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Mar. 25th, 2024 10:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkat1. Move went better than expected, considering I was wandering about with a bit of a brain fog.
Work was chaotic - because we played musical cubicles today, and no one was happy about it. The woman moving to my cubicle had tried to convince Jay to let me stay put and take over the one across from me instead - just like I'd argued, and my manager had argued, we'd all lost.
Turns out I got the better deal - I'm away from the kitchen and break room finally, also away from the main aisle where people tend to congregate. And I got an expensive - moveable light, plus a desk that doesn't cut into my knew when I move, and a new file cabinet. So considering I attempted to fight it - I got a good deal all things considered. New environment is probably less noisy than the old one would have become. Also one of the cubicle aisle mates is only there a week before she moves across the floor.
Everyone was moving their stuff from one cubicle to another, while trying to log onto new computers that IT had failed to link to the network. (Turns out I was right to refuse a new computer, and a new phone - I made them move both with me. And the woman taking my cubicle helped me win that argument.) They also moved my standing desk with the computer, and my screens. So have the same set up somewhere else.
But the brain fog/discombobulation resulted in:
* Forgetting to clock in (I got in at 7:38, I remembered and swiped at 10.)
* Accidentally causing a food container to fall on the floor and break the plastic lid because the fridge was packed with toxic pizza from last week, and there was no room to put my lunch. (I apologized profusely and offered to pay for a new one.)
* Almost washing my lunch dishes in the bathroom
2. Work is insanely slow at the moment, mainly because Breaking Bad sucks at delegating. If my management spent less time playing musical cubicles and annoying their employees, and more on managing work flow this would not be a problem. So, I'm biding my time, by revising my novel and plotting the next one. Also electronic filing. And well, the move - which I did in record time.
3. Been working my way through Yellowface
It's a weird book. I actually think "American Fiction" handled similar issues better. Yellowface is a story told from a White Woman's perspective by an Asian Writer, about a White Woman finishing her Asian friend's last novel and passing it off as her own. It's satire - and at times falls into the same trap as pretty much all American Satire does (with few exceptions - See American Fiction), where we get a lot of sermonizing or preaching.
RF Kuang is furious with the American Publishing Industry. (And after the Hugo's, China as well, and the US has got nothing on China. You think the US is racist and nasty, try China. It's a fascist dictatorship.) Although honestly, who can blame her? I'm furious with the American Publishing Industry, so was Harper Lee for that matter. Most writers are. The American Publishing Industry is a toxic nightmare, sorry to say. Lots of dingbats trying to get everyone to write the same or the way they think people should write.
My difficulty with her fury - is it gets old after a while. I really am getting tired of the main character's rants. It's a very whiny book.
And no one in this book is likable so far.
4. Bride by Alix Harwood is slightly better. Although I'm admittedly not in a romance frame of mind. They have an erotic sex scene, where he basically rubs his scent all over her and bites her. I skimmed it. It did nothing for me, and I was kind of bored.
At least it's not whiny or yearning, more snarky. There's agonizing, but to a lesser extent. And it has a plot, so it's central focus is not the romance. The set-up? A Vampire is forced to Marry a Werewolf leader to establish peace among their people - they only have to be together for a year. She agrees to marry him to find her long-lost human sister, whom she was raised with when she was collateral in the human world. Poor Vampire was initially sent off to be collateral in the human world - to keep the peace, now she's sent off to be collateral in the Were world to keep the peace. No wonder she's snarky. When you don't feel like you fit in anywhere, this tends to give rise to being snarky.
Work was chaotic - because we played musical cubicles today, and no one was happy about it. The woman moving to my cubicle had tried to convince Jay to let me stay put and take over the one across from me instead - just like I'd argued, and my manager had argued, we'd all lost.
Turns out I got the better deal - I'm away from the kitchen and break room finally, also away from the main aisle where people tend to congregate. And I got an expensive - moveable light, plus a desk that doesn't cut into my knew when I move, and a new file cabinet. So considering I attempted to fight it - I got a good deal all things considered. New environment is probably less noisy than the old one would have become. Also one of the cubicle aisle mates is only there a week before she moves across the floor.
Everyone was moving their stuff from one cubicle to another, while trying to log onto new computers that IT had failed to link to the network. (Turns out I was right to refuse a new computer, and a new phone - I made them move both with me. And the woman taking my cubicle helped me win that argument.) They also moved my standing desk with the computer, and my screens. So have the same set up somewhere else.
But the brain fog/discombobulation resulted in:
* Forgetting to clock in (I got in at 7:38, I remembered and swiped at 10.)
* Accidentally causing a food container to fall on the floor and break the plastic lid because the fridge was packed with toxic pizza from last week, and there was no room to put my lunch. (I apologized profusely and offered to pay for a new one.)
* Almost washing my lunch dishes in the bathroom
2. Work is insanely slow at the moment, mainly because Breaking Bad sucks at delegating. If my management spent less time playing musical cubicles and annoying their employees, and more on managing work flow this would not be a problem. So, I'm biding my time, by revising my novel and plotting the next one. Also electronic filing. And well, the move - which I did in record time.
3. Been working my way through Yellowface
It's a weird book. I actually think "American Fiction" handled similar issues better. Yellowface is a story told from a White Woman's perspective by an Asian Writer, about a White Woman finishing her Asian friend's last novel and passing it off as her own. It's satire - and at times falls into the same trap as pretty much all American Satire does (with few exceptions - See American Fiction), where we get a lot of sermonizing or preaching.
RF Kuang is furious with the American Publishing Industry. (And after the Hugo's, China as well, and the US has got nothing on China. You think the US is racist and nasty, try China. It's a fascist dictatorship.) Although honestly, who can blame her? I'm furious with the American Publishing Industry, so was Harper Lee for that matter. Most writers are. The American Publishing Industry is a toxic nightmare, sorry to say. Lots of dingbats trying to get everyone to write the same or the way they think people should write.
My difficulty with her fury - is it gets old after a while. I really am getting tired of the main character's rants. It's a very whiny book.
And no one in this book is likable so far.
4. Bride by Alix Harwood is slightly better. Although I'm admittedly not in a romance frame of mind. They have an erotic sex scene, where he basically rubs his scent all over her and bites her. I skimmed it. It did nothing for me, and I was kind of bored.
At least it's not whiny or yearning, more snarky. There's agonizing, but to a lesser extent. And it has a plot, so it's central focus is not the romance. The set-up? A Vampire is forced to Marry a Werewolf leader to establish peace among their people - they only have to be together for a year. She agrees to marry him to find her long-lost human sister, whom she was raised with when she was collateral in the human world. Poor Vampire was initially sent off to be collateral in the human world - to keep the peace, now she's sent off to be collateral in the Were world to keep the peace. No wonder she's snarky. When you don't feel like you fit in anywhere, this tends to give rise to being snarky.