I'm bored at work today. There's always this post mission lull where I have a hard time finding motivation for even the relatively minor items on my to do list. When you're flying a mission, everything you do is both immediate and important. Being in the office can be *boring* especially when looked at in stark contrast to missions. Its hard to go back to the office and be a peon again. I really feel like a peon today. There are lots of people around me who have some really cool important assignments. I'm actually doing an appraisal with my manager today and my goal is to talk to him about getting myself one of those.

Console work is still awesome, but lately it hasn't been enough to keep my interest alone. No one ever really masters a job like my console position, people get good, great even, but there's really always something new. But there is definitely a certain point, and maybe I'm at it, where I feel I know enough (definitely enough to be dangerous?) that the new parts aren't overwhelming me like they once did and certainly isn't enough to keep my continous interest. I added it up and I've worked 10 missions since I started flight control work, 2 in my backroom job and 8 in my current job - considering each mission I work about 12 days on console (maybe more) that puts me at over 100 days on console now. Apparently that's the magic number for... well... something different.

Its funny how you can both love what you do and want something more at the same time, but I do...