Katrina, Meanie... hey. That rhymes. :)
Aug. 30th, 2005 08:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonFor those who can't mobilize to go help with Katrina aftermath, I found a place where you can donate to the Red Cross by credit card (and used it). And that, oddly enough, is the first time I've given away money, though there have been many worthy causes. Something about the things I read about New Orleans in What Should I Do With My Life... and now it's hurt. Poor city. Let's help it if we can.
I spent the weekend slowly becoming acclimated to the idea of again working with the Office Meanie, my initial horror tempering itself to a dull acceptance. I worried about it a lot of the day on Saturday. Then I talked to him last night on the phone (for an hour, actually)... I persuaded him that there are plenty of bad/unknown things about the acquisition but he's sending in his resume anyway. And I have mixed feelings now -- I don't hate the meanie, after all, just like him a hell of a lot better when I'm not working with him. How much of his bad behavior really is a thing of the past? And how much was simply enabled, even created by his position at DSB? I didn't behave so well at DSB all the time myself. And, I'm going to have to work with a new person in the team at some point -- it might be easier to adjust to working with a person I know, even if there's a certain tension in getting along with said person. I don't know. I'm alternately aghast at my own softness and my own meanness. I don't want to work with him again, that much is sure, but I don't think I'll really go all-out to blackball him though. For starters, that does nothing with my reputation at Colubrid for getting along with people. I've already expressed some hesitancy about all this, but I'll just have to curl up in the fetal position and let the team decide.
And on the geeky side, I worked a lot on my new screensaver, which is a rather cute little traffic simulator, and wrote an infuriated Amazon review telling everyone in the world to watch out for the index of Practical Common Lisp. I'm finding it an incredibly slow read now, since I have to constantly look useful things up in the index to be sure they're in there (and half the time they're not, so I have to write them in with a pencil).
I spent the weekend slowly becoming acclimated to the idea of again working with the Office Meanie, my initial horror tempering itself to a dull acceptance. I worried about it a lot of the day on Saturday. Then I talked to him last night on the phone (for an hour, actually)... I persuaded him that there are plenty of bad/unknown things about the acquisition but he's sending in his resume anyway. And I have mixed feelings now -- I don't hate the meanie, after all, just like him a hell of a lot better when I'm not working with him. How much of his bad behavior really is a thing of the past? And how much was simply enabled, even created by his position at DSB? I didn't behave so well at DSB all the time myself. And, I'm going to have to work with a new person in the team at some point -- it might be easier to adjust to working with a person I know, even if there's a certain tension in getting along with said person. I don't know. I'm alternately aghast at my own softness and my own meanness. I don't want to work with him again, that much is sure, but I don't think I'll really go all-out to blackball him though. For starters, that does nothing with my reputation at Colubrid for getting along with people. I've already expressed some hesitancy about all this, but I'll just have to curl up in the fetal position and let the team decide.
And on the geeky side, I worked a lot on my new screensaver, which is a rather cute little traffic simulator, and wrote an infuriated Amazon review telling everyone in the world to watch out for the index of Practical Common Lisp. I'm finding it an incredibly slow read now, since I have to constantly look useful things up in the index to be sure they're in there (and half the time they're not, so I have to write them in with a pencil).
