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It's a good thing I had just another quiet evening at home last night and I don't have a lot to report on, as so much of work is taking my bandwidth today that it's a bit exhausting—and preventing me from getting on top of a task I need to have finished by the end of the day tomorrow. Sometimes you have so much on your plate that shit starts spilling onto the fucking floor. Having a job can be such a pain in the ass!
Shobhit and I did go for a walk last night, after I came home, started the first load of laundry, and made us some chai. We walked over to the Tuesday Farmers Market by Cal Anderson Park. I think this was the first time I went to the Tuesday one all year. They had a sandwich board up notifying us that next week is the last Tuesday Market for the year.
Shobhit meandered around, admired this or that produce, as he is wont to do, and never bought any. Then we walked back home.
I did see a plump young lady in a dress I really loved. I wish I had taken a picture. It was in colored sections from top to bottom that made her look like a giant watermelon. The bottom of the dress was the lighter green with seeds.
We came home, had tasty leftovers for dinner, and watched some TV, including the season finale of
Alien: Earth, which I both could not get enough of and was a bit disappointed by. As such, I'll definitely be continuing to watch when they do a second season in presumably about a year.
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I nearly forgot about the Office Relocation Committee meeting happening at 11:30 this morning, until I saw one of the remote people signing in. So many fucking meetings! Today in particular. I had three meetings this morning alone.
At least for once it wasn't scheduled during my lunch break. Next week we're all being treated to lunch by the Leadership Team (LT),
and the committee is going out for Happy Hour that same afternoon. I'm actually looking forward to that.
We basically agreed in the meeting today that this would be our final such meeting, before the lunch party and Happy Hour next Wednesday. Our work here is done, essentially. I'm good with that. Too many fucking meetings! I may have already said that.
People in positions above me, who have mostly meetings all day on most days—I don't know how the fuck they do it. Especially if they have actual work to do outside of meetings. I have plenty to fill my time with even if I didn't have any meetings at all; I have far fewere meetings than most people, but it still feels obtrusive and cumbersome. Am I getting paid enough for this? Probably, but it's easy to get to a point where it's hard to tell when you've also spent years and years living well below your means. I divert 23% of my income to my 401(k). I'd have to lower that if I wanted to get another cat.
Right now I just neet to get back to work. Maybe this afternoon I can actually get some work done. When I'm not at the last meeting I still have to go to, anyway.
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[posted 12:42pm]
