Friday random five

[danceswithwords]

1. It was gorgeous and sunny when I was running this morning, but now the fog is blowing in. Ah, summer in San Francisco.


2. I just got an overwhelmingly positive performance review, which was nice (especially since there will be no raises this year--at least there aren't pay cuts), but I find that my ability to believe the feedback is tempered by an

Comments

[brynnmck]

Um... you are brilliant and you work extremely hard, and under conditions that would drive the average person completely insane. Fucking right they gave you a great review.

I hate the impostor syndrome! It makes me sad for all of us.

[danceswithwords]

It's striking how many of us suffer from it to some degree.

At least they seem to recognize that it's not the easiest environment sometimes.

[katie_m]

My "favorite" is the guy who was saying how it's crazy and foreign to pronounce Sotomayor correctly. I mean, what? That doesn't even make sense!

[danceswithwords]

I had had no idea there was any other pronunciation than so-to-may-OR until I saw that. Apparently calling people by the names they use is the first step on the road to apocalypse or something.

[lycomingst]

\0/ Yay! Deadwood! (sneaking in during one of the phases that my internet is working)

[danceswithwords]

It seems like a really well-done show. It's been somewhere on my massive Netflix queue for a while, and now I'm trying to figure out how to carve out some time to move it up.

[sdwolfpup]

I second Brynn - you are more than deserving of a great review. I also suffer from impostor syndrome (except I don't think it's a syndrome so much as the truth, heh), and I genuinely can't believe someone who works as hard as you does as well. You are all things awesome!

I'm so glad you enjoyed the first episode of Deadwood. I love the whole series and they don't lose that grit and brutality AT ALL. In some ways it gets much worse. The season 1 finale is one of my favorite season finales of any show.

[danceswithwords]

See, here I think you are a rockstar at work and admire your work ethic. So we're even!

I love the whole series and they don't lose that grit and brutality AT ALL. In some ways it gets much worse. The season 1 finale is one of my favorite season finales of any show.

In a weird way, that makes me happy to know. I liked how uncompromisingly real it was: no rescues or happy endings, and the one little girl living just a lucky chance (and, given where she's going to live when she heals, maybe, I'm guessing, that chance is not so lucky).

[asta77]

Considering the long hours you put in, the dealing with people who have no idea what they are doing, and the thousand little fires you've had to help put out I'd have been extremely pissed if you didn't receive an awesome review.

[danceswithwords]

The recognition was certainly nice, and as surprising as it was to get, I think I would have been pissed if I'd gotten dinged. Because, yes.