"Whatever you do, you'll..."
It's always too easy to remember what a bad day feels like. And just bad days in general - the kinds of days when things, *the world* - just feel *off*...The kinds of days that just need to end.
Which is why it's so important, I think, to also remember what a *really good* day feels like. The kind that leaves me hoping it can keep going for a bit more, and the kind that, at the end, leaves me entirely satisfied. With the day - and even with myself.
I mean, as always, little things. The requests that came in at work were all interesting, and not frustrating. None of that "here is a list of several dozen cases that I'm too lazy to pull myself, and don't trust my secretary to pull, but hey, I trust you guys, isn't that what you're here for?" nonsense. Or, for that matter, nothing like questions that I have no idea how to even *begin* approaching. Instead, things I am entirely comfortable working on - can I get some kind of treatise commentary on a particular provision of the New York Business Corporation Law, and, oh, so, I found this article on JSTOR, can we get it (...given that it's in a major economics journal, which we also have available via EBSCO Business Source Premier, yes, yes we can), and a few more along these lines, and then, hey, how the hell is it eight-thirty in the evening already?!?
Granted, another hour taken up by another conference call always helps. Oh, and it *really* helps that the call is about something I'm really into - *have been* really into (implementing a library request/workflow management system) - for almost as long as I *have* been working as a professional librarian! Hey, we're now really in the final stage of that process, which means that in the next few weeks, we can go from talking *about* implementing one, and deciding which specific one to implement - to managing the actual process!
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Then, home, the latest episodes of Iron-Blooded Orphans and Grimgar, both shows now *really* barreling down towards the end of the season/the end of the whole thing, and so, with both, the sense of "this is SO not going to end well" is building up by the minute!
(...I'm also what, like three eps from the end of So-Ra-No-Wo-To. Really behind on Lupin and Dimension W. *Way* behind on Durarara. Oh, want to *start* Gate. And, of course, looking forward like whoa to Joker Game and Kiznaiver! But then again, at least re/Kiznaiver, so is like everyone else...)
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As always, yeah, yeah, there are still projects I need to be working on. Or starting. Or, uh, finishing. Or at least *managing*. But there is also travel coming up next month, and possibly the month after that, and definitely two and a half months after that, and instead of stumbling towards Santa Monica, I can, dude, take a train to Santa Monica!!!
...there are also other things that are currently *in the process* of happening. And will happen in due time.
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I like these kinds of days.
I like where I am?
(::congratulations?::)
Which is why it's so important, I think, to also remember what a *really good* day feels like. The kind that leaves me hoping it can keep going for a bit more, and the kind that, at the end, leaves me entirely satisfied. With the day - and even with myself.
I mean, as always, little things. The requests that came in at work were all interesting, and not frustrating. None of that "here is a list of several dozen cases that I'm too lazy to pull myself, and don't trust my secretary to pull, but hey, I trust you guys, isn't that what you're here for?" nonsense. Or, for that matter, nothing like questions that I have no idea how to even *begin* approaching. Instead, things I am entirely comfortable working on - can I get some kind of treatise commentary on a particular provision of the New York Business Corporation Law, and, oh, so, I found this article on JSTOR, can we get it (...given that it's in a major economics journal, which we also have available via EBSCO Business Source Premier, yes, yes we can), and a few more along these lines, and then, hey, how the hell is it eight-thirty in the evening already?!?
Granted, another hour taken up by another conference call always helps. Oh, and it *really* helps that the call is about something I'm really into - *have been* really into (implementing a library request/workflow management system) - for almost as long as I *have* been working as a professional librarian! Hey, we're now really in the final stage of that process, which means that in the next few weeks, we can go from talking *about* implementing one, and deciding which specific one to implement - to managing the actual process!
---
Then, home, the latest episodes of Iron-Blooded Orphans and Grimgar, both shows now *really* barreling down towards the end of the season/the end of the whole thing, and so, with both, the sense of "this is SO not going to end well" is building up by the minute!
(...I'm also what, like three eps from the end of So-Ra-No-Wo-To. Really behind on Lupin and Dimension W. *Way* behind on Durarara. Oh, want to *start* Gate. And, of course, looking forward like whoa to Joker Game and Kiznaiver! But then again, at least re/Kiznaiver, so is like everyone else...)
---
As always, yeah, yeah, there are still projects I need to be working on. Or starting. Or, uh, finishing. Or at least *managing*. But there is also travel coming up next month, and possibly the month after that, and definitely two and a half months after that, and instead of stumbling towards Santa Monica, I can, dude, take a train to Santa Monica!!!
...there are also other things that are currently *in the process* of happening. And will happen in due time.
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I like these kinds of days.
I like where I am?
(::congratulations?::)