Frustrated
Jan. 9th, 2007 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebOne of my co-workers is quitting this week to pursue his dream job, a job that is utterly, completely of no interest to me except that I love when people try out their dreams. He is one of my favorite people at work although we never talk except about work issues or before meetings. As things are going, we're not going to keep in touch. I need to do something about that.
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After playing ultimate and walking lots this week and aching continuously (although not crazy bad), I have gained back all the weight I lost when I was sick. In fact, I still weigh the same as I did a year ago.
I haven't been playing ultimate long or getting off the bus early long (though I have been pacing at the bus stop long), so I shouldn't yet conclude that my current efforts are useless.
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My savings deficit is just as bad as it was a year ago.
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I am chilled, but I can't run my new heater because a) it's 68 degrees in here, so I should just get used to it and b) there's some nasty sealant that's still not dry and that filled up the house with nasty smoke when I turned on the furnace yesterday to test it.
I got a thermometer today (a tiny one for $2.50 plus tax at Breed and Company) and started measuring my office. The part of my desk between the keyboard and the monitor is 68 degrees, a perfectly reasonable temperature in winter. The windowsill is 58 degrees. It's a good thing I generally go on long walks during lunch now; it gets me warm again.
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I am running out of ideas for how to write up one of my job duties (processing course schedule change forms) in the job manual I'm writing. The best I can do is have a gigantic section on how to respond to various random notes.
Example du jour: When a course is canceled, we need to check if it's because there was something wrong with it, such as being offered under the wrong course number or being improperly cross-listed with another course (in which case I should delete traces of it in my system) or if it's just because things aren't working out this time, like one of the cross-listed courses didn't make or they could never find an instructor (in which case I should leave things as they are or else some things might not work properly).
Today I went through the cancel forms, and there was nothing of interest. But then an add form had the justification "should not have been offered as a theory course." So I looked to see whether there were any other courses with the same title and sure enough I found some with the same title but offered under different course numbers and only during the same semester, and both were canceled. Therefore I concluded that these other numbers were the theory numbers and that I needed to get rid of all traces of those other classes. (Normally I would confirm this with someone, but they are graduate courses, and I don't have any contact for most grad courses because most grad programs aren't available on my system--but they could become available at any time, so I still need to do the best I can.)
Bleh.
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One thing about reading blogs is that I get to see people just deciding to do something and then they do it. For example, most personal finance blogs are written by people who just decide to get out of debt or whatever, and then they write about their journey. They might have some of the same failures over and over again, but overall they make progress.
It's not really about just deciding and then it magically happens. Deciding is just the first step. Then they make plans and they carry out the plans and overall the plans work. I need some good plans. A good plan is one that a) I will carry out and b) will then work.
I'm sure I am currently carrying out some plans that will work and that it will just take time to see which ones those are. But meanwhile, it's frustrating.
**
After playing ultimate and walking lots this week and aching continuously (although not crazy bad), I have gained back all the weight I lost when I was sick. In fact, I still weigh the same as I did a year ago.
I haven't been playing ultimate long or getting off the bus early long (though I have been pacing at the bus stop long), so I shouldn't yet conclude that my current efforts are useless.
**
My savings deficit is just as bad as it was a year ago.
**
I am chilled, but I can't run my new heater because a) it's 68 degrees in here, so I should just get used to it and b) there's some nasty sealant that's still not dry and that filled up the house with nasty smoke when I turned on the furnace yesterday to test it.
I got a thermometer today (a tiny one for $2.50 plus tax at Breed and Company) and started measuring my office. The part of my desk between the keyboard and the monitor is 68 degrees, a perfectly reasonable temperature in winter. The windowsill is 58 degrees. It's a good thing I generally go on long walks during lunch now; it gets me warm again.
**
I am running out of ideas for how to write up one of my job duties (processing course schedule change forms) in the job manual I'm writing. The best I can do is have a gigantic section on how to respond to various random notes.
Example du jour: When a course is canceled, we need to check if it's because there was something wrong with it, such as being offered under the wrong course number or being improperly cross-listed with another course (in which case I should delete traces of it in my system) or if it's just because things aren't working out this time, like one of the cross-listed courses didn't make or they could never find an instructor (in which case I should leave things as they are or else some things might not work properly).
Today I went through the cancel forms, and there was nothing of interest. But then an add form had the justification "should not have been offered as a theory course." So I looked to see whether there were any other courses with the same title and sure enough I found some with the same title but offered under different course numbers and only during the same semester, and both were canceled. Therefore I concluded that these other numbers were the theory numbers and that I needed to get rid of all traces of those other classes. (Normally I would confirm this with someone, but they are graduate courses, and I don't have any contact for most grad courses because most grad programs aren't available on my system--but they could become available at any time, so I still need to do the best I can.)
Bleh.
**
One thing about reading blogs is that I get to see people just deciding to do something and then they do it. For example, most personal finance blogs are written by people who just decide to get out of debt or whatever, and then they write about their journey. They might have some of the same failures over and over again, but overall they make progress.
It's not really about just deciding and then it magically happens. Deciding is just the first step. Then they make plans and they carry out the plans and overall the plans work. I need some good plans. A good plan is one that a) I will carry out and b) will then work.
I'm sure I am currently carrying out some plans that will work and that it will just take time to see which ones those are. But meanwhile, it's frustrating.