I'm prone to delete praise. Mainly because I have 2K + messages and I usually just save the stuff that documents work tasks or problems.

I'm having a very strange dinner. Shredded cabbage & tuna in a oriental chicken salad dressing, maple marinated pork thing and ranch wheat thins. I didn't feel like turning on the oven. It isn't too warm inside, but...still no a/c!

I'm prone to delete praise. Mainly because I have 2K + messages and I usually just save the stuff that documents work tasks or problems.

That's why you need a "good stuff" paper file. Just print it out and throw it in there.

Yup. Of course, since I realized that, all the good stuff has been verbal. Or it is covered in my performance evals, so I do have it on hand.

Two pathetic school questions: 1) I have a project I already did a powerpoint on. Now I have to do an "executive summary" to hand in. It should be pretty much the powerpoint, made into sentences, right? 2) I just realized I slightly misinterpreted some of my data, but the prof won't know. Can I just stick with the misinterpretation, or is that Just Wrong?

yeah, I rarely get praise via email. Most of teh stuff I have been deleting is crap about meetings from months ago and outdated data that I emailed to people months and months ago.

1) I have a project I already did a powerpoint on. Now I have to do an "executive summary" to hand in. It should be pretty much the powerpoint, made into sentences, right?

yes, but shorter.

2) I just realized I slightly misinterpreted some of my data, but the prof won't know. Can I just stick with the misinterpretation, or is that Just Wrong?

well, if the assignment is to summarize the powerpoint, then summarize with the misinterpreted data. add a footnote if you feel better.

just my .02

Danke, Vortex. I'll make sure the people who would actually use the data know the truth, but not sweat changing it for the prof.

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I can't remember the last time I actually have been able to keep up in here. How's things? And stuff?

I am vague in my officiousness.

Oh, did I mention the freaky dream I had last night about growing up in decrepit tract housing with a little brother and sister and the actress who played Apollonia on Carnivàle as our mom? There were all sorts of weird guilt-ridden family dynamics going on with more distant relatives (who didn't correspond to any actual relatives) while waiting at a hospital. And rhinoceroses in the back yard.

and the actress who played Apollonia on Carnivàle as our mom?

To me she'll always be the waitress who wanted to go to France in Pee Wee's Big Adventure.