A good week, replete with pleasant surprises and anxiety-ebbs and squirrel nesting. It was, significantly, my last week working full-time; on Friday I somehow had zero meetings and made a lot of progress on things, so it wasn't even painful. This week is calibration, which I'm perfectly well prepared for this time (only three direct reports) and during which I will learn who really does what in my new org. It should be a good time. Lots of listening and learning. The meetings are long and every cycle deserves a fidget toy, so this is where I admit that I bought Crags "magnetic putty" and find it quite satisfying to squish. Or to string out across my desk looking like strings of hematite beads.
The projects I finished up therefore include working full-time, paying 2021 taxes (I'd been waiting for a form to become available in TurboTax), and doing the last workout of one of my Aussie coach's programs. And I mentioned pleasant surprises? Yeah, a direct deposit I wasn't expecting! Nothing like money. Nothing like "failing to understand your company's stock auto-sale plan, which actually is going to pay out in March and April". My situation hadn't been too dire, but cash flow with taxes had been tight enough that I was really watching my bank account to make sure it would be okay, and the extra deposit keeps me from having to dip into savings. Now it's fine, and done, and I get a whole month of not thinking about it before we have to do Q1 2022 taxes.
Nice week on the poly front too.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
heisenbug went on a first date on Wednesday, and the lady in question lives too far away for him to want to see again, but it was still nice for him to have an adventure and me to have the house to myself for an evening. On the other side, the rest of my polycule decided on Tuesday to rally around Perse and help her get through this semester of grading in a really coordinated way, and it feels good to be on a functioning team in which people actually show up for each other. I'll be going over for paper-grading on Friday mornings, which is perfect for me since it'll keep me from being tempted to log into work at Zillian. And maybe I can squeeze my squirrel in passing, after the papers are graded.
Quote of the week, courtesy of Banksy museum exhibit: If you feel dirty, insignificant and unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
I'll admit I'm not sure about that last part... it seems truthy, but might be fudged. The internet says that female rats can have sex 500 times in a six-hour period, but they only come into heat every 4-5 days.
It does feel weird to have personal life getting so much better while the war situation has gotten more and more horrifying. I'm absolutely fascinated by the sanctions on Russia. To quote an article I read, "The most important innovation in this war is the use of the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb, simultaneously deployed by a superpower and by superempowered people." It goes on to talk about how many non-governmental agents have declared their own sanctions without being ordered to -- and my own company is one of these, having turned off all advertising in Russia earlier this week, but there are lots of other companies, and of course loose global consortiums like Anonymous. Cancel culture at scale... maybe in a way this has always been part of the promise of globalization. I'm so curious how this is going to go.
The projects I finished up therefore include working full-time, paying 2021 taxes (I'd been waiting for a form to become available in TurboTax), and doing the last workout of one of my Aussie coach's programs. And I mentioned pleasant surprises? Yeah, a direct deposit I wasn't expecting! Nothing like money. Nothing like "failing to understand your company's stock auto-sale plan, which actually is going to pay out in March and April". My situation hadn't been too dire, but cash flow with taxes had been tight enough that I was really watching my bank account to make sure it would be okay, and the extra deposit keeps me from having to dip into savings. Now it's fine, and done, and I get a whole month of not thinking about it before we have to do Q1 2022 taxes.
Nice week on the poly front too.
heisenbug went on a first date on Wednesday, and the lady in question lives too far away for him to want to see again, but it was still nice for him to have an adventure and me to have the house to myself for an evening. On the other side, the rest of my polycule decided on Tuesday to rally around Perse and help her get through this semester of grading in a really coordinated way, and it feels good to be on a functioning team in which people actually show up for each other. I'll be going over for paper-grading on Friday mornings, which is perfect for me since it'll keep me from being tempted to log into work at Zillian. And maybe I can squeeze my squirrel in passing, after the papers are graded.Quote of the week, courtesy of Banksy museum exhibit: If you feel dirty, insignificant and unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.
I'll admit I'm not sure about that last part... it seems truthy, but might be fudged. The internet says that female rats can have sex 500 times in a six-hour period, but they only come into heat every 4-5 days.
It does feel weird to have personal life getting so much better while the war situation has gotten more and more horrifying. I'm absolutely fascinated by the sanctions on Russia. To quote an article I read, "The most important innovation in this war is the use of the economic equivalent of a nuclear bomb, simultaneously deployed by a superpower and by superempowered people." It goes on to talk about how many non-governmental agents have declared their own sanctions without being ordered to -- and my own company is one of these, having turned off all advertising in Russia earlier this week, but there are lots of other companies, and of course loose global consortiums like Anonymous. Cancel culture at scale... maybe in a way this has always been part of the promise of globalization. I'm so curious how this is going to go.
