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She wears the Cone of Shame
Nala is home again! She has an Elizabethan collar (Cone of Shame), and is bumbling around the bedroom bumping it on stuff. Well, right now she's purring on sleeping heisenbug; she's alternating between angsty bumbling and very aggressive snuggling. To my unspeakable relief, her surgery went well on Monday, and pre-surgical scans did not show any masses or ( Read more... ) -
New coach, creating systems, not partying
It's been a strange day. Bad news in the morning, as posted, but then in the afternoon I saw a new coach for an assessment of my press handstand work -- someone I know from the Toledo world but hadn't worked with professionally before. He's completely confident that I'll get my press, and also gave me a drill that's new to me and feels like a ( Read more... ) -
18 and life, you got it
It's surgery time for my Nala, as she again has an enlarged anal gland and this time flushing didn't help. It feels to the vet like there's a mass. An irregular mass -- that word is always, always bad in a health context. So we're being referred to a specialist, who will see her for a surgical consultation on Monday at 9AM. That's about as soon as ( Read more... ) -
Indirect reports (!)
Re-entry to work has, thus far, been pretty brutal. Who are all these people (oh, they're my team) and why are they looking at me like I'm going to do something for them? (Fuck, I'm their managerIn a spasm of self-defense, the one thing I did on my first day back was to move three of my people under another one of my people. In one stroke this made ( Read more... ) -
Reasons for fitness training; ideas around benchmarks for '17
You guys, sometimes I don't know what I'm doing with fitness and athletic stuff anymore. I just put together a little montage of things I did in 2016 and, well, it's fun but kinda random. With no flexibility work in it. :(
Here's what my friend Chelsey has to say, and I love it:
Have you thought about what needs you’re trying to satisfy by ( Read more... ) -
Sixteen-year-old self
What does your 16-year-old self think of your life? This came up in a comment on nevers' journal and turned into a thing I've asked a few people since then. Here's mine.
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My sixteen-year-old self, who we will call F16 from now on, is only somewhat disappointed.
It's important to get back in her head, and remember how ( Read more... ) -
Off to Switzerland!
Today's been a good day. All I really had to do was pack up for my week-long vacation to Zurich (now en route to the airport ( Read more... ) -
2016 firsts
Oh, hey, y'all... merry whatever-you-celebrate. I am slightly drunk.
I was working, and then apfelsingail came to visit and we had a fabulous time buying socks and graphic novels together... swapping books, talking life. Work stopped happening, I did some acro and now I am lazily doing Christmas with heisenbugI'm not ready for year-in-review, but here are some things ( Read more... ) -
Jittering toward the holidays
I have ideas for posts, and I haven't been writing them, because instead I've been working quite a bit. It's been a far busier December than usual. At least it's been satisfying, for the most part: getting things done, including launching something to production (okay, only at 10%) at the last possible minute by bending some rules. Drama and ( Read more... ) -
Another day in the year, more shitty news.
This year goes right on being its awful self. Yesterday brought ALL the following news: John Glenn is dead, giraffes are considered 'vulnerable' to extinction, life expectancy in the US dropped in 2015 for the first time in decades, and (smaller, closer to home) Zillianaires aren't getting a holiday gift from work this year. Sigh. Morale problems ( Read more... )