Feb. 21st, 2009 10:35 pm
Tactical social errors
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mizarchivistSo, some factors that have caused me to swing much more to introvert this week:
- my work stuff: dealing with new interns, meetings, tech logistics that are out of my comfort zone by a lot, and a cluster-fuck that isn't technically something that I have to deal with or is my fault, but still sucks
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quiet_elegance 's work stuff: laid off for a few weeks. Now, before you flip out on me, keep in mind this isn't tech job laid off where you have to start all over. This is carpenter laid off, which means between projects. Mind you, last time it was for 3 months. This is not going to happen like that this time. But as I'm the primary worrier (and bill payer- hm, you'd think there's a correlation there or something) I worry anyway, more than q_e by a bit.
- my phone is breaking. It's a flip phone and one of the joints that holds it together has given up the ghost. I don't want to deal with buying a new phone right now. Really. I hate-hate-hate Verizon. They make me pay for my texting, so I don't as much as possible. Also, I don't have a full sized keyboard, which makes it way slow. Next one I will give up and get one with a real keyboard. This may be sooner than later
- logistics for the see-my-in-laws trip in early April are now done, but the misunderstanding with my SiL was pretty spectacular and I failed the booking lottery by a day and the price tag for this trip is now at least $150 more expensive, which always pisses me off. But, it's done.
- I'm still overly congested. Not as sick aspurple_terror by a fair bit, but I can't go for long without a tissue.
And with these non-life threatening but niggly/stressful things buzzing about me, I decide to go to a notoriously busy hot foods party? Hah! I hid. So, if you didn't see me or didn't see me for more than 30 seconds, that would be why. Sorry. I didn't realize how appropriate my "Do you want to check your hit points . . . before or after I slap you?" would be when I put it on :/
The plus field:
+ I still don't work down a mine (best said with a Yorkshire accent)
+ The Proactiv treatment is a bit slow, but there was a LOT a lot of damage, which is now in repair rather than have more of stage. I've been keeping pretty steady with the photo journaling of it, but given my usual lighting conditions, I'm not sure it's helpful. All of the pics have me looking pained (that I'm taking my own picture) and exhausted usually. But still: soon! Soon, my skin won't look like a war zone.
+ Despite illness, I stuck to 3x/week gym plan and I feel like my efforts over the last many months are yielding visible results that are obvious to myself and my companions.
+ I've had several good small-group encounters this week and two separate ones today, even.
It seemed a good and wise thing to balance the bad list with a good one.
- my work stuff: dealing with new interns, meetings, tech logistics that are out of my comfort zone by a lot, and a cluster-fuck that isn't technically something that I have to deal with or is my fault, but still sucks
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quiet_elegance 's work stuff: laid off for a few weeks. Now, before you flip out on me, keep in mind this isn't tech job laid off where you have to start all over. This is carpenter laid off, which means between projects. Mind you, last time it was for 3 months. This is not going to happen like that this time. But as I'm the primary worrier (and bill payer- hm, you'd think there's a correlation there or something) I worry anyway, more than q_e by a bit. - my phone is breaking. It's a flip phone and one of the joints that holds it together has given up the ghost. I don't want to deal with buying a new phone right now. Really. I hate-hate-hate Verizon. They make me pay for my texting, so I don't as much as possible. Also, I don't have a full sized keyboard, which makes it way slow. Next one I will give up and get one with a real keyboard. This may be sooner than later
- logistics for the see-my-in-laws trip in early April are now done, but the misunderstanding with my SiL was pretty spectacular and I failed the booking lottery by a day and the price tag for this trip is now at least $150 more expensive, which always pisses me off. But, it's done.
- I'm still overly congested. Not as sick as
purple_terror by a fair bit, but I can't go for long without a tissue.And with these non-life threatening but niggly/stressful things buzzing about me, I decide to go to a notoriously busy hot foods party? Hah! I hid. So, if you didn't see me or didn't see me for more than 30 seconds, that would be why. Sorry. I didn't realize how appropriate my "Do you want to check your hit points . . . before or after I slap you?" would be when I put it on :/
The plus field:
+ I still don't work down a mine (best said with a Yorkshire accent)
+ The Proactiv treatment is a bit slow, but there was a LOT a lot of damage, which is now in repair rather than have more of stage. I've been keeping pretty steady with the photo journaling of it, but given my usual lighting conditions, I'm not sure it's helpful. All of the pics have me looking pained (that I'm taking my own picture) and exhausted usually. But still: soon! Soon, my skin won't look like a war zone.
+ Despite illness, I stuck to 3x/week gym plan and I feel like my efforts over the last many months are yielding visible results that are obvious to myself and my companions.
+ I've had several good small-group encounters this week and two separate ones today, even.
It seemed a good and wise thing to balance the bad list with a good one.
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