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Aug. 13th, 2013 06:51 amThings that are making me frustrated:
-Writing five lines of code and then deleting one of them (the variable declaration, as it turns out) is not an acceptable amount of work for two full workdays
-That being said, maybe I shouldn't talk, since I spent a large part of yesterday tracking down a bug where the fix I pushed was... two lines of code. No, wait, three, once the code analyst reviewed my fix and pointed out a better solution to me.
-The fact that I am supposed to be working 3/4 time and have been in the office a minimum of 8 hours every day last week and ramping up to 11 for a couple of them, and I have worked for the last two Saturdays, and that this work schedule is likely to be the case this entire month. And I feel like I never see my kid anymore. (She doesn't actually seem to mind, which is good. I think.)
-Our nanny, who keeps trying to convince me that E's development quirks are because I didn't let her do things she wanted to do with E, despite the fact that this makes no logical, much less biological, sense
-Our new couch and chair from IKEA, which are exuding large amounts of smelly chemicals and so I can't actually use them or even want to be in the same room as them right now
-Me. I can't help thinking that if I worked faster, if I were more efficient, that if I didn't get peevish and irritable if I went more than twelve hours without reading something non-science-related, that if I didn't sometimes have to write down all my frustrations, that I would get a lot more done and my kid would get to see me more.
Things that are making me happy:
-The analyst who's cheerfully putting up with me invading his office every ten minutes and asking if I can try something else on his setup.
-The analyst who is keeping his head down and plugging away at the fifteen things I've asked him to do
-Our nanny, who has been more than happy to put in 12-hour days
-The other kid E shares the nanny with, who is one of the smiling-est happy kids I've ever met
-The fact that I got called for jury duty AFTER this month is over, whew
-Our new couch and chair, which are going to be great once we get them aired out
-going to Yosemite next month with friends, so excited
-A lot of interesting things to read right now, even if I ought to be working rather than reading them
-Eugene Onegin, which still rocks and turns out to be great music to work to
-D, who put together the new couch with E's "help," and who has been spending more time with her lately because of my working working
-My kid, who is honestly the cutest kid in the world :)
-Writing five lines of code and then deleting one of them (the variable declaration, as it turns out) is not an acceptable amount of work for two full workdays
-That being said, maybe I shouldn't talk, since I spent a large part of yesterday tracking down a bug where the fix I pushed was... two lines of code. No, wait, three, once the code analyst reviewed my fix and pointed out a better solution to me.
-The fact that I am supposed to be working 3/4 time and have been in the office a minimum of 8 hours every day last week and ramping up to 11 for a couple of them, and I have worked for the last two Saturdays, and that this work schedule is likely to be the case this entire month. And I feel like I never see my kid anymore. (She doesn't actually seem to mind, which is good. I think.)
-Our nanny, who keeps trying to convince me that E's development quirks are because I didn't let her do things she wanted to do with E, despite the fact that this makes no logical, much less biological, sense
-Our new couch and chair from IKEA, which are exuding large amounts of smelly chemicals and so I can't actually use them or even want to be in the same room as them right now
-Me. I can't help thinking that if I worked faster, if I were more efficient, that if I didn't get peevish and irritable if I went more than twelve hours without reading something non-science-related, that if I didn't sometimes have to write down all my frustrations, that I would get a lot more done and my kid would get to see me more.
Things that are making me happy:
-The analyst who's cheerfully putting up with me invading his office every ten minutes and asking if I can try something else on his setup.
-The analyst who is keeping his head down and plugging away at the fifteen things I've asked him to do
-Our nanny, who has been more than happy to put in 12-hour days
-The other kid E shares the nanny with, who is one of the smiling-est happy kids I've ever met
-The fact that I got called for jury duty AFTER this month is over, whew
-Our new couch and chair, which are going to be great once we get them aired out
-going to Yosemite next month with friends, so excited
-A lot of interesting things to read right now, even if I ought to be working rather than reading them
-Eugene Onegin, which still rocks and turns out to be great music to work to
-D, who put together the new couch with E's "help," and who has been spending more time with her lately because of my working working
-My kid, who is honestly the cutest kid in the world :)
