User talk:TheEileen/Jan 2009
January 2009
26 Jan 2008
Updated list and wiki. Five projects moved forward and one posted. I am over my cold but I still feel tired. That is my anemia - it whaps me with the "fatigue stick" as I call it every once in a while. Otherwise, doing well. I have managed to list out everything I want to do on DP and except for keeping up with forums and trying to do at least 10 pages a day, I've not managed any of them. Oh well, I have a list! I got some mentoring done and then my inbox is nearly full again. Time to empty tomorrow so I can do more mentoring.
The weather is now sunny, clear, and cold, which seems to be giving me sinus pressure on top of the above mention fatigue. I listened to a podcast today about project plans and management and I think I really do need to have a chat with Jeff and Dee Dee. I think I flip-flop between giving them too much information and not enough. I want to be able to say "An audit needs to be done of TOPIC. The result is that we know exactly how many of them we have, what if anything needs to be documented on them, and the documentation filed". And then leave the "how to get to result" up to them. That to me is the proper way to both give and let people do projects. Give them the outcome and if required give them the deadline. But I think when I do that, they might be a) not realizing I am trying to give them an outcome. I think maybe they think I'm not clear or precise enough. And usually when I feel that way, I overcompensate by becoming very micro-managing and telling them all the steps. So I want to check how they want projects given. I am not the manager but I am the work lead - my job is to hand out the various tasks, projects, and jobs. I need to do it in a way that works for them and me. If they are okay with this, then good. If they need more structure, I want to work out with them how much. I do things in a vacuum because I tend to do "what works for me" and while that's lovely, if adjusting slightly will actually work better for them and get the work done because they understand better what's needed, that is what the actual result needs to be. Work done - job completed.
My tendinitis has slowly subsided although it suddenly starts to hurt occasionally. I am going to try to work out at the gym on Thursday and get input from gym people on how to do some of my exercises without straining my tendons. I think I can see how to do all but two of them and it's the tricep muscle I really don't know how to do without involving the tendon. Hmmm, we'll see.
21 Jan 2008
Updated list. Not enough movement to update wiki. Plus, I have a cold and feel tired. :weary smile: I was home yesterday due to my cold but asleep through all the inauguration, drat it. My friend Tivo'd all of it, so that is cool.
I also finally got a letter from Jeremy, Gerald's friend, that Gerald had passed away in May. But he didn't keep an address book and his house was such a mess, Jeremy didn't have my address. He was so glad I had sent yet another Christmas letter so he could finally let me know. He's very nice and I'm glad Gerald had someone who cared about him with him at the end. This also re-inforces for me the good idea that my address book is not only up-to-date but actually labeled in a way for people not me to know who each person is (friend, old work acquaintance, uncle, etc.). After dealing with my mom's stuff and hearing some stories, you've got to set things up so that if you go suddenly, the people left behind aren't lost.
Okay, so sleepy and still tired, going to bed. Night!
16 Jan 2008
Updated list and wiki. One project moved / one project posted. Anzieger finally done! I guess I now need to look at "les postes francaise". As well as my F2 stuff. I'm doing okay with L'eclair.
It's been another unknown yet exhausting week. I've done my exercises (that I could - more later). I'm actually okay sometimes, but by 7pm here I'm just dragging and seem to want to do nothing but sleep! And I am sleeping fair deeply but waking up easily. It feels more like my body really really wants to shift to a different cycle. As usual though, upon expressing my tiredness one day at work this week, several people piped up that they were all feeling unusually tired also. I always wonder if it is environmental or weather related when that happens.
Anyway, the flaring up wrist which I tried to deal with by putting on my carpal tunnel brace turned out to be tendonitis which the brace only made MUCH worse. Ow! I am having to be very careful, I did my regular exercises and yoga (think cat and down dog and plank) and that all made it worse also. As did making cookies by hand without a mixer which I regretted about two beats into the mixing but refused to waste the no doubt $4 worth of ingredients by then. That hurt like the dickens! I've had it wrapped and I'm on extra ibuprofen and that seems to help. It's hard not to use my wrist which is on my right hand (and I'm right-handed) but I'm trying. It hurt to even try to tie my shoes or pull a zipper. That at least is past.
I'm supposed to drive south on Monday, which is Martin Luther King Day in the US (holiday) and my friend will drive north and we'll meet in the middle and get to see each other for the first time in about two years. That'll be fun, I hope. Weather clear but cold.
09 Jan 2008
Updated list and wiki. Nothing moved but two projects posted. Nice. Anzieger is nearly done. I'm managing a few pages here and there, to help move it along. I have been mostly focusing on F2 and doing dictionnaire, I let it go too far, as it is I've got pages that I can't do in F2, but now it's nearly 200 days, I don't want people popping in and doing the pages I CAN do. And I have to refocus on L'eclair because I've got all of the 3d volume and I need to get that done, not that I truly believe anyone will "grab" it, but you never know.
For unknown reasons, it has been an EXhausting week. So very tired. Spending so much time with my co-worker I think drains me more than I realize. Sharing an office is going to be ... interesting if it comes to that. Anyway, it's not bad, just the adjustment. Weather has been rainy and cold and I was actually scared driving home one night: visibility was so bad and I kept hydro-planing and I do NOT like that. Unlike snowy ice, bosses don't let you stay home because of rain. Darn 'em. I've been reading some more and catching up a little on tv (the joys of tivo, I've got shows nearly a year old. One day ...!) Otherwise, all okay. My wrist and foot are flaring up but if I do my stretches and take my anti-inflammatory, I do better. That being said, I'm off to take pills and do stretches.
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