Long-belated update
Mar. 25th, 2006 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bookzombieYeah, I know, I seem to be starting way too many entries with 'sorry I haven't posted for a while' comments. So take it as read, okay? :-)
So what's my excuse this time? Well, that great triumvirate of illness, work and rehearsals really.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pennski and I have both been down with a particular lurgi that has been going around (involvess interestingly active mucus membranes - don't ask). I managed to lose a day and a half's work, but really should have taken another couple of days, but something urgent came up at the office, yada yada yada.
Over a week later and I'm still not 100%, but definitely on the mend. Pennski's turned into full-blown sinusitis with need for antibiotics so she's been out of it for a week or so. She is also, thankfully, much better too.
Of course, to go with this work has been, even by my standards, really frantic. I'm afraid I've been irritable with some people again! I'm still enjoying it, mainly, but could do with a few days of doing one person's job, instead of trying to do what feels like three people's!
I also had my annual appraisal on Wednesday, which was...okay I suppose. Much appreciation of the work I've been doing, but still just getting a high 'Good', not the 'Very Good' I hoped for (our range is Poor, Generally Satisfactory, Good, Very Good and Exceptional). They have been, over the last couple of years, making it more difficult to get the higher grades. Of course, as I pointed out, if you make it too difficult people are going to stop aspiring to it! I'm not greatly bothered, but given that I have taken on lots of new responsibilities in the last year, and I have been one of the few people at my grade who have, a little bit of me thinks 'what else can you possibly expect from me?'.
Rehearsals continue to go well. We are only a week away from the band call and tech. rehearsal and 10 days away from opening but I'm confident we will have a good show.
So what little spare brain I have has been taken up watching crap TV, reading or playing computer games (just finished Psychonauts on the PC, which is great fun).
We did have a visit fromolivia_circe, over here on Spring Break, last week which was really nice. We haven't sat up late talking Buffy and Angel with someone for ages. We were touched and amused by her excited reaction to seeing us actually using a (whisper who dares) tea cosy!. I gather you really don't have those over the pond?
So what's my excuse this time? Well, that great triumvirate of illness, work and rehearsals really.
pennski and I have both been down with a particular lurgi that has been going around (involvess interestingly active mucus membranes - don't ask). I managed to lose a day and a half's work, but really should have taken another couple of days, but something urgent came up at the office, yada yada yada.Over a week later and I'm still not 100%, but definitely on the mend. Pennski's turned into full-blown sinusitis with need for antibiotics so she's been out of it for a week or so. She is also, thankfully, much better too.
Of course, to go with this work has been, even by my standards, really frantic. I'm afraid I've been irritable with some people again! I'm still enjoying it, mainly, but could do with a few days of doing one person's job, instead of trying to do what feels like three people's!
I also had my annual appraisal on Wednesday, which was...okay I suppose. Much appreciation of the work I've been doing, but still just getting a high 'Good', not the 'Very Good' I hoped for (our range is Poor, Generally Satisfactory, Good, Very Good and Exceptional). They have been, over the last couple of years, making it more difficult to get the higher grades. Of course, as I pointed out, if you make it too difficult people are going to stop aspiring to it! I'm not greatly bothered, but given that I have taken on lots of new responsibilities in the last year, and I have been one of the few people at my grade who have, a little bit of me thinks 'what else can you possibly expect from me?'.
Rehearsals continue to go well. We are only a week away from the band call and tech. rehearsal and 10 days away from opening but I'm confident we will have a good show.
So what little spare brain I have has been taken up watching crap TV, reading or playing computer games (just finished Psychonauts on the PC, which is great fun).
We did have a visit from
olivia_circe, over here on Spring Break, last week which was really nice. We haven't sat up late talking Buffy and Angel with someone for ages. We were touched and amused by her excited reaction to seeing us actually using a (whisper who dares) tea cosy!. I gather you really don't have those over the pond?
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Date: 2006-03-25 03:39 pm (UTC)And yeah, we do have tea cosies over here, but really only people who are super into tea use them (I suspect
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Date: 2006-03-25 04:45 pm (UTC)I'm working on knitting a tea cozy for my super large tea pot, but i haven't finished it yet.
And our friend Dr. John also has tea cozies. So they're not completely unknown. It seems that once we start talking about people who think of tea in leaf form instead of just bags, then we're talking about people who use tea cozies. Watch out, johanna, or you'll succumb, too!
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Date: 2006-03-25 09:59 pm (UTC)are you guys going to wiscon?
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Date: 2006-03-26 07:53 am (UTC)