Catching up: Not Health Related

[womzilla]

Work has been going moderately well. After the panic panic PANIC 30 hours I put in at the office on the weekend of March 1 and 2, work has mostly settled down to its overwhelming 11-hours-a-day-plus-commute. That, in turn, is slowly winding down and I have some hope of getting home around 7 PM most weekdays. I wouldn't bet big bags of cash on that yet, though.

I can read "my stories" (we've started calling my political blogs that) at work in slow moments, so I'm mostly caught up on that, but I am about ten days behind on LJ. I can't read LJ at work--too much of it is links to NSFW material real or imagined--so I only get to read it on weekends. This weekend was the (usually monthly) NYRSF work weekend, but because I missed last Work Weekend (see paragraph 1--it was held March 1-2, and I was otherwise engaged), I was way behind and this one ran longer than usual. (Also had to take one of the rats to the vet at noon on Satuday; and because I was very tired, I ended up taking naps both yesterday and today, something I never do.)

So, very little LJ catchup got done this weekend.

Last weekend I actually had "off" for relaxation, so here's the list of chores I did:

• Put Suitcase away


• Pay Bills


• Grocery shopping (twice)


• Recycling


• Bagel


• Shower


• Rats to Vet


• pill minder


• Calculate & File Taxes


• Sunday comics


• Medicate kids


• Clean rats


• Diamond Previews


• Laundry (work shirts, t-shirts)


• Sell some games


• Transport pooks to and from work


• Download Wait Wait Podcast

I did do some LJ reading in among that.

The weekend before that was the tail end of the ICFA, which was, as it usually is, wonderful. It's actually kind of spooky the degree to which people there know who I am now. It was splendid, but it was a week of only minimal reading.

So, I'm ten days behind. I'm not going to skip ahead--I've caught up from further behind that this. I mention this because I'm probably going to be leaving comments on posts you've long since forgotten, because ten days in internet time is comparable to the age of the Appalachians.

Good to see you all.

Oh, and read this post by nellorat about her client and friend Sherry Britton, who died this week. I didn't know Sherry nearly as well as nellorat did, but I met her several times (during the period that she and nellorat were working together, she lived about a block from my office, so I would act as a courier), and found her utterly charming. And, of course, I got a lot of her wonderful anecdotes, both from the memoir and from gossip with n. I will miss her--the world is poorer without her.

Comments

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

Is the 11 hour day usual, or just for a certain part of the year? Because that's damn hard. And how long is the commute each way? Me, I complain because I have an hour commute each way by crowded metro surrounding just an 8 hour day, because I'm like that.

[womzilla.livejournal.com]

The 11-hour-days were a special treat while we made the big push to get the Big Project finally into production. Now that it's running (fairly) smoothly, nine or ten hours is much more likely. I get a fair amount of slack at work--I can take breaks to read the net, for instance--so it's not terrible.

My commute is under an hour each way, and most of it is in a pretty comfortable train in which I can almost always get a seat. So that part is more like "me time" than it is like a commute--it's when I do almost all of the offline reading that I do.