Maybe you can take up meditation while you would rather be working?
This is a brilliant plan
Serenity now!
River: I didn't think you'd come for me. Simon: Well, you're a dummy.
'Serenity'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - May 13, 2014 6:21:17 pm PDT #27672 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
§ ita § - May 13, 2014 6:29:10 pm PDT #27673 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Maybe you can take up meditation while you would rather be working?
Theoretically I have a couple big projects rolling my way...sometime soon, if I survive (they've canned two brilliant women from my org chart hierarchy--I'm feeling less shiny about this whole thing again), and maybe that's what I need to do to keep my head in the meanwhile.
But what do you put on your timesheet? "Getting saner--3.5 hours"?
Aurelia I'm glad you had a good service. It should be okay to snarl "Pretty fucking [zen/awful/okay/desirous of isolation]!" to people who know they're not the first to ask you about a loss (which, you know, everyone should assume). I'm sad it's not. Snarling is good for the heart.
-t - May 13, 2014 6:50:29 pm PDT #27674 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
But what do you put on your timesheet? "Getting saner--3.5 hours"?
Envisioning long-term success. Big picture strategizing. Improving morale.
Burrell - May 13, 2014 6:53:10 pm PDT #27675 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
But what do you put on your timesheet?
Put down whatever project is in closest proximity
flea - May 13, 2014 10:31:27 pm PDT #27676 of 30000
information libertarian
Oh, I have a new house to hanker for. Since it is at the veeeeery upper limit of what we can afford I am half-hoping it sells before we see it (which we have NO TIME to do before the weekend.) [link]
Calli - May 14, 2014 1:17:09 am PDT #27677 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That's pretty, flea. Lovely back yard.
Theodosia - May 14, 2014 2:05:57 am PDT #27678 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
That would be a house worth lusting after, and INVESTING in.
Jesse - May 14, 2014 2:39:45 am PDT #27679 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That house has the kitchen floor my mother wouldn't let me get!
But what do you put on your timesheet? "Getting saner--3.5 hours"?
Ever more grateful I've never had to fill out a project-based timesheet. I once had a jackass boss who did a project of making us account for every 15 minutes for a while, and that was a g.d. nightmare. "Complaining about this report" = "Coordinating with colleagues."
-t - May 14, 2014 3:29:08 am PDT #27680 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I'll have to remember that one. I don't have to do timesheets but thats a good phrase to have in my back pocket.
meara - May 14, 2014 3:57:55 am PDT #27681 of 30000
Ugh, we have very limited options of things to put on our time sheets, and certain expectations of how many hours we would bill based on our assignments--and sometimes that is so off. Travel days are easy though--X hours on plane, Y hours at the site, done. It's the at home days that get complicated.
Flea, I want that house, it's super! Maybe not the New Yorker covered bathroom. But the rest of it.