"The things that have been stressing me out are in a long, drawn-out endgame and refuse to finalize." Didn't I say that... weeks ago? Well, I'm going to whine about it anyway:
Basically this is so perfectly, finely honed to bother me that it's making me solipsistic: I'm definitely in a simulation, the point of all this is for things to get asymptotically closer to settled without actually getting there and, worse, this is probably some sick form of porn for the teenager who's running the sim on someone's basement computer.
On the plus side, I got into the summer circus intensive I applied to (despite last week's weird letter), and so did my direct report. Plans are in progress: I'm likely to work just on Mondays for those three weeks, just enough to check in with my leads and manager and have lunch with my team. If anything arises that actually needs me to work on it, I've got Wednesdays as a fallback work time, but otherwise: three weeks off this July, avec good excuse!
Also did I mention that![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heisenbug got job offers? Just getting them is fabulous.
Friday was my 5-year anniversary withnorwoodbridge, although we're celebrating tomorrow instead of yesterday because of Schedules. (When the day came around I regretted this: should have taken the day off and gone to see him.) This is a milestone I've only hit once before, and that time I had already married the dude and was working on buying a condo with him, so the feeling of this one is different. Being on the relationship escalator vs not, I guess. It's funny to have these thoughts anyway because every relationship, including the ones with marriage and kids and things, tops out somewhere. As with work and careers, I believe there is such a thing as cruising altitude... it's not like people can actually get ever-closer over the course of 50 years until they actually merge into one uber-being. So, still a neat milestone, and a milestone in my relationship with the bug too, because it means we've been poly for (more than) that long.
Last but not, given my intense need to get out of my own head right now, least: The Broken Earth trilogy starting with The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin, is really fucking good. It took me a while to get into the first book, I think because of my own issues, but the moment I turned the last page I started charging up the Kindle so that I could get books 2 and 3 of the trilogy in front of my eyeballs as soon as humanly possible. I knew they would be good based on their Hugo awards, but I didn't really gain interest until Ursula K le Guin died and I saw the author say "What is the Broken Earth trilogy, if not The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas writ large?" I get what she meant now, and have no concerns about the third book disappointing, which is an awesome feeling.
- Lioness, who already has a Zillian job offer for level N, had a round of interviews on Thursday to try to increase that offer to level N+1. Two of the interviews happened -- one went well, one went more poorly -- and the third rescheduled to Monday OMG WTF.
- heisenbug's two companies BOTH came through with job offers last week, one on Monday and one on Tuesday; the Tuesday offer is really good and is also for the company he wants more, so you'd think this one would be a done deal. BUT HANG ON, I forgot about the step of the process where there are concerns about phrasing in the employment contract *lolsob*.
Basically this is so perfectly, finely honed to bother me that it's making me solipsistic: I'm definitely in a simulation, the point of all this is for things to get asymptotically closer to settled without actually getting there and, worse, this is probably some sick form of porn for the teenager who's running the sim on someone's basement computer.
On the plus side, I got into the summer circus intensive I applied to (despite last week's weird letter), and so did my direct report. Plans are in progress: I'm likely to work just on Mondays for those three weeks, just enough to check in with my leads and manager and have lunch with my team. If anything arises that actually needs me to work on it, I've got Wednesdays as a fallback work time, but otherwise: three weeks off this July, avec good excuse!
Also did I mention that
heisenbug got job offers? Just getting them is fabulous.Friday was my 5-year anniversary with
norwoodbridge, although we're celebrating tomorrow instead of yesterday because of Schedules. (When the day came around I regretted this: should have taken the day off and gone to see him.) This is a milestone I've only hit once before, and that time I had already married the dude and was working on buying a condo with him, so the feeling of this one is different. Being on the relationship escalator vs not, I guess. It's funny to have these thoughts anyway because every relationship, including the ones with marriage and kids and things, tops out somewhere. As with work and careers, I believe there is such a thing as cruising altitude... it's not like people can actually get ever-closer over the course of 50 years until they actually merge into one uber-being. So, still a neat milestone, and a milestone in my relationship with the bug too, because it means we've been poly for (more than) that long. Last but not, given my intense need to get out of my own head right now, least: The Broken Earth trilogy starting with The Fifth Season, by NK Jemisin, is really fucking good. It took me a while to get into the first book, I think because of my own issues, but the moment I turned the last page I started charging up the Kindle so that I could get books 2 and 3 of the trilogy in front of my eyeballs as soon as humanly possible. I knew they would be good based on their Hugo awards, but I didn't really gain interest until Ursula K le Guin died and I saw the author say "What is the Broken Earth trilogy, if not The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas writ large?" I get what she meant now, and have no concerns about the third book disappointing, which is an awesome feeling.
