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[godream]

So I know part of why I make the medium-sized bucks is ability to take a loosely-defined goal and turn in into solid achievable tasks. (Can you tell it's performance-review season?) But I gotta say, after a long night at work, it is sort of relieving to come home and face a clear task with obvious measurable completion.

Case in point: I came home tonight and took out the trash. It took like five minutes and it's clear that I really knocked that task out of the park. Kind of satisfying. That trash will never ever be back to haunt me again. On the other hand, the really stupid layout problems that I was fruitlessly chasing at work tonight (and pretty much all last week) -- I'm not sure if I solved them in the correct fashion, and I can pretty much guarantee that I haven't seen the last of them. Gaaah.

On the other hand, the IE bugs don't smell bad. (Although some of my solutions are distinctly fishy.)

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[rk624.livejournal.com]

oh man, i hear you on that. one day last week i came home at like 10 and then spent three hours making fairly elaborate cookies. it was good to completely unequivocally succeed at something.

[godream.livejournal.com]

RACHEL! long time no see. :) how's life?

mmm, elaborate cookies. what kind?

[rk624.livejournal.com]

Life is good. Work is good, though sometimes stressful. I love the choirs I'm in, though I am only going to stay in one of them (Seattle Women's Chorus) going forward because I would like to replace my structured extracurriculars (some of them, at least) with things like "cooking", "reading", "sleeping", and "unstructured social interaction". And maybe "dating", but that's kind of crazy man I don't know.

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[flexagon]

But the nice thing about ongoing, messy problems is ongoing, gainful employment with an ongoing, steady salary. ;)

It's too bad you have to do spring perf. I'm doing it too, if it makes you feel any better... it's optional for me this year but my boss really wants me to do it so that he can write nice things, and that's so sweet of him that I agreed to do it.

I think my plan for psychological survival is heavy caffeination -> writing self-evaluation -> ping-pong, in quick succession, one of these mornings.

[godream.livejournal.com]

Haha, very true.

I didn't have to do perf at all in the fall (on grounds of having worked here for all of ten minutes -- what're they going to judge me on, attending orientation classes?...) so having to do it now isn't a surprise. :P I figure it's a good thing, everyone'll be less rushed and stressed out about their peer reviews since they'll have fewer to write right?

A is your boss now right? He seemed like a pretty awesome manager for the super short period that I was on that team, I'm glad it's working out.

I'm actually kind of surprised about how quiet people are about whether they're perfing and all that jazz -- with all the peer review I somehow thought it would be a less inherently private process, but I guess it makes sense, it is kinda personal. Hm...

[flexagon]

Right, spring perf is usually for fall hires (like you) and for people who're up for promotion. Since people's levels have historically been private (revealed only to people who are invited to peer review them, and to managers), and they lose face if they're up for a promotion and don't get it, yeah, people are cagey about all that... sigh... welcome to the non-transparent side of the company.

Pleasantly, there's much less caginess in the fall since everyone knows that everyone is doing it.

A is indeed my boss, and I appreciate that fact a great deal. I give everyone code names on my LJ, and I've decided his name is Galahad. :)