @ 8:34 PM 
