Now that I've done my daily "life seems overly hectic" routine, I should mention they are conducting an employee satisfaction survey at work. Last year I didn't participate because I didn't trust the outside firm conducting the survey to keep the information anonymous. MSW called me on that. How do you expect anything to change if you don't take a stand? I thought it over. I'd been a wuss. So this year I filled out the online questionnaire. They don't ask your name, but from the questions it wouldn't be hard to figure out who anyone was from their answers. Then I talked with some coworkers and they all expressed the same sentiment: it no longer mattered whether they trusted the company or not, they were going for broke. I don't know if management will be surprised by the results. I do wonder how they'll announce them when they're released in September.

I received a sales brochure from Santa Fe Workshops touting their photography classes and seminars in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. They didn't list any that particularly appealed or at least appealed to my current interests, but there must be groups out there somewhere who offer other classes, all of them lasting from a few days to a week, and flying to one city or another is no big deal anymore. And I'd like to take a portraiture class that stresses the technical lighting and equipment side. So why not? I'm taking two weeks off at the end of July, but I'm planning to spend it here and work on my photography site, but I can take another week as easily or not in the fall. I might like that. Lurch onward, in other words.