also i'm having a lot of fun with the snowflake challenge
today is apparently national dragon appreciation day. also the ladies' room at work is FUCKING FREEZING. these things are not related.
be sure to appreciate the dragons in your life. and be nice to them, for you are juicy and taste good with ketchup. :D
today at work we had the annual libraries staff breakfast, by which i mean BACON and also recognition of new employees and folks who've been there for multiples of decades. like, two people got thirty-year recognition certificates and pins. thirty years is a long time to work for the same department in the same company. it was fun. mostly it meant we all got to leave our desks for an hour and a half, hang with our libraries colleagues, and at least if you're me eat a truly irresponsible amount of bacon. seriously. so much bacon. (and, you know, scrambled eggs, sausage, breakfast potatoes, french toast, and tiny pastries.) (there was fruit but i didn't have any, because bacon.) like, i didn't have lunch until after three because i wasn't hungry until then. evidently a few years ago they didn't have bacon at the breakfast and there was almost a riot.
the head of hr announced all the folks who started in the last year and asked them to stand for applause when she was done, then the libraries director gave a "here's some cool shit we're doing" speech and presented the decade certificates, then the head of hr came back and announced the temps. and asked us to stand. O.O i've never been publicly recognized as a temp before, in a "these people help us get shit done" kind of way. like i was a real employee really contributing to the success of the libraries. it was actually a little disconcerting, but kind of nice.
i think my interview on tuesday went well. it was weird being interviewed by people i've been working for/with for more than four months already, and everyone kind of acknowledged that and moved on. each set of interviewers had a specific list of questions, mostly about communication styles, time management (the answer to which is "post-its" :D ), prioritization, getting help, some other things i can't remember, a question that was kind of "what do you want to do here and what do you think will help you do it" (and i blanked and eventually came up with "well, more responsibility would be nice..."), and a question that asked for something i've accomplished that i'm proud of. and i had two answers for that! (i may or may not have actually said "oh! i can answer that!" >.< ) the department holiday party i organized last year, and the big meeting that got cut from two hours to one and suffered a tech glitch or two because i only half knew what i was doing. the triumph there was setting up a page on the intranet for the agenda and with links to all the slide presentations and the recording we made of the meeting - it was the first time i did all that shit - and possibly also radiating enough calm to trick people into telling me that i didn't show panic when something wouldn't work right. i got to talk about the very special partner from the old job and how i finally just had to suck it up and make myself deal with her very specialness, and i got a question that must have been about overwork, because it gave me an excuse to mention that when i had too much work at my old job because i was doing other people's jobs in addition to my own, and they told me i'd been letting things slide for too long, and i asked for some help, they said no.
the last interviewee is coming the end of january, so i should know the beginning of february whether i get the job or not. and in the meantime i'm continuing on like i'll be there for a while.
so the magicians is back and i don't miss josh and i don't care about alice. but i miss fen! i want to know what happened in fillory three hundred years ago. eliot is in DESPERATE need of therapy and i wish he'd listen to margo when she tells him he needs to stop self-medicating and start dealing. the play they saw in fillory wasn't wrong - she really is angry all the time. she's still my favorite.
i still can't get into penny 23 and julia. they're a lot of wtf? to me. possibly i still prefer original penny. that said, i'm excited for julia's quest and i kinda liked the pig. he's a gentleman but also a, uh, sexist pig. literally. :D
i really liked the dean's red shoes. penny trying to teach a bunch of kids about traveling, and his first class being basically "don't do it, it will get you killed", was weird but intriguing. i'm curious about the repercussions of there being so much magic everywhere, blowing people's arms off and causing meteor showers to go wild and who knows what else.
still ticked off about everything involved in quentin's death and jason ralph leaving, tho. i mean, i don't hold it against him for wanting to leave, just the way the ptb handled it and the way the writers wrote it.
anyway. i could still enjoy enough of the episode.
high school student goes off to internship at nasa. high school student discovers a planet after only three days. that's something to put on your college applications. :D
there's a convent in new orleans that the nuns are turning into wetlands. it was damaged in hurricane katrina (shocker) so now they're going to use it to try and mitigate the effects of future floods. go science!
