- I was in virtual training all day Monday through Wednesday and we did not get a lunch break (we got ten and fifteen minute breaks throughout the day instead). This messed me up so bad. I really need more than ten or fifteen minutes to decompress from focusing on training all day. I’m so fried.
- AMAZING WORK HACK TO MAKE NOTE TAKING MORE ENJOYABLE – use a custom notebook. (It’s interesting how the word “hack” is misused so much now. The definition is “a clever tip or technique for doing or improving something.” I think people are sometimes forgetting that it’s supposed to be clever when it’s sometimes just obvious. Not every tip is a hack. This one certainly isn’t.)
- One more work thing – rumor on the street is that the position I am acting in will open for me (and anyone else) to actually apply for. I hope I am not to worn out when that happens to make a good effort with my application and (hopefully!) interview!
- I finished Travels with Rachel. I had a lot of laughs with it, and learned about the areas of South America they went to as well! I’d love to read more of Mahood’s books someday.
- Now I’m reading City of Girls, which I heard a recommendation for on The Popcast. The story recounts (from somewhat present day) Vivian Morris’s experiences in the 1940s theater scene. She gets kicked out of college after her freshman year at Vassar, and is sent to Manhattan to live with her aunt, who runs a run-down theater. Vivian immediately jumps in to theater culture and learns a lot about life and what she wants from it. She’s telling the story to someone named Angela, who you don’t initially know Vivian’s relationship to, other than something to do with Angela’s father. It’s mostly light and fun and I’m enjoying it! (And am almost done!)
- I haven’t updated you all on the new garage in a while. The last thing I mentioned is that we were getting a quote for someone else to build our garage. Their quote was expensive and wasn’t for the size OR design we wanted, so the plan right now is to have someone else finish clearing the land, and pour the foundation, then we will build the garage. We submitted drawings for permits this week. Hopefully we can have the site and foundation work done late summer/early fall. Then we’ll see when we can start building.
- Has anyone else who manages multiple pages on Facebook noticed how they make the one you use the most hidden on the drop-down menu so you have to click several times to get to it? Oh, Facebook.
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An interview yay that would be amazing
Right? Cross your fingers… (when I tell you to – the opening hasn’t even been announced!)
I will also keep my fingers crossed that the new job ends up being permanently yours!
Very ambitious to build your own garage – I am impressed!
Thanks!
And another thanks 🙂 Steven can build/figure out anything!
Lolz at the “hack”- I once saw a blogger say using a timer was a hack… to keep track of time. Smh. Words basically have no meaning anymore. It’s really sad.
I hope things work out for you at work. That would be awesome!
Yeah, a lot of times the don’t, in social media and in much of society. I think that is why I like to read so much – where words are much more deliberate!
Thanks! Me too!
That’s great news about the job officially opening up and being able to apply. Good luck 🙂
Thanks!
No lunch break?! Even if the training is virtual…eesh. I certainly couldn’t absorb eight hours of training (three days in a row!) with only 10-15 minute breaks. Yikes!
So exciting about the job situation! I REALLY hope everything works out for you!
Bethany, I KNEW you would get me re: the no lunch break. Yikes exactly – I could not absorb it, or work on other work things during that short of a break either. WTF. Not worth it (it being getting out earlier each day).
Thank you! Me too!
Oof, that training sounds brutal! We all need a lunch break, even if it’s a virtual training! Our brains need a break.
I’m on the waitlist at my library for City of Girls and I hope it comes in for me soon! I’ve heard nothing but rave reviews so I’m excited to read it.
They do! I am so surprised the trainer and most of the class thought that was a good idea!
I hope it does too! I am excited to hear what you think of it! The book I am reading now has some similar themes (The Alice Network).
Ooh, that’s good news about your job role! Is this different than what you were doing last year that didn’t end up working out?
I love your notebook “hack.” My friend has a rant about tech terms being used when they don’t need to be, like “I *pinged* him about something.” or “I don’t have the *bandwidth* to handle that now.”
I try to avoid saying I’m “hacking” on something at work (when I program). I am just…working.
It is different! It’s the team I have always been on, so the same stuff I’ve been doing for the last ten years (minus that detail).
Ooo! I bet that is super common in your industry to overuse the tech terms and that some people do it to be funny and some are just obnoxious? Blah.
Ha. You say hack as a verb and I think of a cat hacking, or hacking with an ax. LOLOLOL.