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September 25, 2005 Thank you for your concern. I am healing. My infection is improving. Actually, infections, I am being treated for an inner ear infection which is causing me to be dizzy and nauseated. Turns out that I also have a chest infection which really doesn't help, the coughing is miserable. Could be worse . . . I won't even ask how, but it could! I am now looking forward to returning to my old job. Actually, I have been looking forward to this for some time now. I am a professional and frankly, I am tired of being told that I have the date wrong or that I have the wrong time after I repeated it back to the person in question. I wanted to die of laughter when I was told by my immediate supervisor that she is organized. You can't remember anything and you are always right, we, the rest of the world is always wrong. It just gets old. I also know that it is a detriment to establish relationships as a field organizer. I can not plan and strategize with my fellow team members much less the employees in the field. My schedule is always being changed, appointments are always being cancelled and my instructions are always being changed. I can not believe that I actually wanted to have this job and now I realize that I am not up to it because I can not stomach the lack of preparation, lack of planning, lack of direction and lack of real effort to improve working conditions. I readily admit that I can not do this job and I don't want to. My time as a Field Representative Organizer is over and I am only working to see it through at this point. I have already contacted my old supervisor and I have made it clear to him not to approve additional time (before I am sent back unceremoniously!). I know that I will be returning to an empty house though. The only people that I care about at my place of employment have all left and the last one left on August 29th. Actually, the 11:33 entry was to signify the last time we would have lunch together while working at the same location. I am listening to Faith of the Heart right now . . . go figure! I will miss you JR. I knew it would end one day and it did on August 29th. Her final day was the 31st, but it was just a formality by then. Last Sunday, the seminary community gathered at the IHOP near my home and we had a blast! I can not thank enough all of my friends and family that attended. It was fun. One of my brothers, thanked me for keeping the family together. I suppose that struck me the most and I appreciated that comment and I realized that that is what I have been trying to do all of my life (maybe I AM an organizer after all)! I live for this stuff (the soundtrack for Superman is now playing!)! Boston and New York tied going into the final week of the season with 91-64 records! How about that? The Wild Card standings have four teams still in the playoff hunt - Boston, New York, Cleveland and the A's. The National League also has four teams still in it. September 11, 2005 4 Years. I had the privilege to watch "The Flight That Fought Back" and I must tell you that as a witness to the tragic events of that fateful day four years ago, I now have some satisfaction in knowing a bit more. I learned about the people on board that flight and I learned something about myself too. Our generation and our children will never forget this event, but eventually, the event will fade into history and it will become a date, a footnote in our nation's history. Before this can ever happen, a memorial must be made and must be left for generations to come so that the names of those forty souls live on forever, just as the are still living in our memories and in the skies of our great nation - forever vigilant on our behalf.
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