I am having one of those 'nothing to do and no impulse to come up with anything to do' at work days. So I looked at my reading page at DW and then I looked at my journal...

Really? March 5th was my last post?

So what have I been up to? I have been trying my hand at playing Civil Exes which is not a fun new board game but rather my attempt to survive ( Read more... )

So yesterday at a meeting it was pointed out that highly educated black professionals don't seem to care to relocate to the South....

This was pointed out by a black scientist who didn't seem to have an idea why this might be so....

Harvard was brought up as an example of successful diversity recruitment...

Hmm.

Whatever could be the cause of this?

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Turns out I will be busy at work over the holiday, mostly nasty animal colony work which is depressing but I can listen to audiobooks and detach ( Read more... )

Random Monday thoughts:

I am on my own at work this week, until Friday at least. Then next week is the short week. I took the Wednesday before Thanksgiving even though I shouldn't because Co-Worker (who I will eventually manage and supervise) got in all her holiday plans without consultation. I didn't want to raise a stink about it; I have no ( Read more... )

Sitting in the open break room at work sipping Cyberpunk tea and nursing a bad headache. I have some work to do but can't seem to settle down to it.

Younger son wanted to discuss All the Bad Things that have ever happened to me this morning. I think he finds it reassuring. I found it depressing. And of course ignoring the elephant in the room wasn't ( Read more... )

Today has been a slow molasses in January day as regards work to do. I have a meeting at 3 pm or I might try and sneak out :)

The meeting at 3 is to discuss the cost of our doing a project. All that talk about money being no object during interviews? So much horse hockey. If they make me turn this one down I seriously don't know what I'll do. That ( Read more... )

Everything is progressing.

I have been shuffling boxes and bins all week-- packing at night, loading the car in the morning, working all (most of) the day, shifting boxes and bins up the stairs to the new place after work, unpacking some, stowing others, taking back the empties to the old place, packing, collapsing.

I am almost afraid the movers will ( Read more... )

 So DW isn't blocked at work, that's good.

I come in early so I can adjust to being here, cry a little, get set for the day. Mostly head work today which is unfortunate cause my head is not a good place to be.

Thinking of asking to shift my schedule to Sat-Wed and work the weekends. I can deal better with no one around (not that there's anyone around ( Read more... )

I think I need an upgrade. This life is slow to connect, takes forever to load and start working, and periodically the screen blanks and nothing works at all.

The seamless upgrade to Windows 10 left me without a printer, a browser, and a working mouse. I have fixed the browser by downgrading to an older version of Chrome, fixed the mouse by ( Read more... )

I am forging ahead with the B5 S2 re-watch, having just finished A Distant Star. That's my episode to recap so I can work on that this weekend. I wanted to get ahead a bit because two episodes in my story gap are next and I need the time to work on writing something for them. I have the germ of an idea for The Long Dark, and Spider in the Web will ( Read more... )