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grammarwomanI get into vicious cycles sometimes, where I go to bed too late and wake up tired, then fall into a zombie lull of "One more thing"s at night that gets me to bed too late, and so on. For the most part, I manage to catch up on the weekends, but man, it's hell during the week. And it's all my fault! Self, why you gotta be so mean?
Work is being so weird. Instead of tilting at VB6 and Fortran windmills like the rest of IS at my office, I'm now a web developer who's technically part of the team two states away. As a result, I keep running into distance issues, like not being on the same domain and therefore denied access to any data without specific requests, nor being able to lean over to the neighboring cube for help, and basically existing in a state of helpless WTF. I luckily found a wonderful woman to mentor me over IM (because I can save a text file of that, dammit, and refer to it later. Why the hell do people use phones for exchanging information?), who has infinite patience with me bugging her at random intervals. Every so often, they try to assign a project to me that is waaaay over my head, and I have grin through my bruised-ego pain as I tell them, "I don't know how to do that, and I certainly can't do that in that timeline." Otherwise, I am fine with "replace this file" or "update this link" assignments, which don't take that long.
I should fill in the extra hours with training, but all my tired brain wants to do is read fic and interesting links.
Say, for example:
What if "Doctor Who" had English actresses in the lead role for the run of the series? Check out this list for some interesting suggestions.
Or if TPTB had used American actors? Fascinating choices here.
But seriously, why did no one mention that Mayim Bialik, she of the amazing "Blossom" and Amy Farrah Fowler on TBBT, has her own blog on the Jewish parenting site Kveller? First off, she's a talented writer, which in my mind puts her up for polymath-dom, considering she's also a talented actor and has a PhD in neuroscience. She's a published author on attachment parenting. She's a self-proclaimed "tomboy/feminist" who has never shaved her legs. She's a proponent of homebirths. She objects to Disney's princess culture (which is a bit easier for her to do, considering she has two sons). She is deeply, devoutly involved in what she refers to as "Modern Orthodox Judaism". For juggling all that, she is my hero.
I'm looking forward to working from home tomorrow, though considering it's because the Emperor is off from school, it may veer wildly from working to "working", AKA "Please stop bugging me for [X]!" Hope you all have a lovely Friday!
Work is being so weird. Instead of tilting at VB6 and Fortran windmills like the rest of IS at my office, I'm now a web developer who's technically part of the team two states away. As a result, I keep running into distance issues, like not being on the same domain and therefore denied access to any data without specific requests, nor being able to lean over to the neighboring cube for help, and basically existing in a state of helpless WTF. I luckily found a wonderful woman to mentor me over IM (because I can save a text file of that, dammit, and refer to it later. Why the hell do people use phones for exchanging information?), who has infinite patience with me bugging her at random intervals. Every so often, they try to assign a project to me that is waaaay over my head, and I have grin through my bruised-ego pain as I tell them, "I don't know how to do that, and I certainly can't do that in that timeline." Otherwise, I am fine with "replace this file" or "update this link" assignments, which don't take that long.
I should fill in the extra hours with training, but all my tired brain wants to do is read fic and interesting links.
Say, for example:
What if "Doctor Who" had English actresses in the lead role for the run of the series? Check out this list for some interesting suggestions.
Or if TPTB had used American actors? Fascinating choices here.
But seriously, why did no one mention that Mayim Bialik, she of the amazing "Blossom" and Amy Farrah Fowler on TBBT, has her own blog on the Jewish parenting site Kveller? First off, she's a talented writer, which in my mind puts her up for polymath-dom, considering she's also a talented actor and has a PhD in neuroscience. She's a published author on attachment parenting. She's a self-proclaimed "tomboy/feminist" who has never shaved her legs. She's a proponent of homebirths. She objects to Disney's princess culture (which is a bit easier for her to do, considering she has two sons). She is deeply, devoutly involved in what she refers to as "Modern Orthodox Judaism". For juggling all that, she is my hero.
I'm looking forward to working from home tomorrow, though considering it's because the Emperor is off from school, it may veer wildly from working to "working", AKA "Please stop bugging me for [X]!" Hope you all have a lovely Friday!
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