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Bye-bye inlaws
Oct. 21st, 2004 10:05 pmAhhhhhhh... they're gone. The house is quiet, nobody's itching to use this computer except me, I don't have to do silly social things like, say, being dressed beyond PJs as I type this. Most importantly, of course, I finally got an hour alone with my bug so we could make up for the last week of forced celibacy. :) I've had this tic going on in my left eyelid since last weekend, which has been driving me nuts, and it was a whole lot less twitchy today. A couple of decent nights of sleep and maybe it will go entirely away.
Various things I've forgotten to post:
* Someone else got fired from Politic Frog yesterday, and this time it was the QA manager--the person, ironically, who told me I had nothing to worry about as long as I was reporting to Tigger, since he's so good about working with people. (Now that Tigger has fired her, is she remembering that conversaton like I am?) However, it's hard to freak out since in all three firings I know of now, I also know significant work was put into them before they were let go... Tigger was coaching this woman weekly for a long time... and I did just have that really good performance review. No, clearly you can't slack off for months on end at this job, and you can't get away with being an asshole, but neither am I too worried at the moment.
* It's been a month since the tube plugging... and counting down.
* There was a really neat Rodin sculpture garden on the Stanford campus. I had never seen The Gates of Hell before (damn, pictures of it don't look right at all)... I hadn't even known The Thinker was just a part of a larger work. There was so much to look at in that sculpture I felt like an autistic... having to see and notice all the details. But we also got a picture of me licking the nose of one of the Burghers of Calais, so I guess my capacity for reverence was limited. Ah well. ;)
* I'm facing up to the idea of never getting my TKD black belt. ( Or, hell, never going back from this month off at all... )
Various things I've forgotten to post:
* Someone else got fired from Politic Frog yesterday, and this time it was the QA manager--the person, ironically, who told me I had nothing to worry about as long as I was reporting to Tigger, since he's so good about working with people. (Now that Tigger has fired her, is she remembering that conversaton like I am?) However, it's hard to freak out since in all three firings I know of now, I also know significant work was put into them before they were let go... Tigger was coaching this woman weekly for a long time... and I did just have that really good performance review. No, clearly you can't slack off for months on end at this job, and you can't get away with being an asshole, but neither am I too worried at the moment.
* It's been a month since the tube plugging... and counting down.
* There was a really neat Rodin sculpture garden on the Stanford campus. I had never seen The Gates of Hell before (damn, pictures of it don't look right at all)... I hadn't even known The Thinker was just a part of a larger work. There was so much to look at in that sculpture I felt like an autistic... having to see and notice all the details. But we also got a picture of me licking the nose of one of the Burghers of Calais, so I guess my capacity for reverence was limited. Ah well. ;)
* I'm facing up to the idea of never getting my TKD black belt. ( Or, hell, never going back from this month off at all... )
