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October 6th, 2010
It's almost 8 am, eeek. And now it's 8 am. So, what to say for myself?
There's journalling and there's logging. I've found the log nature of this journal incredibly helpful: i just never know what will be helpful in the future. I'm pondering that i could start keeping (even more cryptic) notes separately and log them here, so that i would know (for example) to go listen to the audio notes i made right after therapy these past two visits if i really want to remember the power of those visits.
I'd like, however, to assimilate the experience of therapy through journalling.
Healthwise ( not bad, but cankers and eczema continue. )
Yesterday at work i had a very productive team meeting to work through a design element of a data loading process. I feel that came to a good resolution. We had a very long team meeting of just developers, with folks back after training. I'm not sure how that went for the team. We have a number of folks who are reticent and reserved and the new guy is an extrovert and leader and i'm a leader and it's hard to engage some of the team in group-process problem solving (what is working and what isn't in our iteration process?). The day started with a 7 am meeting where i gave a lousy-powerpoint review of our development roadmap and my email client suddenly corrupted itself. I'm happy the 8 am meeting was canceled, so that there were two unscheduled hours before the block of meetings resumed until 4.
Today is revisiting email from my absence and that i missed yesterday. I need to not become overwhelmed as i read stuff. Already i am annoyed at a responsibility to track down an enthusiastic airhead colleague from whom i need information, and whom i've determined really rushes his thinking and holds fast to assumptions. Blech. I recognize, there's a part of me that wants to make this his problem, because i find him hard to communicate with, but it's possible i could just resolve things the way they probably should be resolved, letting him be blissfully ignorant of the process. It would be easier, wouldn't it? And perhaps it's the right thing to do?
I forget where i am in the cycle of goals: i'll go to my Self goals as a starting place.
I've determined that florescent bulbs drop in intensity rapidly over the first few years: the rate of decline is slower after the initial drop. Thus, i will not replace the bulbs in my light box or over my couch seat. I had feared that the drop became precipitous towards the end of life of the bulbs, but the intensity has been satisfactory for years.
I'm still forgetting to do squats in the evening. We walked last night, i walked much on Saturday, and i'm not sure what the pattern was before vacation. The early dark is an issue that i expect to resolve with the bike on the exercise stand: i need to create a fender for it.
Yule planning needs to go forward. I am advised with respect to New Years cards for colleagues: i should buy the cards. Christine has picked out Christmas cards but i think we have TONS. (We agree not to buy more; also i will use the existing stock as holders for whatever New Years image i may create.) I've sent a message to siblings about gift exchange expectations.
There's journalling and there's logging. I've found the log nature of this journal incredibly helpful: i just never know what will be helpful in the future. I'm pondering that i could start keeping (even more cryptic) notes separately and log them here, so that i would know (for example) to go listen to the audio notes i made right after therapy these past two visits if i really want to remember the power of those visits.
I'd like, however, to assimilate the experience of therapy through journalling.
Healthwise ( not bad, but cankers and eczema continue. )
Yesterday at work i had a very productive team meeting to work through a design element of a data loading process. I feel that came to a good resolution. We had a very long team meeting of just developers, with folks back after training. I'm not sure how that went for the team. We have a number of folks who are reticent and reserved and the new guy is an extrovert and leader and i'm a leader and it's hard to engage some of the team in group-process problem solving (what is working and what isn't in our iteration process?). The day started with a 7 am meeting where i gave a lousy-powerpoint review of our development roadmap and my email client suddenly corrupted itself. I'm happy the 8 am meeting was canceled, so that there were two unscheduled hours before the block of meetings resumed until 4.
Today is revisiting email from my absence and that i missed yesterday. I need to not become overwhelmed as i read stuff. Already i am annoyed at a responsibility to track down an enthusiastic airhead colleague from whom i need information, and whom i've determined really rushes his thinking and holds fast to assumptions. Blech. I recognize, there's a part of me that wants to make this his problem, because i find him hard to communicate with, but it's possible i could just resolve things the way they probably should be resolved, letting him be blissfully ignorant of the process. It would be easier, wouldn't it? And perhaps it's the right thing to do?
I forget where i am in the cycle of goals: i'll go to my Self goals as a starting place.
I've determined that florescent bulbs drop in intensity rapidly over the first few years: the rate of decline is slower after the initial drop. Thus, i will not replace the bulbs in my light box or over my couch seat. I had feared that the drop became precipitous towards the end of life of the bulbs, but the intensity has been satisfactory for years.
I'm still forgetting to do squats in the evening. We walked last night, i walked much on Saturday, and i'm not sure what the pattern was before vacation. The early dark is an issue that i expect to resolve with the bike on the exercise stand: i need to create a fender for it.
Yule planning needs to go forward. I am advised with respect to New Years cards for colleagues: i should buy the cards. Christine has picked out Christmas cards but i think we have TONS. (We agree not to buy more; also i will use the existing stock as holders for whatever New Years image i may create.) I've sent a message to siblings about gift exchange expectations.
My mental health is doing a bit of a down turn today, two weeks after the miraculous (steroid driven?) recovery.
I know i'm telling myself stories, and i should stop.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
daisydumont wrote about the stories one tells from a social anxiety point of view today. While i think i tend to be grounded in the situation she describes (if i even noticed!), my story of being overwhelmed makes seeing this announcement about a piece of software that i'm not even sure i want (but now the better app will be free? if i do what?) triggers a story, "I can't figure this out, it's all so overwhelming, i can't think on my feet, i can't skim this and make heads or tails, it's all too much."
Of course, it's not that i care about Hootsuite that much. It's that i've been practicing that story for months, and today i practice that story with every email i read.
--==∞==--
Tonight's reading rapidly turned to job stuff when i saw the alert from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) that the organization's president had written job advice for every career stage: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350918/20_20_Vision
That lead to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350938/When_Gen_Y_Runs_the_Show which lead to a notice about Linked In Career Explorer. (http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/10/05/nyu-and-linkedin-celebrate-the-launch-of-career-explorer-feature/) That's not generally available, but the Jobs link is interesting and showed me a stack of software management jobs. Were i to stay in the field, and want to move, it occurs to me that i have interesting skills for Amazon. Not super special, but interesting. (They have openings.) Then i poke at the premium Linked In offerings and find that, ha, for $20/mo you can be branded as a job seeker. Um, no thanks.
I know i'm telling myself stories, and i should stop.
daisydumont wrote about the stories one tells from a social anxiety point of view today. While i think i tend to be grounded in the situation she describes (if i even noticed!), my story of being overwhelmed makes seeing this announcement about a piece of software that i'm not even sure i want (but now the better app will be free? if i do what?) triggers a story, "I can't figure this out, it's all so overwhelming, i can't think on my feet, i can't skim this and make heads or tails, it's all too much."Of course, it's not that i care about Hootsuite that much. It's that i've been practicing that story for months, and today i practice that story with every email i read.
--==∞==--
Tonight's reading rapidly turned to job stuff when i saw the alert from the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) that the organization's president had written job advice for every career stage: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350918/20_20_Vision
That lead to http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/350938/When_Gen_Y_Runs_the_Show which lead to a notice about Linked In Career Explorer. (http://nyulocal.com/on-campus/2010/10/05/nyu-and-linkedin-celebrate-the-launch-of-career-explorer-feature/) That's not generally available, but the Jobs link is interesting and showed me a stack of software management jobs. Were i to stay in the field, and want to move, it occurs to me that i have interesting skills for Amazon. Not super special, but interesting. (They have openings.) Then i poke at the premium Linked In offerings and find that, ha, for $20/mo you can be branded as a job seeker. Um, no thanks.
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