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jianantonicI had a kind of funny realization today at work. My little sister and I have a lot in common, but we're way different in a lot of big ways. Academically, for instance. Our interests barely intersect. I'm way on the humanities side of the spectrum, and she's all sciency. I live in the awesome Pacific Northwest, and for reasons I'm not sure either one of us will ever understand, she's chosen the midwest for her home. As a teenager, I always worked retail, and she worked construction. We've followed very different trajectories. And yet, on the phone this afternoon, we spent about 30 minutes comparing notes on trucking accidents, because somehow we both ended up working jobs that revolve around trucking accidents.
I process insurance claims for the trucking industry, and she works as an environmental consultant, and has to follow up on spills of any kind that happen in truck crashes. I've known one trucker in my entire life. Other than that, I don't think I have ever known anyone whose occupation was even remotely related to the trucking industry, and now both my kid sis and I have jobs in the field. Just strikes me as weird. Actually I guess neither one of us is in the industry, so much as in the business of dealing with their shit.
In other news, the NBA draft is going on right now. I don't follow college hoops enough to really have an opinion about it, but it's still exciting to have news. Blazers fans on Twitter and FB seem to be pretty disappointed with our picks, though. I did read the scouting reports and projections about who everyone thought we'd pick, and while one of those was accurate, we used our #6 pick to get him when he was still projected to be there at #11, our second pick. And the guy we took at #11 is...who? Some white guy from Illinois. I'd never heard his name before, which suggests to me that he was not in any of the scouting reports I read, which further suggests to me that no one expected him to even be a first-round pick. Sigh. Blazers, why you gotta gamble? Best case scenario, it's a gamble that pays off. Worst case? Well, I'm already used to my team sucking a lot. And I still love them anyway.
I process insurance claims for the trucking industry, and she works as an environmental consultant, and has to follow up on spills of any kind that happen in truck crashes. I've known one trucker in my entire life. Other than that, I don't think I have ever known anyone whose occupation was even remotely related to the trucking industry, and now both my kid sis and I have jobs in the field. Just strikes me as weird. Actually I guess neither one of us is in the industry, so much as in the business of dealing with their shit.
In other news, the NBA draft is going on right now. I don't follow college hoops enough to really have an opinion about it, but it's still exciting to have news. Blazers fans on Twitter and FB seem to be pretty disappointed with our picks, though. I did read the scouting reports and projections about who everyone thought we'd pick, and while one of those was accurate, we used our #6 pick to get him when he was still projected to be there at #11, our second pick. And the guy we took at #11 is...who? Some white guy from Illinois. I'd never heard his name before, which suggests to me that he was not in any of the scouting reports I read, which further suggests to me that no one expected him to even be a first-round pick. Sigh. Blazers, why you gotta gamble? Best case scenario, it's a gamble that pays off. Worst case? Well, I'm already used to my team sucking a lot. And I still love them anyway.
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Date: 2012-06-30 09:12 am (UTC)