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We have an intern at work in San Mateo, from a grad school back in Ohio. I pointed at upcoming.yahoo.org as a way to find out about geek social events, but are there other good general sites to find social events on the Peninsula? He seems interested in the arts, not so much in hiking, but i'm passing on the transit to trails information from Bay Nature.
The poor guy: we're all mostly introverted over 40 year olds. He's thinking of going to LA to see friends this long weekend to keep from going crazy in his apartment.
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I got most of the performance appraisals done yesterday after procrastinating all Wednesday. One left. I realize that a significant portion of my frustration/blues around struggling to get to a positive frame. I grew up with my mother training me in criticism first, and know that that is not a helpful frame. I did eventually slip into a positive frame and that helped, but i still want to be respectful of the work someone has done and need to read back and review.
I realize that from that 7 am Tuesday phone call to the evening yesterday when i'd finished talking to folks, i hadn't really been present. I came home to find Christine in a deep blue place, angry and shut down. I tried to do what i could, and tried not to blame my second absence (here but not here, all caught up in work).
The poor guy: we're all mostly introverted over 40 year olds. He's thinking of going to LA to see friends this long weekend to keep from going crazy in his apartment.
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I got most of the performance appraisals done yesterday after procrastinating all Wednesday. One left. I realize that a significant portion of my frustration/blues around struggling to get to a positive frame. I grew up with my mother training me in criticism first, and know that that is not a helpful frame. I did eventually slip into a positive frame and that helped, but i still want to be respectful of the work someone has done and need to read back and review.
I realize that from that 7 am Tuesday phone call to the evening yesterday when i'd finished talking to folks, i hadn't really been present. I came home to find Christine in a deep blue place, angry and shut down. I tried to do what i could, and tried not to blame my second absence (here but not here, all caught up in work).