Scapulae, vacation cap and doxy
Apr. 4th, 2015 04:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI attended a 90-minute shoulder anatomy class today in which I learned a few things: most particularly, how effing weird-shaped the scapula really is. I can finally both visualize and feel the acromial process and the coracoid (bird-beak) process though, so… progress? I’d really like to see an X-ray or diagram of a person doing a properly aligned handstand, though. All the diagrams are in the usual arms-by-the-sides configuration, which is not what I’m interested in AT ALL. I’m interested in how the glenoid process stacks under(?) the humerus when the scapulae are winged out instead of retracted, and how the ribcage is surprisingly narrower at the top than we think.
Hmm, and work work work. I guess I’m getting a little bit famous at work. I published (on the internal social network) a little 2-page paper from last fall on how I think about the tech lead manager role, and it got shared quite widely, to my surprise. I’m also doing a lot of mentoring people not on my team. I’ve got a direct report out on health leave now and another who’s going to transfer to another team in a quarter, so it feels like my scope is shrinking even as other things take a turn for the better; but a smaller team is easier to take care of, so I can’t say I mind entirely.
I also hit the vacation cap at work, meaning I stopped accruing vacation for a while (with six weeks accrued). This is a classic sign of bad work-life balance, and I found it surprisingly demotivating. Finally I took a day off on Thursday, and used that day off to slam out a vacation-trip plan with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heisenbug. We already knew we wanted to go to Vegas in late spring, and had discussed doing it for his birthay, so it really only took 3 hours to get plane/hotel in place and get tickets for the major shows we want to see. The cap is, of course, in place to encourage exactly this sort of behavior and I have to say it worked. Some people do give up and exist in a state of permanent capped-out vacation-overflow, but guess what? I don’t want to be one of them! No, no, no. I must figure out how to take vacation without the current misery I feel on re-entry, and then I must do it for five weeks per year henceforth.
Health stuff is good. I’m through the 8-week antibiotic course for my skin now (I got a couple of random vesicle re-appearances at the 7-week mark, I ignored them, they went away), and have 4 more weeks on half-dose and then maybe I can stop.
Hmm, and work work work. I guess I’m getting a little bit famous at work. I published (on the internal social network) a little 2-page paper from last fall on how I think about the tech lead manager role, and it got shared quite widely, to my surprise. I’m also doing a lot of mentoring people not on my team. I’ve got a direct report out on health leave now and another who’s going to transfer to another team in a quarter, so it feels like my scope is shrinking even as other things take a turn for the better; but a smaller team is easier to take care of, so I can’t say I mind entirely.
I also hit the vacation cap at work, meaning I stopped accruing vacation for a while (with six weeks accrued). This is a classic sign of bad work-life balance, and I found it surprisingly demotivating. Finally I took a day off on Thursday, and used that day off to slam out a vacation-trip plan with
heisenbug. We already knew we wanted to go to Vegas in late spring, and had discussed doing it for his birthay, so it really only took 3 hours to get plane/hotel in place and get tickets for the major shows we want to see. The cap is, of course, in place to encourage exactly this sort of behavior and I have to say it worked. Some people do give up and exist in a state of permanent capped-out vacation-overflow, but guess what? I don’t want to be one of them! No, no, no. I must figure out how to take vacation without the current misery I feel on re-entry, and then I must do it for five weeks per year henceforth.Health stuff is good. I’m through the 8-week antibiotic course for my skin now (I got a couple of random vesicle re-appearances at the 7-week mark, I ignored them, they went away), and have 4 more weeks on half-dose and then maybe I can stop.
