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Mar. 31st, 2015 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI have now experienced fire drills on two different Harvard campuses in the same week. If the smoke detectors at home start chirping this week besides, it's definitely contagious and I'm carrying it.
Today's career development class was the "looking outward" portion (there are three: last week's was "looking inward" and Thursday's will be "looking forward"). Lo and behold, it's perfectly fine to hate networking as long as you know you hate it, and are willing to try to get better at it. And you don't have to go from hating it and not being good at it to being amazing at it all in one swoop, either. Progress, no matter what size the step is, is the important thing. So I need to make some progress of some sort. In my particular case, I have just enough social anxiety to put networking on the pleasantness scale somewhere around periodontal surgery. So the next step is "actually talk to people when the occasion arises".
In a semi-related vein, I start PT for my shoulder with an evaluation on April 7 at a place three blocks from work. Which beats the first week in May, which was when the hospital-affiliated PT had their first available appointment. I hope the PT helps; last time I remember the exercises being tedious (although I did them religiously at home). But last time my shoulder wasn't this bad, either. Get me to the point where I can sleep on that side again and I'll be happy.
Speaking of being happy, I should start packing for Australia. I'm reasonably certain I'm not going to use either of my bathing suits between now and then, for instance.
Today's career development class was the "looking outward" portion (there are three: last week's was "looking inward" and Thursday's will be "looking forward"). Lo and behold, it's perfectly fine to hate networking as long as you know you hate it, and are willing to try to get better at it. And you don't have to go from hating it and not being good at it to being amazing at it all in one swoop, either. Progress, no matter what size the step is, is the important thing. So I need to make some progress of some sort. In my particular case, I have just enough social anxiety to put networking on the pleasantness scale somewhere around periodontal surgery. So the next step is "actually talk to people when the occasion arises".
In a semi-related vein, I start PT for my shoulder with an evaluation on April 7 at a place three blocks from work. Which beats the first week in May, which was when the hospital-affiliated PT had their first available appointment. I hope the PT helps; last time I remember the exercises being tedious (although I did them religiously at home). But last time my shoulder wasn't this bad, either. Get me to the point where I can sleep on that side again and I'll be happy.
Speaking of being happy, I should start packing for Australia. I'm reasonably certain I'm not going to use either of my bathing suits between now and then, for instance.
