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May. 31st, 2018 10:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesTraining day 3: networking (which I hate as a formal thing, because I'm an introvert and because OK, networking is supposed to be a 2-way process, but what if the other person hasn't read the book I had to read, and thinks it only goes one way?) and career development. My career is developing again on Monday when my new assistant starts and I get to be a manager-without-CODA. Overall the training was useful and I'm glad I did it. Going to Cambridge removed me from the trenches, as it were, and gave me room to think about what happens in them and what I want to have happen in them.
Performance review this year was the least stressful one I've ever had, because I actually had goals I could actually meet, and met them. Usually I set goals and six other more important things come up and what I actually do has nothing to do with what I said my goals were. This year it was "did that and that and that, and think about what you need for next year so we can get it for you." Maybe I'm not going to be a peon forever with the unwritten goal of "keep head down and do job and shut up."
By dint of shameless bribery (also known as "clean your plate and you get more treats afterward"), I've got Lily back to taking her morning pill in the morning. I'm still considering making her radioactive sometime in July/August, though. It would be nice if the whole thyroid issue became academic.
I hauled out the Persian Dreams pattern last night, partly to see if I remembered where I had put it and partly to see how many colors I need. I only need 14, as it turns out, and I can probably put together most of what I want from floss I've got already. So hooray for that. I just need to figure out how to join up six triangles (some of which are four stitches wide at the bottom) into a hexagon. And I won't be actually doing this for at least another year anyway, so I have time to figure it out.
I need some new shirts and some new sweaters. The world apparently loves cardigans, but I hate them. And anyway sweaters won't be on sale, or even for sale, until July. But I do need some new shirts and I probably shouldn't get them from Eddie Bauer, because that's where most of the current ones are from. I wonder if it's worth buying button-down shirts I know are too big for me and having them tailored? I don't buy button-down shirts (or cardigans) because they gape and I HATE that. This is probably a first-world problem, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to buy a button-down shirt.
Performance review this year was the least stressful one I've ever had, because I actually had goals I could actually meet, and met them. Usually I set goals and six other more important things come up and what I actually do has nothing to do with what I said my goals were. This year it was "did that and that and that, and think about what you need for next year so we can get it for you." Maybe I'm not going to be a peon forever with the unwritten goal of "keep head down and do job and shut up."
By dint of shameless bribery (also known as "clean your plate and you get more treats afterward"), I've got Lily back to taking her morning pill in the morning. I'm still considering making her radioactive sometime in July/August, though. It would be nice if the whole thyroid issue became academic.
I hauled out the Persian Dreams pattern last night, partly to see if I remembered where I had put it and partly to see how many colors I need. I only need 14, as it turns out, and I can probably put together most of what I want from floss I've got already. So hooray for that. I just need to figure out how to join up six triangles (some of which are four stitches wide at the bottom) into a hexagon. And I won't be actually doing this for at least another year anyway, so I have time to figure it out.
I need some new shirts and some new sweaters. The world apparently loves cardigans, but I hate them. And anyway sweaters won't be on sale, or even for sale, until July. But I do need some new shirts and I probably shouldn't get them from Eddie Bauer, because that's where most of the current ones are from. I wonder if it's worth buying button-down shirts I know are too big for me and having them tailored? I don't buy button-down shirts (or cardigans) because they gape and I HATE that. This is probably a first-world problem, but sometimes it would be nice to be able to buy a button-down shirt.
