quick RL update
Apr. 28th, 2010 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafI didn't mention it yesterday, since I had planned on posting fic first, but there is quite a bit of commotion going on at my workplace this week. One of my team-mates is retiring - and since they're not planning on hiring anyone new in her place, we're all just gonna be pulling a bigger workload from now on. So, instead of being an "occasional helper" on the stuff she used to do, I will now be one of the major contributors. So there is a lot of "last minute" training going on - for everybody, really, since no one comes close to her level of experience (she's been with the company for THIRTY-EIGHT years; can you even imagine that???... working at the same place for so long?...). And there is overtime. And I haven't even touched my "regular" work in days. And the boss is sort of running around like an energizer bunny, tossing new projects this way and that... lol.
On the fun side, we're doing our best to send her off in style. We had a casual lunch out last week, just for our team; and yesterday was a big party at a fancy Italian restaurant, with the company president, the data operations department head, the HR manager etc. The whole thing took at least three hours, and it was sponsored by the company, so there was basically no limit on what we could order (they pay us next to nothing, but at least we get lavishly fed for free every once in a while... lol). We had appetizers (like shrimp and bruschetta and goat cheese and toasted garlic bread and olives), then we had soups or salads (my spinach salad with nuts and tangerines was so poetic I am going to dream about it), and then we had the main course. I ordered roasted salmon with Sardinian couscous (much bigger than regular couscous, as it turned out, but smaller than orzo), spinach and calamari in a spicy tomato sauce. Mmmmm... (lots of garlic too) And then some people had desserts. I wanted to, but my stomach wasn't willing to cooperate anymore.;) Of course we couldn't have wine, since we were coming back to the office afterwards - but it was a joyful experience anyway.:P Tomorrow is the final "goodbye cake" function for the entire company - with cards and gifts and flowers and speeches and group pictures and all that junk. And then most of us have to come in on Saturday to actually get some WORK done.:P
This is just by way of explanation, in case I get a bit behind on comment replies and stuff. I'm trying to keep track of it all, but the next few weeks might be crazy, and it might so happen that the only thing I feel up to in the evenings/weekends will be skimming flist and reading porn.:P I still feel inspired to write, but I have to watch my sleep schedule (7 hours a night, minimum) or things are going to get ugly.:/ At any rate, I'm always here (LJ-land, that is) in spirit.:D
On the fun side, we're doing our best to send her off in style. We had a casual lunch out last week, just for our team; and yesterday was a big party at a fancy Italian restaurant, with the company president, the data operations department head, the HR manager etc. The whole thing took at least three hours, and it was sponsored by the company, so there was basically no limit on what we could order (they pay us next to nothing, but at least we get lavishly fed for free every once in a while... lol). We had appetizers (like shrimp and bruschetta and goat cheese and toasted garlic bread and olives), then we had soups or salads (my spinach salad with nuts and tangerines was so poetic I am going to dream about it), and then we had the main course. I ordered roasted salmon with Sardinian couscous (much bigger than regular couscous, as it turned out, but smaller than orzo), spinach and calamari in a spicy tomato sauce. Mmmmm... (lots of garlic too) And then some people had desserts. I wanted to, but my stomach wasn't willing to cooperate anymore.;) Of course we couldn't have wine, since we were coming back to the office afterwards - but it was a joyful experience anyway.:P Tomorrow is the final "goodbye cake" function for the entire company - with cards and gifts and flowers and speeches and group pictures and all that junk. And then most of us have to come in on Saturday to actually get some WORK done.:P
This is just by way of explanation, in case I get a bit behind on comment replies and stuff. I'm trying to keep track of it all, but the next few weeks might be crazy, and it might so happen that the only thing I feel up to in the evenings/weekends will be skimming flist and reading porn.:P I still feel inspired to write, but I have to watch my sleep schedule (7 hours a night, minimum) or things are going to get ugly.:/ At any rate, I'm always here (LJ-land, that is) in spirit.:D
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Date: 2010-04-29 11:18 pm (UTC)hugs
Jo
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Date: 2010-05-01 01:20 am (UTC)*crawls under your table and nibbles knees and leftovers of poetic!spinach_salad*
I´m so happy for you!!!! Social life and Italian restaurants, what could possibly be wrong with Chicago!!!
You´re busy and RL always should come first. I hope you´ll settle in the chaos (I know the feeling and I don´t even have a job.) *headdesking and wishes you some porn*
*snuggle*
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Date: 2010-05-04 12:42 am (UTC)Ummm... a lot of things, actually, but it's a big topic and not worth getting into right now.:P
RL always should come first
Really?... Who said that???...;P
But in all seriousness, I don't think it does for me. Or, in other words, the online stuff is no less "real" in my perception. And, to some extent, it overlaps (for example, I have a few LJ friends whom I sometimes meet in person, and they are no less "real" than the friends I met through other means, lol). The only reason the work stuff has to "come first" sometimes is because it pays my bills - including internet, LOL.
*snuggle back* <3
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Date: 2010-05-05 01:09 am (UTC)RL always should come first = Really?... Who said that??? / the online stuff is no less "real" in my perception
No, you´re right. I think it´s me having been told that thing eversince and am trying to fully respect those living by this "cliché" like if it´s the case - and so I sort of hold it as a motto here but I really am of that same opinion as you relate to; that online!life in reality *snerk* is just as important (and sometimes even MORE!important) than the RL or that there´s not really a clear limit between the two.
I´ve never had the experience of meeting up with people from LJ but I can imagine the absolute joy of that - the connection of online!fandom and real!world must be such a relief when they both have the opportunity to clash.
I do have the uttermost respect for people´s lives and their choices and how they relate to and connect RL with LJ, and in the end RL also has much to do with what we choose to share in this online!sphere... but anyway I am considering this place something very much connected to my real life. I´m also aware that some people want to keep a distance.
Perhaps I couldn´t really fathom another doing this "calculation" as well.
As I´ve said before, you´re very responsive and that can be interpreted both as just a funny online-game or as really serious intentions. It´s all about blurred borders for me and I guess this is me having RL/LJ!doubts about what´s really happening between us. Like; I don´t want to be in anyone´s way of more important things or something, I suppose. Which I admit is also somehow totally ridiculous. *headdesk*
Someone please sue me ´cause I don´t own the words to explain.
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Date: 2010-05-06 01:15 am (UTC)Oh, I know. I have the same doubts every time I feel some really valid mental connection developing between me and someone else on LJ. It's happened several times, and those several times have taught me to be cautious in assuming too much, so to speak. In other words, just because I have a great dialog with someone doesn't necessarily mean they can't suddenly disappear for weeks/months/years without a word of explanation (which is something a "real life" friend wouldn't do, I suppose - or if they did, would they still be considered a friend?... *ponders*). On the other hand, I can't expect everyone to just take my word for a guarantee that the only possible circumstances in which I might disappear like that would be if my computer broke down (happened last summer - I couldn't access LJ for two weeks), or if I had serious connection issues (someone cut off my internet cables once - again, no access for about two weeks). Like you said, some people want to keep a distance - but if I say that there's a lot going on in RL at the moment and I might have less time for LJ, that's precisely what it means. No more, no less. It's not some veiled way to communicate my desire to create distance, or something. At least not when it comes to you.:D It's more an expression of regret, as in: Shit, I can't stay up all night replying to your comments, because I have to be relatively conscious at work tomorrow - not fair!!! LOL
As for "more important things" - friendships/relationships were always THE most important aspect of life for me, regardless of the means of maintaining said relationships (whether in person or through writing - and I've always had "pen pals", even long before internet). Other things, like work and money, are simply "necessary evils" in my perception.:P