August 15th, 2004 . by Alexander Fisher
When I was a little boy, no doubt I must’ve had a strong southern/hillbilly accent. I had grown up around people that were mostly from either the Ashland or Paintsville, Kentucky areas. I had little experience with people, until I got to school, that didn’t have any real accent. I thought our family’s accent sounded normal, but TV and living in Springfield,Ohio were making me realize that there were people in Ohio that talked funny.
I had made it through kindergarden without much incident, besides the assasination of President Kennedy. (I have an alibi) When I was promoted to first grade the next year, I was finally in a grade that took learning a little more seriously. There were many tests and screenings that children went through at that time to detect learning disabilities and other problems that could affect the success of that child throughout life. One was the speech test.
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March 30th, 2004 . by Alexander Fisher
When you are a new employee, you get put through a probationary period. I am still in mine at my new job. It seems that there is some rule that I broke about being sick during the first three months or six months depending on who tells me. I was the talk of the department last Friday, I guess. Several people asked me if the boss had said anything about my situation and this policy, which he had evidently discussed with them in detail when I wasn?t there. I told them no, he hadn’t.
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March 28th, 2004 . by Alexander Fisher
The world seems to be going at 300 miles an hour for me right now. I am commuting to Columbus from home on Mondays and then returning on Friday nights, about 300 miles round trip. My new job is interesting, but not about to get me that apartment at the Hancock building. I’ll get what I can from it and let the rest fall into place.
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January 1st, 2004 . by Alexander Fisher
Just when you think you have gotton to the point when you don’t think that you’re going to write 2002 anymore, all of a sudden it’s 2004. At least for the first month I will write the date on everything important as 2003 or 03. Especially checks. There are times during the year when I actually have a lapse and write 1987 or something.
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