ten good things
Dec. 3rd, 2013 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberett1. One poem draft complete and sent off to a couple of people to beta before it goes up here later in the week...
2. ... and a second is beginning to try to take form: meta-commentary on writing love poetry.
3. I wrote some actual code for actual work and it works and I did it almost entirely solo. (It's also ugly and hacky and took me half a day instead of half an hour, but I learned stuff and it still took me less time than wrangling the data manually would have done, and will mean every time I have to do that bit of data wrangling in the future it will Just Work, and I suspect will save my group collectively a lot of time once I've slapped a GUI on top of it and added in a bit of flexibility instead of hardcoding everything.) Seriously, I am so proud of myself - I think this is actually the first time I've gone and written something by myself and had it mostly go, and is definitely the first time I've done so for work (as opposed to for DW volunteering, but I pretty much always have people holding my hand for DW bugfixes), and - yes, yes, this is a thing I can do.
4. ... and I scraped up the courage to send off the actual code to TOG, who is interested for several reasons. (This is some hardcore brain rewiring on my part - I'm really, really twitchy about showing people things, in ways that I maybe want to ramble about with respect to posting poetry drafts here, actually. Hmm.)
5. Relatedly, I got to spend some Proper Time with That One Lady this weekend, which was very nice.
6. ... and I got to feed people a bit, which ditto.
7. I just finished reading a gloriously terrible werewolf romance, and have moved on to another round of Borges, which is not necessarily sensible. (The other two things I currently have on the go are Teaching As A Design Science and some feminist sociolinguistics from the 80s, both of which are very interesting and pretty heavy going given the day job.)
8. All you lovely folk leaving me prompts for the December-a-day thing, which I am finding stimulating and engaging and enjoyable for all that I'm only writing you a couple of paragraphs a day, on the day.
9. Exciting new I'm A Great Big Queer jewelry arrived from The Internet (specifically, a rainbow ear cuff from PictsieCrafts)...
10. ... and the Internet has also sent me a tiny daylight-temperature light bulb for the office, and if I'm lucky a thing I can plug it into will arrive before Thursday.
(Also, house-hunting again is a thing that is happening. Fingers crossed. But basically -- yes, good. I am tired but doing tentatively okay.)
2. ... and a second is beginning to try to take form: meta-commentary on writing love poetry.
3. I wrote some actual code for actual work and it works and I did it almost entirely solo. (It's also ugly and hacky and took me half a day instead of half an hour, but I learned stuff and it still took me less time than wrangling the data manually would have done, and will mean every time I have to do that bit of data wrangling in the future it will Just Work, and I suspect will save my group collectively a lot of time once I've slapped a GUI on top of it and added in a bit of flexibility instead of hardcoding everything.) Seriously, I am so proud of myself - I think this is actually the first time I've gone and written something by myself and had it mostly go, and is definitely the first time I've done so for work (as opposed to for DW volunteering, but I pretty much always have people holding my hand for DW bugfixes), and - yes, yes, this is a thing I can do.
4. ... and I scraped up the courage to send off the actual code to TOG, who is interested for several reasons. (This is some hardcore brain rewiring on my part - I'm really, really twitchy about showing people things, in ways that I maybe want to ramble about with respect to posting poetry drafts here, actually. Hmm.)
5. Relatedly, I got to spend some Proper Time with That One Lady this weekend, which was very nice.
6. ... and I got to feed people a bit, which ditto.
7. I just finished reading a gloriously terrible werewolf romance, and have moved on to another round of Borges, which is not necessarily sensible. (The other two things I currently have on the go are Teaching As A Design Science and some feminist sociolinguistics from the 80s, both of which are very interesting and pretty heavy going given the day job.)
8. All you lovely folk leaving me prompts for the December-a-day thing, which I am finding stimulating and engaging and enjoyable for all that I'm only writing you a couple of paragraphs a day, on the day.
9. Exciting new I'm A Great Big Queer jewelry arrived from The Internet (specifically, a rainbow ear cuff from PictsieCrafts)...
10. ... and the Internet has also sent me a tiny daylight-temperature light bulb for the office, and if I'm lucky a thing I can plug it into will arrive before Thursday.
(Also, house-hunting again is a thing that is happening. Fingers crossed. But basically -- yes, good. I am tired but doing tentatively okay.)
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Date: 2013-12-03 12:41 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-03 12:19 pm (UTC)like I feel a bit ridiculous being this delighted about it when I've been teaching my freshers the language all term
but
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REALLY PLEASED WITH MYSELF.
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Date: 2013-12-03 04:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-03 12:26 pm (UTC)I've tidied it up some today, and am starting to think very seriously about how to turn it into a general-purpose no-specialist-knowledge-required tool for the rest of my group. :-) Which -- HURRAH.
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Date: 2013-12-03 07:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-03 08:38 am (UTC)I just finished reading a gloriously terrible werewolf romance Ha! What a great descriptor! Thank you for sharing what you are reading at the moment. I always like to hear about what other people are digging into.
Fingers crossed the house-hunting goes well.
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Date: 2013-12-03 12:28 pm (UTC)I always feel like I don't read rapidly enough to make participating in Wednesday Reading Meme anything other than a bit disheartening, but at the beginning of January every year I post a list of the books I read in the preceding year, with demographics of authors + my brief comments, and I love talking about what I've been reading in more detail with that kind of wrapping structure :D (Otherwise I get a bit shy about it - IDEK why...)
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Date: 2013-12-03 09:04 pm (UTC)I can understand what you mean about the Wednesday Reading Meme. I tend to feel rather the same, though every now and then I participate. I like the sound of your January round up and look forward to taking a peek at this year's.
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Date: 2013-12-03 12:44 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-12-03 06:13 pm (UTC)Their objective is to bring programming best practice to academic coders (who tend to be self-taught and are not exactly known for using version control, or comments, or... anything really)
I would love to go on one of their courses, and would encourage my supervisors to do so as well, except that I didn't know about the one that started today in Edinburgh :-/ (I think it must have gone up on their website with really short notice)
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Date: 2013-12-03 07:36 pm (UTC)ETA having said which, I think I don't care enough about R to want to go to the bootcamp in Cambridge in January.
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Date: 2013-12-03 07:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-12-03 07:40 pm (UTC)Indented Servant
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