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1. There are so many television shows now...that the critical reviewers no longer do just the top ten... UK Guardian has the Top 50 Shows of the Year.
These lists are so subjective, and this is impounded by the fact that it is physically impossible for everyone to have watched and even liked all of the same television shows. There are literally enough that we could all watch completely different shows, and would be lucky if we landed on the same ones at any given time.
I've not heard of over half of the television shows on that list - and I, as you all know, watch a lot of television. Granted some of it may not be very good television...but that's another discussion.
2. Work is exhausting me. It's non-stop from the moment I get in to when I leave. But, I am accomplishing stuff and doing it well (or as well as can be hoped?). It's a lot of scheduling, coordinating, organizing, pestering and gathering of information - which I tend to be fairly good at for the most part. And writing of legal/financial/business memos and financial justifications.
Tomorrow - I get to monitor/facilitate/coordinate four oral presentations back to back on MS Teams, plus a meeting afterwards.
Found out today - that I have to still go to Crazy Agency's Departmental meeting next Monday. It's now been split into two groups. One group goes at 2pm (that's all my co-harts - Cary, AK, MA, and Babs) and guess who I get to go with? That's right - I have to journey into the city with BYT and BB.
Lovely. I just want to do it on Teams like everything else. I do not want to meet these people in person.
But I have a feeling I have no choice?
I'm trying to find a way to wiggle out of it going in person by scheduling a meeting - it has not worked so far. I'm not sure where this is going or how I ended up being the only one going with management - possibly due to the fact that I have a meeting tentatively scheduled between 12-2pm, and couldn't possibly make the 2pm slot.
Meanwhile, there was some confusion regarding whether I have to take the mandated Web Based EEO and Sexual Harrassment Training (which we get paid for and did last year).
ME: I got paid for it - so I think I need to take it?
Technical Training Manager: Weird, you got paid for training you don't have to take and your union hasn't signed contracts for?
Babs and I look..: Oh, it was for last year.
Me: I'm guessing I don't have to take this?
Technical Training Manager: You do not.
Which is nice - considering it's 90 minutes of my time that I'd like back again.
Also talked to Jay about participating in the Holiday Grab Bag. Apparently I just have to buy two things that I love to give away. Can only cost $10, and it can be anything. Socks, ornaments, tea mug, tea. And Jay told me that if by some odd twist of luck - I ended up with something that had glutens in it and I could not eat or use - she'd trade with me privately.
(I was thinking of re-gifting it.)
The game is you bring the items. Then pick a number. Each person picks according to their number. 1 - gets to pick first, and so on.
Kind of fun?
And you don't know who brought what - I think.
3. Finished The Haunting of a House on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
It's heavily based on Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. And follows along the same lines in that it is more of a psychological horror tale than a ghost story. The House is the problem here.
But Hand falls into the same traps she's fallen into in other books of hers that I've read. In which the final chapter is kind of no-holds barred chaotic crazy. Someone is metaphorically or literally eaten by the antagonistic entity, usually the romantic love interest of the protagonist (to the degree there is one), and the characters own self-absorption and paranoia does them in. As a result, of the last bit - it's hard to care what happens to the characters - and the emotional oompf of the story is kind of lost.
It is a creepy book - and bothered me up to a certain point. The first two-thirds, where the scares are more suggested - is the creepiest. The last portion is a little muddled and over the top - to be scary at all.
At any rate, I've mixed feelings about it. It kind of reminds me of The Devil Takes You Home - and I've the same issues with both? I don't care about the people. However, both were compelling. And this one moved at a much faster pace or clip than the other one did. I got through it fast.
But, I'm hankering for a Kingfisher. So am trying the first book in her Paladin series. Assuming, I don't get bored and jump to something else.
Off to bed. Tired.
These lists are so subjective, and this is impounded by the fact that it is physically impossible for everyone to have watched and even liked all of the same television shows. There are literally enough that we could all watch completely different shows, and would be lucky if we landed on the same ones at any given time.
I've not heard of over half of the television shows on that list - and I, as you all know, watch a lot of television. Granted some of it may not be very good television...but that's another discussion.
2. Work is exhausting me. It's non-stop from the moment I get in to when I leave. But, I am accomplishing stuff and doing it well (or as well as can be hoped?). It's a lot of scheduling, coordinating, organizing, pestering and gathering of information - which I tend to be fairly good at for the most part. And writing of legal/financial/business memos and financial justifications.
Tomorrow - I get to monitor/facilitate/coordinate four oral presentations back to back on MS Teams, plus a meeting afterwards.
Found out today - that I have to still go to Crazy Agency's Departmental meeting next Monday. It's now been split into two groups. One group goes at 2pm (that's all my co-harts - Cary, AK, MA, and Babs) and guess who I get to go with? That's right - I have to journey into the city with BYT and BB.
Lovely. I just want to do it on Teams like everything else. I do not want to meet these people in person.
But I have a feeling I have no choice?
I'm trying to find a way to wiggle out of it going in person by scheduling a meeting - it has not worked so far. I'm not sure where this is going or how I ended up being the only one going with management - possibly due to the fact that I have a meeting tentatively scheduled between 12-2pm, and couldn't possibly make the 2pm slot.
Meanwhile, there was some confusion regarding whether I have to take the mandated Web Based EEO and Sexual Harrassment Training (which we get paid for and did last year).
ME: I got paid for it - so I think I need to take it?
Technical Training Manager: Weird, you got paid for training you don't have to take and your union hasn't signed contracts for?
Babs and I look..: Oh, it was for last year.
Me: I'm guessing I don't have to take this?
Technical Training Manager: You do not.
Which is nice - considering it's 90 minutes of my time that I'd like back again.
Also talked to Jay about participating in the Holiday Grab Bag. Apparently I just have to buy two things that I love to give away. Can only cost $10, and it can be anything. Socks, ornaments, tea mug, tea. And Jay told me that if by some odd twist of luck - I ended up with something that had glutens in it and I could not eat or use - she'd trade with me privately.
(I was thinking of re-gifting it.)
The game is you bring the items. Then pick a number. Each person picks according to their number. 1 - gets to pick first, and so on.
Kind of fun?
And you don't know who brought what - I think.
3. Finished The Haunting of a House on the Hill by Elizabeth Hand
It's heavily based on Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. And follows along the same lines in that it is more of a psychological horror tale than a ghost story. The House is the problem here.
But Hand falls into the same traps she's fallen into in other books of hers that I've read. In which the final chapter is kind of no-holds barred chaotic crazy. Someone is metaphorically or literally eaten by the antagonistic entity, usually the romantic love interest of the protagonist (to the degree there is one), and the characters own self-absorption and paranoia does them in. As a result, of the last bit - it's hard to care what happens to the characters - and the emotional oompf of the story is kind of lost.
It is a creepy book - and bothered me up to a certain point. The first two-thirds, where the scares are more suggested - is the creepiest. The last portion is a little muddled and over the top - to be scary at all.
At any rate, I've mixed feelings about it. It kind of reminds me of The Devil Takes You Home - and I've the same issues with both? I don't care about the people. However, both were compelling. And this one moved at a much faster pace or clip than the other one did. I got through it fast.
But, I'm hankering for a Kingfisher. So am trying the first book in her Paladin series. Assuming, I don't get bored and jump to something else.
Off to bed. Tired.