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But truly, how do we know anything?
2020-Oct-21, Wednesday 15:59
Annual review is coming up at work, and I'm in a bit of a pickle. Years ago, during the days of the old old database, I'd get daily reports back from the system of how many discrepancies I resolved, so I could see how many records I looked through, the subset of those that I fixed, how many records per house, a whole set of statistics so I could tell if I were doing well, if I needed to step it up, if I was on track to finish a project by a particular time, everything was at my fingertips. Then we switched to the old new system and all of that went away and I had to track what I was doing in an Excel spreadsheet so I could report metrics at the end of the year. With the new new system, I don't even have an easy way to do that without manually integrating a counter every time I finish a record, and of course I haven't been doing that because what is this, the stone age? I emailed my boss asking basically "What do I do about this?" and she emailed her boss and I haven't heard back yet, so who knows. Maybe they also don't know how much work I've been doing. System is -1/10, would not be confused once again.
I went to Mishkan's meditation tonight for the first time in a month or two, because one of the long-time facilitators is leaving. She managed to get a post-doc position right after completing her PhD, but it's in Germany, so she's having to upend her entire life and move away from everything she's ever known to do research to write a book. But before this happened she had six months of no leads and was contemplating a non-academic career--everything I've heard from people with PhDs comes down to "Do not get a PhD"--so I'm glad that she managed to find a good way to keep doing what she loves!
( Farmer's Market Dinner )
And that's the final farmer's market dinner of the year! Some of the marketers will be coming back piecemeal through November and I'll almost certainly still be buying things, but the market as a whole is done until next summer.
Tomorrow I have a three-hour department meeting that I have to be on camera for the entire time, because this time it's through Zoom, even though I'll have nothing to say and will almost certainly be muted most of the time. Is it going to be a disaster? I sure hope so, because maybe that'll stop them from trying this again!
I went to Mishkan's meditation tonight for the first time in a month or two, because one of the long-time facilitators is leaving. She managed to get a post-doc position right after completing her PhD, but it's in Germany, so she's having to upend her entire life and move away from everything she's ever known to do research to write a book. But before this happened she had six months of no leads and was contemplating a non-academic career--everything I've heard from people with PhDs comes down to "Do not get a PhD"--so I'm glad that she managed to find a good way to keep doing what she loves!
( Farmer's Market Dinner )
And that's the final farmer's market dinner of the year! Some of the marketers will be coming back piecemeal through November and I'll almost certainly still be buying things, but the market as a whole is done until next summer.
Tomorrow I have a three-hour department meeting that I have to be on camera for the entire time, because this time it's through Zoom, even though I'll have nothing to say and will almost certainly be muted most of the time. Is it going to be a disaster? I sure hope so, because maybe that'll stop them from trying this again!