be sure to appreciate the dragons in your life. and be nice to them, for you are juicy and taste good with ketchup. :D
today at work we had the annual libraries staff breakfast, by which i mean BACON and also recognition of new employees and folks who've been there for multiples of decades. like, two people got thirty-year recognition certificates and pins. thirty years is a long time to work for the same department in the same company. it was fun. mostly it meant we all got to leave our desks for an hour and a half, hang with our libraries colleagues, and at least if you're me eat a truly irresponsible amount of bacon. seriously. so much bacon. (and, you know, scrambled eggs, sausage, breakfast potatoes, french toast, and tiny pastries.) (there was fruit but i didn't have any, because bacon.) like, i didn't have lunch until after three because i wasn't hungry until then. evidently a few years ago they didn't have bacon at the breakfast and there was almost a riot.
the head of hr announced all the folks who started in the last year and asked them to stand for applause when she was done, then the libraries director gave a "here's some cool shit we're doing" speech and presented the decade certificates, then the head of hr came back and announced the temps. and asked us to stand. O.O i've never been publicly recognized as a temp before, in a "these people help us get shit done" kind of way. like i was a real employee really contributing to the success of the libraries. it was actually a little disconcerting, but kind of nice.
i think my interview on tuesday went well. it was weird being interviewed by people i've been working for/with for more than four months already, and everyone kind of acknowledged that and moved on. each set of interviewers had a specific list of questions, mostly about communication styles, time management (the answer to which is "post-its" :D ), prioritization, getting help, some other things i can't remember, a question that was kind of "what do you want to do here and what do you think will help you do it" (and i blanked and eventually came up with "well, more responsibility would be nice..."), and a question that asked for something i've accomplished that i'm proud of. and i had two answers for that! (i may or may not have actually said "oh! i can answer that!" >.< ) the department holiday party i organized last year, and the big meeting that got cut from two hours to one and suffered a tech glitch or two because i only half knew what i was doing. the triumph there was setting up a page on the intranet for the agenda and with links to all the slide presentations and the recording we made of the meeting - it was the first time i did all that shit - and possibly also radiating enough calm to trick people into telling me that i didn't show panic when something wouldn't work right. i got to talk about the very special partner from the old job and how i finally just had to suck it up and make myself deal with her very specialness, and i got a question that must have been about overwork, because it gave me an excuse to mention that when i had too much work at my old job because i was doing other people's jobs in addition to my own, and they told me i'd been letting things slide for too long, and i asked for some help, they said no.
the last interviewee is coming the end of january, so i should know the beginning of february whether i get the job or not. and in the meantime i'm continuing on like i'll be there for a while.
so the magicians is back and i don't miss josh and i don't care about alice. but i miss fen! i want to know what happened in fillory three hundred years ago. eliot is in DESPERATE need of therapy and i wish he'd listen to margo when she tells him he needs to stop self-medicating and start dealing. the play they saw in fillory wasn't wrong - she really is angry all the time. she's still my favorite.
i still can't get into penny 23 and julia. they're a lot of wtf? to me. possibly i still prefer original penny. that said, i'm excited for julia's quest and i kinda liked the pig. he's a gentleman but also a, uh, sexist pig. literally. :D
i really liked the dean's red shoes. penny trying to teach a bunch of kids about traveling, and his first class being basically "don't do it, it will get you killed", was weird but intriguing. i'm curious about the repercussions of there being so much magic everywhere, blowing people's arms off and causing meteor showers to go wild and who knows what else.
still ticked off about everything involved in quentin's death and jason ralph leaving, tho. i mean, i don't hold it against him for wanting to leave, just the way the ptb handled it and the way the writers wrote it.
anyway. i could still enjoy enough of the episode.
high school student goes off to internship at nasa. high school student discovers a planet after only three days. that's something to put on your college applications. :D
there's a convent in new orleans that the nuns are turning into wetlands. it was damaged in hurricane katrina (shocker) so now they're going to use it to try and mitigate the effects of future floods. go science!