What made me happy today?
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Submitted all the stuff for publishing my summer project that became a late autumn project. Just waiting for approval from Beezy boy.
It's somehow comforting that even 12 years ago, this was a meme.
I GET AN ACTUAL BREAK FROM SCHOOL! In online school, breaks are rare, because some teachers will have them and others are like, 'what break? get this done'. But NO! For Thanksgiving, I get like the WHOLE WEEK OFF! I still have things I need to do/read but I am 100% going to take a whole day off.
After five months on a rewrite, I’m finally done!
Kinda don’t know what to do with myself now, since it’s consumed so much of my time and mental focus for a massive chunk of the year.
Kinda don’t know what to do with myself now, since it’s consumed so much of my time and mental focus for a massive chunk of the year.
I've been struggling with the same novel since May 2024. Just the redrafts of the beat sheet and outline took me a few months. Plus, I'm constantly drafting and redrafting every chapter at least 5-6 times, to keep up with critiques from my partner.
You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
On the plus side, what made me happy today? Well, in about 4 weeks, I finally get a break from work. Two whole weeks of sleeping in and not dealing with customers. Yay. *waves a little flag*
You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
On the plus side, what made me happy today? Well, in about 4 weeks, I finally get a break from work. Two whole weeks of sleeping in and not dealing with customers. Yay. *waves a little flag*
Well, this was an almost total rewrite of a short story, which ended up growing into a novelette by the time all was said and done.You did the entire thing in five months? Lucky.
I first wrote it way back in 2017, but I’ve come really far as an author since then, and the prose just wouldn’t stand up beside my more modern work. Since I’m putting together a collection of my stories featuring a recurring character, and the events of this story are absolutely essential to who she becomes and where life leads her, that was a real problem.
Ultimately, I decided to do a total rewrite. The broad series of events is the same until the end, and I reused the occasional line, but it’s a very different story now. Almost three times as long?
I’m glad I did it, because the old ending in particular was rushed due to an anthology deadline, but after tearing my hair out over this story for months on end, I have no desire to read it ever again
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Not so much happy today as relieved. My workload at present is on the brink of unmanageable. Like, 8 hours contact time per day, plus planning, marking and other duties leading to c.14 hours of work per day needing doing. So thank goodness for AI on this one. Need to generate a worksheet on very specific parameters and feeling too burnt out to draft one from scratch? We have two in-house applications that we can pop a description into, and off we go. Hours saved so I can do some of that marking. Need to quickly check work is present and correct before embarking on a colossal line-by-line marking jobbie? Feed in the specification and tell it to check all is present and highlight areas not present for quick feedback rather than needing to go through every single piece of student work multiple times. For all AI's a bloody pain, ethically dubious in many areas, and a matter of concern, it can be very useful and is just about keeping work managable at the moment.
Still too burnt out to write, but that's the 'tism in operation.
Still too burnt out to write, but that's the 'tism in operation.
I miss the days when teachers could write what they liked about a student. I recall reading that Dame Judi Dench's report from her headmaster (at
The Mount School, York) read: "Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world."
Need I say more?
The Mount School, York) read: "Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world."
Need I say more?
I don't know if it makes me happy exactly, but nobody in my company is willing to take my job, and one candidate they interviewed was like, that's three different jobs you're looking for... I'll do one of them for the same amount of money. Fucking owners, man. They don't get it. I've worked for one or two that had done the real work previously and understand what it all meant, but they were the rare exceptions.
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validated?
Sort of. Not exactly. Close enough.
Vindicated?
At my former workplace, they stopped promoting people to management a few years ago. So, no more managers who had actually performed the various levels of jobs of the workers below them and who understood what such work entailed.
Instead, they started doing outside hires (friends, friends of friends) with MBAs who have no concept of anything about the reality of the business. It hasn't gone well. Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.
Instead, they started doing outside hires (friends, friends of friends) with MBAs who have no concept of anything about the reality of the business. It hasn't gone well. Maybe they will pay a consulting firm $500K to try and find out why.
Sharing YouTube videos is degenerate, I get it, but this one is either the exception or I've got a seriously malfunctioning sense of humor.
Or both. One must keep an open mind.
The Grammarian vs The Errorist
Or both. One must keep an open mind.
The Grammarian vs The Errorist
Unfortunately that's par for the course with a lot of companies. A lot of good people get overlooked for external hires.
Elle Cordova is a freaking genius. I will happily watch any video she produces. Her rendition of Peggy Seeger's I'm Gonna Be an Engineer would no doubt be approved by Peggy.
Haha. Yup. My owners do similar shit all the time. We didn't have a marketing director for a few years once because we "don't need one, Homer." Then they had a bunch of marketing problems, but didn't want to pay $85K to hire somebody so they did the next logical thing: outsource for $12K a month, paying $144K for somebody who doesn't work for you, who you can't supervise directly, who sits in some other office and assures you they are "working hard everyday so you get your money's worth."
I laugh, and I laugh, and I laugh some more.
Where I work we’ve gone the opposite direction and promoted a bunch of people who should never have been promoted under the guise of “ growing our own “. Then watched productivity go down the toilet because they now have a bunch of fuckwits in first tier management roles who arent capable of managing a trip to the bag wash
