Burnout fuel: appeals, seating. But, hey, Toki Pona!

[flexagon]

In follow-up from last time, the in-law visit went okay. There's a curious sort of cabin fever that can set in when one feels stuck at home but without one's whole house actually available to one (say, if a husband is sleeping in one bedroom and the in-laws have taken over the other), and it set in and I had to escape to do workouts. Nothing went

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[randysmith]

I'll put a pebble on the side of the young'uns; at least, I haven't gotten over it yet. I've been pining for my cubicle since I got this job, and the move really looks like it's to an even worse layout than what I used to have. (Though I've gotten lucky and I think I'll be able to make my spot work for me.)

[flexagon]

Pebble noted, and I'm glad you've gotten lucky (though a part of me is ruefully wondering how many of my peeps think they got lucky... when you spend hours on something but a lot of it's confidential, there's every chance of not getting credit for the work).

I honestly don't know how much of it is a sort of immaturity / "focus on silly things that aren't work" phenomenon, and how much of it is hardwired, innate sensitivity that ultimately falls more under the umbrella of health/medical stuff. And I'm not even making judgments on what's "healthy"... it could well be incredibly nonadaptive to not care who walks behind you, making me and other senior peeps in my team the broken ones who just happen to do okay in this age. I do know that thirteen people's varying issues are a lot to deal with all at once though. :)

[randysmith]

Yeah to all that :-J. I've come to the conclusion recently (before this move blew up in our faces) that part of the differential between how effective I was at my last job and how effective I am at this one is the open seating layout. But that doesn't address the question you raise, and I don't really know how to address that question

[melebeth]

Tiny adorable language!

[flexagon]

toki lili!

That means "small language" but I don't know how to say "adorable". Oh, I looked it up:

toki suwi lili! :)

[melebeth]

:)

[triesticity]

Toki Pona, exciting! I should remind B that he was saying we should learn it together - we never got around to it but that sounds like fun.

[flexagon]

Yay! I seem to actually be doing it, in no small part because I have two people who will practice with me (norwoodbridge and my direct report at work who turned me on to it). If you learn it, I'd practice with you also!