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September 15, 2004
frost status report
i would say that overall, i did remain frosty yestserday, although there was one situation in which i had to repeat my "stay frosty" mantra to myself a few times.
i have been doing some major flaking out though; so far it's just been amusing, but i do have this niggling fear that i'll do something truly dangerous or harmful in my flakitivity.
- flake incident #1, monday: left a book on the roof of my car. remembered when i got into my office, then forgot. receptionist called and told me about it, and then i promptly forgot again. finally prick guy, who normally won't make eye contact when we pass in the hall, brought it to me, actually smiled, laughed in a nice way and even looked me in the eye.
- flake incident #2, tuesday: walked into a meeting that i wasn't supposed to be in, late. realized my mistake after i'd sat down, but then my manager told me to stay because they were about to discuss something relevant to me. later my manager asked me if i was ok... said when he saw the look on my face when i realized i'd walked into the wrong meeting, he thought i was going to "check out on us right then and there". egads! this was the situation in which i had to remind myself to stay frosty; meeting flakiness is particularly distressing to me.
- flake incident #3, wednesday: got 5 minute reminder for the meeting i am supposed to go to, clicked snooze. got distracted, walked into joe's office and discussed google issues with him for 10 minutes. walked back into my office, realized my mistake, ran down to meeting. hope manager thinks this is amusing. got paged out of the meeting, but happily manager liked that i ran out of the meeting to correct a server problem. he's cool like that.
there have also been more minor flake things, like missing a beltloop and not noticing for half the day, and some other stuff that, not surprisingly, i can't remember.
yesterday joe convinced me to go home an hour early; he said, "you'll just be misreable all week then take a sick day next week," after i complained of being exhausted. turns out he was right; last night i slept a lot and did only the most minimal, urgent starlite things; made myself a most excellent dinner of pork chops, broccoli, and fresca, watched some tv and petted my cat.
i feel pretty damn good today.
Posted by lisa at September 15, 2004 12:57 PM | TrackBack
Comments
Hmmm, all these things you mention are the types of things I have done for years ...
Posted by: Lisa B on September 15, 2004 02:19 PM
Cool managers, surprising colleagues, and technology -- they sure can contribute to daily fun, especially when the day ends an hour early.
Posted by: Phil on September 15, 2004 09:32 PM
ok, so a) your comment won't post right away because i have to approve it first and b) you might get a server error but your comment probably posted anyway and c) previewing doesn't work so i've removed the preview button.