Crazy Week
The past couple of weeks have been particularly crazy.
Work is blowing up on me with my boss having told me to rewrite a spec that was approved months ago, add some additional stuff to it, and have the whole thing ready to go in two weeks. This while the user community I need to run this by has been out of their office. That's been fun. I've also been had everything else that was moving forward that needs attention and time while I'm trying to do the impossible, and other projects have been blowing up because one person has been on long term leave for 2 months, another has had the flu, and a third is a new hire, meaning that I get tapped for additional help and support. Honestly it wouldn't be so bad if everything weren't hitting at the same time, but I suppose this is one of the heavy periods for academic environments - right before classes begin.
In my personal life, my cool as shit sister, who moved to Baltimore this past fall, is now moving away to Chicago. This has me more than a little depressed. We'd been getting along really well for the first times in our lives, discovering that during the years that we weren't really talking (originally because of some issues early in our lives and then because we didn't care enough to make contact a priority) that we had become very similar in a lot of ways, and building a relationship that is more friendship than family. I was there for her when she was looking for jobs out in this area, when her job was treating her like shit, when she got fired because her boss was an asshole misogynist. I helped her get her resume cleaned up and streamlined, talked to her when she was worried that she hadn't received any calls within the first week of getting her resume out, and supportive through the various interviews and life bumps. During all of this, we'd periodically get together to relax, play video games, and eat good food. I didn't get to see enough of her while she was living nearby, both of us of have been crazy busy over the last year, and now it will take an airplane instead of a 1 1/2 hour drive for us to arrange a visit.
On the positive side, a friend and his SO from Michigan is going to be staying with us for the next little while they get their feet under them with jobs and looking for a place to live and all of that jazz. This, of course, is not going to make life any less busy for the next while, but it will be nice having good people around. Plus, they asked me to teach them a bit about cooking. I'm so geeked about that. They were supposed to be here between noon and 2 today, but they had car problems on the way down, and it now appears that they won't arrive until 8 or so tonight, with the rest of their belongings joining them sometime tomorrow. Oh well, nothing else seems to be going smoothly these days, why did I expect this to be an exception
Hopefully I'll be able to get everything figured out at work soon, even if I have to put in some evenings to get it all sorted out. As to the rest, well, I'm just going to take things a day at a time, and we'll see where we wind up.
Work is blowing up on me with my boss having told me to rewrite a spec that was approved months ago, add some additional stuff to it, and have the whole thing ready to go in two weeks. This while the user community I need to run this by has been out of their office. That's been fun. I've also been had everything else that was moving forward that needs attention and time while I'm trying to do the impossible, and other projects have been blowing up because one person has been on long term leave for 2 months, another has had the flu, and a third is a new hire, meaning that I get tapped for additional help and support. Honestly it wouldn't be so bad if everything weren't hitting at the same time, but I suppose this is one of the heavy periods for academic environments - right before classes begin.
In my personal life, my cool as shit sister, who moved to Baltimore this past fall, is now moving away to Chicago. This has me more than a little depressed. We'd been getting along really well for the first times in our lives, discovering that during the years that we weren't really talking (originally because of some issues early in our lives and then because we didn't care enough to make contact a priority) that we had become very similar in a lot of ways, and building a relationship that is more friendship than family. I was there for her when she was looking for jobs out in this area, when her job was treating her like shit, when she got fired because her boss was an asshole misogynist. I helped her get her resume cleaned up and streamlined, talked to her when she was worried that she hadn't received any calls within the first week of getting her resume out, and supportive through the various interviews and life bumps. During all of this, we'd periodically get together to relax, play video games, and eat good food. I didn't get to see enough of her while she was living nearby, both of us of have been crazy busy over the last year, and now it will take an airplane instead of a 1 1/2 hour drive for us to arrange a visit.
On the positive side, a friend and his SO from Michigan is going to be staying with us for the next little while they get their feet under them with jobs and looking for a place to live and all of that jazz. This, of course, is not going to make life any less busy for the next while, but it will be nice having good people around. Plus, they asked me to teach them a bit about cooking. I'm so geeked about that. They were supposed to be here between noon and 2 today, but they had car problems on the way down, and it now appears that they won't arrive until 8 or so tonight, with the rest of their belongings joining them sometime tomorrow. Oh well, nothing else seems to be going smoothly these days, why did I expect this to be an exception
Hopefully I'll be able to get everything figured out at work soon, even if I have to put in some evenings to get it all sorted out. As to the rest, well, I'm just going to take things a day at a time, and we'll see where we wind up.