How I feel when people are proud of how many hours they work http://t.co/nnWFpWTpb0
— Andrew Ducker (@andrewducker) August 3, 2015
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Tag: Work
Too long. I’ve been busy though. Well, busyish. What have I been up to?
At work I took a trip up to Newcastle to see Northumbria SU before the Easter break and since we’ve been back we’ve moved back to the SU*. As a farewell treat I undertook a two-night baking marathon and churned out (slightly disappointing) lemon cupcakes, not bad vegan truffles, and bloody awesome breadsticks (half baba ganoush, half roasted pepper and tomato).
At home I’ve reclaimed my office and my garden. I threw out a *lot* of crap, I think I’m almost through the boxes from my house-move 5/6 years ago, and the garden is tip-top, just need to decide what to plant. Salad leaves and potato sets for definite and I’m thinking beetroot for something interesting?
I’ve backed a hell of a lot on Kickstarter. Viking worker placement, witch trials, surviving (or joining) the mutant apocalypse and, most importantly, Rahdo Runs Through probably the best online board game resource you’ll ever find (still 12 hours to back!).
I ran the Leam 10k, 53:18 this year (I guessed I’d do 53-54 minutes this year based on how much training I’d done) so some work to be done for my next run. I’ve got 10ks lined up in May and June but I think May is my best shot.
That’s probably it for now! Oh, and I’m getting really excited about Age of Ultron :)
* Mixed feelings about this, which seems silly given how reticent I was to move out. I think it took so long to settle at the new place that once we were settled the idea of fresh upheaval wasn’t too attractive. Also in our new office I got to sit next to Lizzie who’s pretty badass and now I don’t anymore. Anyway. On the bright side my hairdressers is just downstairs so I can stop cutting my own hair…
These terms are used and misused quite a lot in my life atm: planning business direction at work and spend too much time watching board game videos on Youtube at home. The misuse is mostly when they’re used interchangeably and there are plenty of pithy aphorisms to explain the difference like:
Strategy is undertaken before the battle. Tactics are implemented during battle.
Or:
Strategy is the what. Tactics is the how.
But by far my favourite way to think about it takes me back to the early noughties when the only time I/we would use the word tactical was in reference to ‘going tactical’:
If the strategic aim on a night out was to make it to Sugar for the £1 pound vodbulls and I was too pissed too early I’d go for a tactical chunder to help sober me up.
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Intermission
Not the sort of thing I usually post about but, man, I feel like shit at the minute.
This is probably the lowest I’ve felt in about 5 years. I’ve put so much in to work, relationships, and keeping myself fit and healthy over the last few years and it seems like none of it is paying off. The last few months have been excruciating. So little patience left right now.
Movies, kittens and Japanophilia will resume shortly!
The last few weeks have felt pretty stressful. Things that *had* to be done, people I *needed* to see, finding the time to cook a decent meal, finding the time to go for a run, sorting out this site, doodling superheroes, playing with Milly and Molly, reading my book.
At some point the things I love doing turned into chores.
Perhaps chores is a bad word; it’s not that I didn’t want to do these things, it was that I wanted to do all of these things and felt I had to allocate and schedule and plan an designate and that detracts from the essence of fun! Why the hell am I getting so worried about time? I’m spending so much time worrying about not doing everything that I’m still not doing everything but the things I am doing I’m not even enjoying!
Luckily during one of my designated leisure periods I had put on some George Carlin for a bit of background entertainment and this particular bit made me stop, smile, and realise that I should worry a hell of a lot less about time:
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PotW – 7/8/09
- White Box
- Hiroshima
- Catz
- Henry Rollins feat. the Techno Viking
- “There is also no clothing policy at Netflix, but no one has come to work naked lately”
- The Brick Testament
- I think you could easily swap the word crappy for the word scary
- Ong Bak 2
- By the time you read this you’ll probably have missed the first one, but may still catch the second* (thx to Nikki)
*pun intended