About to walk up the big hill to campus while drinking my free Waitrose coffee. Teaching a class on research methods and I can’t even remember what my slides say. We’ll make it work
having a Biosphere heavy morning which isn’t motivating me and instead making me want to cuddle up on the sofa with the dog (and baby but lets be honest, the baby would ruin it). But here i a right here on my laptop for another day.
Would probably take the severed* option to be honest, so long as i could be severed at my home desk, like plugged in or something. Be weird looking on here in the evening though!
Anyway, its a shitty time so buy someone a little kinder hippo and make their day x
*severed as in severence the tv show. Its pretty mint
Morning. Feel like this: , got a ridic packed day with no room for my normal level of skiving. Haven’t even showered. Got to go to London tomorrow and it’s going to involve a 4am alarm I think and I just cannot be fucked.
Was supposed to have therapy this morning but she’s cancelled last minute which is a bummer because (a) presumably it means she’s having some kind of emergency and (b) I could’ve really used it today. Have a call with HR later on to to talk about my notice period from work (trying to get out of doing the full 3 months that’s in my contract) and then another call with my manager to discuss me coming back to the office after this period of being signed off ends. Bleurgh.
Going climbing after all that though, and then boardgames with a pal tonight. Listening to the Severance podcast too which is great, full of really insightful behind-the-scenes production info.
Today is my last day of freedom before
I go back to work and the melancholy is v v real. Disappointing result at pool last night which doesn’t matter at all in any real way but I could have done with the boost of a win
Already been to the dentist, having a coffee and a muffin in Gail’s then gonna practice pool for a few hours before heading home to be a bit sad
Feeling alright today despite raging tiredness. Lots of work on, will be a late one especially with the kiddo raging around like a boundary-testing 3-y/o, so life is fun.
Sat in the studio for the day though which is nice.
My dad once told me about a factory he worked in that did free toast in the canteen, which led one colleague to bring all the components for a full English wrapped in foil in his pockets. Including beans.
Met many deadlines yesterday. I still need to tidy up a few reports and numbers but nothing too onerous. It feels nice to get a few of those off my back.
Really need to speak with my mum today. She complained she does not see enough of her grandson.
Moving around is nice and that but it would be a lot easier if all my family and us lived in one place.
I’ve been stressing over a piece of work for a couple of weeks. I had a bit of a breakthrough on it last Wednesday but then did that thing where you don’t finish the job. In the meantime the internal client was bothering me constantly to the extent I stopped looking at their teams messages.
This morning to my complete surprise I actually knuckled down, finished the job and sent out the results by email. Immediately one of the customers emails me asking for me to “add” something to the output that I explicitly said I would do in the email, and then another one suggests changing all the fundamental requirements and asks how much more work that would be to which I tartly replied “it would require starting again from scratch”
Still intend to rest on my laurels for the rest of the day but boy am I irked. I want these people to fuck off, they are genuinely getting me down
I’m working on a project like that atm. The client is being so fucking difficult that it’s making me feel really awful at my job, and I’m getting so burned by it that I am being a bit awful at my job. Mostly because I’m fed up of asking ‘How high?’ when they ask me to jump.
I used to drink so much Pepsi Max, completely quit and am down to one coffee first thing to make getting up slightly less of a horrible shock. I miss drinking caffeine so much and I miss drinking sweet fizzy juice. Drinking water at work just isn’t the same.