I'm Going To Do That Thing

[ayun]

That thing where you make a point of considering the nice things that happened to help yourself avoid dwelling on the not-nice things that happened. Today was kind of a fucking slog and a lot of it made me pretty angry and I barely had time to pee all day let alone feed myself and, wait, I'm doing that other thing. I should stop that.

• I did a thing

Comments

[rojagato]

You've described every day of this week for me, except for actually talking to brigid, and petting cats, both of which I think I might have benefited from

[ayun]

Oh my god with the Agile. Part of why last week made me cranky was the part where I spent two days of it in training to become a Certified Scrum Master (BAAAAARF) and kept getting called away from the training to do work stuff.

My next-level goal in this still-quite-new job of mine (not even two months!) is to choose things to blow off (sorry-deprioritize) in favor of the stuff that is actually helpful. The weekly status report, a ritual instituted by my better-organized but less-effective (says me) counterpart, will for sure be one of them.

I saw the same cat again a few days ago, hanging out under a car to stay dry during a spell of rain. We're pals now, I think.