May. 12th, 2024

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Monday might've been the interesting day this week. I got three moles removed (the old-fashioned slice-them-off way), which isn't something I want to get obsessive about but it is nice to have a few of the bumpier ones gone. Then I had dinner with Norwood for the first time in ages, and met one of his new partners who I really liked and got along with! The partner prefers "it" pronouns, which is very unusual but something I also enjoy a lot (mostly in the context of playfully being a squirrel, in relation to my other squirrel-person). Norwood had broken up with a fiance -- drama! -- and the ex had written a screed about that in which I'm mentioned and so is the It, so we got that read to us out loud and got to bond over that. Hahahaha.

Wednesday I maybe made some progress toward stalder negatives, and then got some extra circus-time in the evening by dropping in on Acro 101, which Helios is taking this session. That was adorable. They have a good group there.

I spent much of my workweek trying to decide whether to come clean to my current boss about my plan to leave next year, finally deciding "not yet". I know he's noodling about a reorg that might give me more people/teams, which means that my Plan A of getting my new team set up nicely in its current position is busted anyway (sigh), and he probably can't set me up in a position that guarantees I'll be backfilled (sigh), so transparency at that level probably won't help me.

Friday I had a phone screen with a non-profit, one that I'd like to volunteer with one day but which also has a SWE manager job opening right now. I'm wildly overqualified as a manager and blew past the phone screen, and now I'm curious about the rest -- they really want a TLM (some coding) and they want it to be a full-time position, neither of which sound great to me, but in the meantime I could learn something from the process. I laughed when they said "no, turnover is pretty low -- most of your engineers have been here over a year, some more than two years!" On my average workday I interact with probably more than 10 people who've been at Zillian for over 10 years, so it's just an entirely different world, and I hope they have an amazing culture of documentation to make up for all the turnover but I bet they don't.

Weekend: a hard turn toward the videogame world, with simultaneous releases of Little Kitty, Big City and Animal Well (both links are to metacritic). The baby squirrel is obsessed with the first one, so I am getting credit for recommending it. And the second one is obviously deep, deep, deep! One guy did all the development, over seven years. I spent time with my partners -- playing those games, watching the bug play and sing at Porchfest, then going and buying some fast fashion with the squirrel (not a great thing to do ethically, but now I have a cute tank top to wear next weekend in DC). Did my workouts, went to the circus school's open studio for some fairly successful playing around.

Now I'm tired, and likely procrastinating on the big thing I should be doing this evening, which is write a particular paper for work. The good news is that if I am procrastinating, I'm doing it by doing other useful stuff, all of which I am hoping to get done in the next week before leaving for DC anyway, so it might all come out the same. As long as I clear the email pile tonight. All right -- off I go for dishes and then that.

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