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Hmm, have been exhausted and anti-social again. It's been a fairly up-and-down couple of weeks. I took 3 days off weekend before last, and spent much of it doing absolutely nothing, which made me feel vaguely guilty, as I could have had people come to visit, or gone to see my Mum, but I needed the rest. I did go into town to my supervisor's son's piano recital which was both enjoyable and brave of me to do. Of course, then his neighbour decided that looking around and using mirrors was for amateurs and reversed her van directly into the driver's sit of my car - while I was in the seat looking appalled. I still have to finish organizing getting that fixed.
I went to visit my sister-in-law, who's out to *here* now and doing the 'I know it's possible, but that thing's really not going to fit, I'm sure'. We bought Christmas things for my Mum and some baby clothes with penguins on it. And a mini-santa suit. And a new dress for the holiday party at work (or as my manager said "that december thing").
I didn't have to work through our office Christmas party, despite the possibility of that afternoon shift worker being ill. So that was fun. A bunch of women from the office ditched their husbands and we got together beforehand and actually talked about stuff that wasn't work for an hour or two. I had to leave early, since I was working the 6am shift the next morning, but that went pretty well and nothing blew up.
Spent the day today frantically trying to finish our validation sample work, only to have the QC supervisor phone and ask about 'what about this one and this one that you ran, they don't make sense'. News to me that I ever ran them on that particular instrumet, and in fact I hadn't. I'm interested to see how that pans out, since the group that changed how things were labelled is the one that apparently complains about my groups data all the time (but doesn't bother to complain to *us* about it so we can fix it). The QC supervisor is gradually coming to realize that while we never run things as well as we can for that group - it's not for lack of willingness on our part, but rather lack of information coming in.
Came home to a bill for my new desk (yay, new desk! Shiny! Spacious! weighed an absolute tonne getting it up the stairs! boo - bill), and a Christmas Card from Dine (thank you!).
And a phone call from Mum saying my gran had a stroke. I don't know how to feel about that. I'm too tired to get all upset, and it's not exactly a shock, given that she's 92. But they think she'll have to have care now, and she's been independant her whole life. She's lived alone in that house since my Grandfather died, before I was born, and did everything herself until about 5 years ago. Until about 5 years ago, she was still repainting part of the kitchen annually. I just wish that she wasn't on another continent. Or that I'd fought for time off of work and tagged along with Mum and Dad for a week last time they went for a visit. I was planning to go next year but depending on how well she recovers, she may not even know if I do. And now, actually, having "said" it, I am all upset. So I'm going to go sit in front of the TV and distract myself with tea and my new show.
I went to visit my sister-in-law, who's out to *here* now and doing the 'I know it's possible, but that thing's really not going to fit, I'm sure'. We bought Christmas things for my Mum and some baby clothes with penguins on it. And a mini-santa suit. And a new dress for the holiday party at work (or as my manager said "that december thing").
I didn't have to work through our office Christmas party, despite the possibility of that afternoon shift worker being ill. So that was fun. A bunch of women from the office ditched their husbands and we got together beforehand and actually talked about stuff that wasn't work for an hour or two. I had to leave early, since I was working the 6am shift the next morning, but that went pretty well and nothing blew up.
Spent the day today frantically trying to finish our validation sample work, only to have the QC supervisor phone and ask about 'what about this one and this one that you ran, they don't make sense'. News to me that I ever ran them on that particular instrumet, and in fact I hadn't. I'm interested to see how that pans out, since the group that changed how things were labelled is the one that apparently complains about my groups data all the time (but doesn't bother to complain to *us* about it so we can fix it). The QC supervisor is gradually coming to realize that while we never run things as well as we can for that group - it's not for lack of willingness on our part, but rather lack of information coming in.
Came home to a bill for my new desk (yay, new desk! Shiny! Spacious! weighed an absolute tonne getting it up the stairs! boo - bill), and a Christmas Card from Dine (thank you!).
And a phone call from Mum saying my gran had a stroke. I don't know how to feel about that. I'm too tired to get all upset, and it's not exactly a shock, given that she's 92. But they think she'll have to have care now, and she's been independant her whole life. She's lived alone in that house since my Grandfather died, before I was born, and did everything herself until about 5 years ago. Until about 5 years ago, she was still repainting part of the kitchen annually. I just wish that she wasn't on another continent. Or that I'd fought for time off of work and tagged along with Mum and Dad for a week last time they went for a visit. I was planning to go next year but depending on how well she recovers, she may not even know if I do. And now, actually, having "said" it, I am all upset. So I'm going to go sit in front of the TV and distract myself with tea and my new show.