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So you think I haven't been LJing much? I'll have you know I started trouble over on

miyyu's post about plastic surgery before I even left the house this morning. That's how dedicated I am. :)

Mostly I've been doing a bunch of personal-productivity things like sorting all the papers I brought home, doing lots of reading for future work, working out (squats felt fine again; something really is better about them) and so forth. Along with scary books like Effective STL and some more C++ Primer, I've been reading an even more scary book called Winning Office Politics. It's a disturbing and hilarious read, and ranges from the most innocent of tactics (smile at people) to such things as: For the sake of completion, we are compelled to mention the ageless tactic of marrying an offspring of a powerful person in order to catapult into a key spot in the organization. Yipes--and then there are the not-at-all-sarcastic references to Machiavelli. I think at this point I'm reading it for humor value and for self-defense rather than as part of any offensive plans. After all, for a few months I will have no agenda beyond fitting in and figuring shit out.

Oh--I did manage to have a friendly and non-bridge-burning talk with the CEO, who is back in town, this morning. I started out friendly and smiling, and as usual it magically stayed that way (I love you, Dale!). I scored some points by saying that if I were staying in the industry I would surely choose to stay at DSB (which of course is a huge if... so who knows, maybe it was true), and he scored some points by inviting me to the company BBQ in August. Then I left while we both still had points on the scoreboard. Whew.