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A few good things; an update
Mar. 30th, 2005 09:14 pmI called my father up at work today with one of the definitional questions that Youth Venture is always running into-- I was wondering how to define "initiative"-- as in business initiative, not creating action. And Dad, good work systems theorist that he is, had several definitions at the ready and was happy to stop whatever it was he was doing and talk it through with me. Stopping whatever he is doing and talking any thing I asked through with me is something that he's done my entire life and I'm so grateful for it. It's one of those ways that I know that I'm loved.
At the bottom of today's pile of mail when I got in the door was a letter from Joseph, responding to one of the "I just moved" letters I sent out. It's really good to hear from him. The letter made my day.
Work is tiring. Good, but tiring. It's worth it because it is good work. Yesterday, I lost my patience with the budget thing I've been working on because I've been working on it for so long, and have been so frusterated by formatting issues. So there was a task of converting an excel document into a word document, which is actually very easy, but I wasn't thinking about it that way. I wanted to assign the task to someone else because I've worked with formatting these documents in word so much and they have all of these relics of previous formatting built in even though I've copied it into new documents several times and I figured it would take way more time than it initiatially looked like, like everything else on this project. So one of the managers stepped in and did it in three minutes and now she behaves as if I'm an idiot. Which is irksome. On the plus side, as of today, the budget project is *done.*
I'm not looking forward to the weekend. For the first time, I don't have anything to do (except go to the DMV-yuck!) and I don't need the time to rest or run errands.
At the bottom of today's pile of mail when I got in the door was a letter from Joseph, responding to one of the "I just moved" letters I sent out. It's really good to hear from him. The letter made my day.
Work is tiring. Good, but tiring. It's worth it because it is good work. Yesterday, I lost my patience with the budget thing I've been working on because I've been working on it for so long, and have been so frusterated by formatting issues. So there was a task of converting an excel document into a word document, which is actually very easy, but I wasn't thinking about it that way. I wanted to assign the task to someone else because I've worked with formatting these documents in word so much and they have all of these relics of previous formatting built in even though I've copied it into new documents several times and I figured it would take way more time than it initiatially looked like, like everything else on this project. So one of the managers stepped in and did it in three minutes and now she behaves as if I'm an idiot. Which is irksome. On the plus side, as of today, the budget project is *done.*
I'm not looking forward to the weekend. For the first time, I don't have anything to do (except go to the DMV-yuck!) and I don't need the time to rest or run errands.
