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Work update
Dammit. MS Office upgrade worked. Only a few years late: "I miss pull down menus".
Also, how do I get rid of distracting blue colour scheme? Oh... phew, "silver" is much better. -
Work...
Most productive work-from-home day EVER yesterday. But today I noticed the pretty slides I made on laptop are not so pretty on old version of Powerpoint on desktop, so have spent morning trying to upgrade old old Office on old old desktop. The method recommended by IT didn't work, alternative method doing something but taking ages. If it also ( Read more... ) -
Boring work stuff
New contract signed! Only three and a half weeks after last one ran out! On plus side it's meant I've been much more sensible about work hours (and hardly any guilt about not working on weekends) and taking much more advantage of flexibility I really have, but usually don't take advantage of. On minus side am unpaid for last two pay cycles, and ( Read more... ) -
OMG July already. Books.
Have been quite bad at reading (books) this year - I blame the phone! I can read articles and news and guff wherever I am and not have to think ahead and carry a book (and not need a bag or anything either). I have read a few books on the phone, but...easy to get distracted. Anyway, have been taking reading in a possibly too relaxed way, and I ( Read more... ) -
Grumble grumble
An acquaintance who did his PhD at about same time as me (same uni, same faculty, diff school/dept) was just on the front page of our current institution - apparently he's won some prize I'd never heard of which I wouldn't be that grumbly about, but it was for work he had published in bloody Science a couple of months ago :-P Bloody bloody. -
Um.
Have gone though several cycles of having lists in my head of things to blog about. But I appear to have reached the nadir of the current cycle. Hm. Probably was going to mention:
1. Applied for first real grant. Won't get it, but good to get it out of the way.
2. Finally finished a draft which had been weighing on me for some time. I totally ( Read more... ) -
Unhealth.
Getting a bit stressed at work - I can feel an unhealthy few weeks coming up requiring beer and sugary-salty-fatty food. -
Blargh
So I came in, couldn't log in, did a bit of work on laptop, went to meeting, came back to desk, decided to work on laptop till lunchtime then go home. Local-manager just dropped by and says he applied for computer access extension for me just then (because he knows too well how things work around here), and it should be done already. D'OH! ( Read more... ) -
Bureaucracy
As usual, old contract runs out tomorrow TODAY and new contract is not yet processed. Wonder if I'll have computer access tomorrow? Have decided to be passive-aggressive and not fill in the 'special computer access permission forms' to tide me over until HR sorts itself out. If I can't log in tomorrow, I'm just going to go home ;-)
[yes yes, and ( Read more... ) -
Weekend
Weekend pretty good too. Glad we not tooo committed to going out Fri night - I got in 9:30ish, and was pretty tired... Could prob have managed if we'd gone out as soon as I'd had a shower ( Read more... )