Research Development

The last few weeks have been slightly rough. School and work have not worked out well due to the fact that I am attempting on some days to go to school all day and then pull an eight hour shift until 11 pm and not making it home until almost midnight...and being away from home for 14 hours out of the day is not fun at all. I have to study at school, sit at school more hours than I would like and then jaunt off to work for a long shift...and I miss my house, my husband, and the comfort of being somewhere personal. It is not easy, but... I can do this, I can finish.

On a more positive educational front, I am starting to really get into the senior project I am working on currently regarding Colonial charter development in the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries. While the research is in the beginning phases to say the least, I am thoroughly happy with what I have found thus far and find myself falling more and more in love with the dynamics of charters and how they dictate what can and cannot be done in a British colonial settlement. Perhaps here, I will slowly update through the process and what I find, if anyone reads this blasted thing anyway lol.

Right now...

I am focusing on the 1584 Charter awarded to Sir Humfrey Gilbert by the crown to explore outside the bounds of the realm of England, the charter is very vague and gives Gilbert a great deal of birth and power in his expeditions... it is amazing how much was given to the early explorers and how finite such allowances become by the time entire Royal colonies are created in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Let It Snow and other Annoyances...

The snow was beautiful to be honest, as it lightly fell to the ground in sheets of dotted ivory perfection...but I was at work, behind the glass of a retail store where I was growing more and more frustrated by the hour.
In a time where we should be thankful for our employment, I am completely disgruntled. I have given the corporation I work for almost 9 good years, I have dedicated myself, worked hard, given it my all, and done my best to do well for the company and it has only taken less than a year for one person to almost ruin all that for me.
I do not think people really understand how horrible retail is until they have worked in retail for an extended period of time, it is the most thankless and degrading job at times, where you are constantly dogged, there is no merit based improvement, and you fear constantly that the crap position you do have...you will lose.
So I make less than I have in years, I feel thankless in my work, I drudge through the day taking crap from someone out of fear that I might lose the job I have if I anger them and end up miserable.
It doesnt help that I am ill and that my dependence on the insurance and the job enables this one person to literally suck all the enjoyment out of work all together...
There is a way to make a place succeed and have the employees of that place not loathe being there...
My store never felt this way...
I miss it.