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Sep. 25th, 2005 08:50 pmAm I out of practice blogging, or just out of practice with feeling okay...?
Reading back through my own last 20 entries, I realize that I owe you one bit of very good news: the Office Meanie met with my boss regarding the open position in my group last week, and they mutually agreed that it wasn't a good fit. Yippee! It's true that Silver Fox followed this bit of good news by making a joke about why TBC and I ever got hired, but then I've noticed he rather goes in for one-upsmanship/condescension, and anyway it's true that the group is being more picky with the hiring now than it was when it was smaller and desperate. Hiring has never been a very rational process in any group; and even Dan the Cat says he wouldn't get hired for his own job at this point, if he were applying now. Probably the person we hire won't qualify either, but we'll all like him1 and that will be that.
I read an enjoyable YA duology this weekend: The City of Ember and The People of Sparks by Jeanne Duprau. While the plot of the first one is predictable, I quite enjoyed the setting, the characters and the writing style (apparently that last opinion is controversial, but then a lot of the reviews on Amazon are written bystupid brats young people who haven't yet mastered the art of book reviews). To quote one I rather liked: read it you blast ended screwts!!!
I also got a massage from a therapist I'd never been to before. This wouldn't be interesting except that she thought her mentor, who does a lot of deeper tissue work including Rolfing, could do something about my insanely tight right hand. I may have to follow up on that, since it still gets strained to (what feels like) almost the point of injury in some yoga classes when it isn't warmed up enough. I always worry about stretching it too hard myself, since it is, after all, my right hand, and I need it to be functional. But maybe I could entrust it to a professional. Rolfing sounds intriguing in general, and always has, since it's associated with increased flexibility (much of it is all about loosening up muscle fascia). The hand might be a good, specific way to see how effective work like that really can be for me.
Something else I never mentioned: I stabbed myself in the palm with an archival-ink pen early in the week, and now have every sign of having a one-dot tattoo. Shall I, in the future, claim I got this tattoo for personal reasons, to remind myself of how tiny my personal speck of life is in the wide universe? Or shall I admit the ignominious truth? Or shall I just hope nobody ever notices? The pen says the ink is meant for acid-free environments, so I guess the final option is to drop acid and hope for the best. ;)
1 Sexism based on probability alone; in the last 1.25 years there haven't been any female applicants for a position in my group, or at least none who made it to the interview phase. It's weird.
Reading back through my own last 20 entries, I realize that I owe you one bit of very good news: the Office Meanie met with my boss regarding the open position in my group last week, and they mutually agreed that it wasn't a good fit. Yippee! It's true that Silver Fox followed this bit of good news by making a joke about why TBC and I ever got hired, but then I've noticed he rather goes in for one-upsmanship/condescension, and anyway it's true that the group is being more picky with the hiring now than it was when it was smaller and desperate. Hiring has never been a very rational process in any group; and even Dan the Cat says he wouldn't get hired for his own job at this point, if he were applying now. Probably the person we hire won't qualify either, but we'll all like him1 and that will be that.
I read an enjoyable YA duology this weekend: The City of Ember and The People of Sparks by Jeanne Duprau. While the plot of the first one is predictable, I quite enjoyed the setting, the characters and the writing style (apparently that last opinion is controversial, but then a lot of the reviews on Amazon are written by
I also got a massage from a therapist I'd never been to before. This wouldn't be interesting except that she thought her mentor, who does a lot of deeper tissue work including Rolfing, could do something about my insanely tight right hand. I may have to follow up on that, since it still gets strained to (what feels like) almost the point of injury in some yoga classes when it isn't warmed up enough. I always worry about stretching it too hard myself, since it is, after all, my right hand, and I need it to be functional. But maybe I could entrust it to a professional. Rolfing sounds intriguing in general, and always has, since it's associated with increased flexibility (much of it is all about loosening up muscle fascia). The hand might be a good, specific way to see how effective work like that really can be for me.
Something else I never mentioned: I stabbed myself in the palm with an archival-ink pen early in the week, and now have every sign of having a one-dot tattoo. Shall I, in the future, claim I got this tattoo for personal reasons, to remind myself of how tiny my personal speck of life is in the wide universe? Or shall I admit the ignominious truth? Or shall I just hope nobody ever notices? The pen says the ink is meant for acid-free environments, so I guess the final option is to drop acid and hope for the best. ;)
1 Sexism based on probability alone; in the last 1.25 years there haven't been any female applicants for a position in my group, or at least none who made it to the interview phase. It's weird.
