Surprising but good
Sep. 22nd, 2003 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI just had this really cordial, friendly, happy annual review with the CEO. He seems really happy with my work, and wanted to see the wedding pix I've been showing around today, and he's giving me 4% instead of this year's average 2.5% raise--pretty much the first time he's given me more than the usual. Also, there's some new structuring coming into place soon and I'll be getting a new title (Software Engineer 2 or some such). Woot! Woot!
(Now I feel slightly jerky for all my wanting to quit, even if most of my reasons for potentially wanting to move on are still valid. I start to waver on the heart-of-evil thing though. He was so nice today... ye gods, people are so malleable. And I feel dumb for being malleable. But then he probably isn't as bad as I was thinking he was a year and a half ago. The truth is complex, every damn time.)
As alluded to, I did get the wedding proofs back from the photographer yesterday--300-ish pictures, which I sorted through sleepily last night and snarfed out the best 50 or so into a little album. Some of them are sooooo adorable! I just love us. It also really helped to shake this awful mood I had somehow gotten in, where I was truly feeling like the wedding hadn't really happened... like it was a really good dream I had had, and then woken up and it hadn't happened and I felt bad for even daring to think of it. But, aha, now I have proof that other people saw it too. :)
Tonight is transporting the microwave home, and cooking, and doing more thank-you notes (for the return address we are using these caricature address labels we got from vistaprint.com, with us and the three kitties, which are truly excellent). It would be great if I could find some time to draw tonight. It may not happen, but I know the best thing to do with weird floaty feelings of unreality is to bring Independent Creative Soyfetus out to play. Well, maybe cooking counts.
(Now I feel slightly jerky for all my wanting to quit, even if most of my reasons for potentially wanting to move on are still valid. I start to waver on the heart-of-evil thing though. He was so nice today... ye gods, people are so malleable. And I feel dumb for being malleable. But then he probably isn't as bad as I was thinking he was a year and a half ago. The truth is complex, every damn time.)
As alluded to, I did get the wedding proofs back from the photographer yesterday--300-ish pictures, which I sorted through sleepily last night and snarfed out the best 50 or so into a little album. Some of them are sooooo adorable! I just love us. It also really helped to shake this awful mood I had somehow gotten in, where I was truly feeling like the wedding hadn't really happened... like it was a really good dream I had had, and then woken up and it hadn't happened and I felt bad for even daring to think of it. But, aha, now I have proof that other people saw it too. :)
Tonight is transporting the microwave home, and cooking, and doing more thank-you notes (for the return address we are using these caricature address labels we got from vistaprint.com, with us and the three kitties, which are truly excellent). It would be great if I could find some time to draw tonight. It may not happen, but I know the best thing to do with weird floaty feelings of unreality is to bring Independent Creative Soyfetus out to play. Well, maybe cooking counts.
Thanks :)
Date: 2003-09-23 01:48 pm (UTC)It would have seemed funny in the late 90s to celebrate a 4% raise... but hmmm, that was then. This is now. And much more than that it's nice to have Mr. CEO not hating me.