Slightly more productive

[mousme]

I decided to do some of my dishes today. They've been hanging around in my sink long enough, thank you very much. That's one less thing that I'll have to do tomorrow, and given the amount of housework I have to do, that's no small deal.

So tomorrow there will be laundry and de-cluttering. When I get back from Halifax, if I still have any money left I think I'll head out to IKEA to get some bookshelves and a TV stand, and take a look at the desks they have to see if any suit my needs.

Today I am attempting to be more zen about the whole work thing. It's not working very well, but I'm trying. I can't be responsible for other people's behaviour, even when it affects me in a negative way. So I will NOT use my supervisor as a piñata, no matter how unfair his decision was. The coworker who rolled her eyes at me actually apologized afterward for staying so long on the phone, and given that she is usually super super good at her job and generally helps me when I ask, I'm chalking this up to an aberration, especially since her daughter is having a hard time.

Work is eating my brain. Even though there hasn't been that much overtime of late... oh, wait, scratch that, there was plenty of overtime last week. Anyway, it just feels as though I'm running on empty all the time. I keep trying to keep track of my life, trying to write things down, and even that doesn't help. I keep forgetting to do things, or else I get the weird impression that I've somehow done things even though I haven't. Keeping in touch with people is especially bad. I read an email and think of a reply, and somehow my brain translates that into my having typed a reply and hit "send," even though that's not the case.

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As I suspected, I made myself unpopular with my declaration that I don't like Twitter. Oh well. Can't win all the popularity contests, I guess. (The above paragraph should explain why I will never ever be on Twitter. Can you imagine what that would do to my already-wrecked attention span? :P)

Anyway, for the record: "I hate Twitter" != "I hate my friends who use Twitter."

If you like Twitter, use it regularly, and want to upload it to LJ at the end of the day, then that's fine by me. I would rather have a post, but if that's all you can manage these days for whatever reason (life, family, connection problems, whatever), then I'll take it. I like keeping in touch with my friends. And, honestly, you very obviously don't need my blessing to carry on as you see fit with your technological communication devices. If I don't like something then I can suck it up and deal. ;)

Comments

[joane.livejournal.com]

I didn't get a chance to reply to your previous post, but I'm entirely with you on the twitter thing. I ended up defriending someone on my flist who used to write really quite interesting things... until he got twitter. And suddenly the only thing going into his LJ is lists of crap like

@sue: LOL!
@bob: But what *would* the Tremere do?
@jon: I'll be there at 2
@mary: maybe it's got to do with the cheese

Which tells me absolutely nothing at all about anything going on in his life. So much for that.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Precisely. There are a few people who post complete sentences, and thus their once-a-day uploads feel a bit more like a bullet-point LJ post, but a lot of them are one side of a conversation which I can't possibly understand.

[sultrysong.livejournal.com]

OMIGOD, I hate that. Hate it hate it.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Maybe she was rolling her eyes at her daughter's misbehaviours, and didn't realize you'd think she was eye-rolling at you?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, she was eyerolling at being interrupted, there's no question there. It just wasn't directed at me so much as at the fact that she was trying to listen to her daughter and didn't want to deal with whatever problems there were at work.

Also, you and I need to get together at some point so I can lend you Macgyver.

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

Yes! More MacGyver! :-D

Maybe we should try to resurrect weekend brunches. After all, we *do* have an awful lot to organize for next January's festivites...

[mousme.livejournal.com]

You'll have to be the main coordinator, in that case. Much as I'd love to, my schedule is so erratic that there are times when I won't be able to come for weeks.

:)

[bodhifox.livejournal.com]

What's twitter?

Just kidding!

Don't I post enough real posts as it is?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Dude, if the hat fits, then wear it. If it don't fit, put it back on the hook for someone who CAN wear it. ;)

You post plenty, and I enjoy every single one. Except the voice posts when I'm at work, because then I feel thwarted 'cause I can't listen right away. But that's just my problem with instant gratification.

[raven-albion.livejournal.com]

Chalk me up as another Twitter-disliker. Though it obviously works for some folks, I find it in general to be yet another step along the electronic communication downslide started by Facebook/Myspace.

(I have a Facebook page, yes, but it's rather barren. Volume does not compensate for quality in written communication, and most of the time I find Twitter to be even worse than Facebook in this regard.)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

The responses to your last post didn't strike me as disagreeing with you at all. If anything, most people agreed. You are therefore not unpopular, only oracular. Unless you were PM'd by angry Twitter fans?

[mousme.livejournal.com]

No, there was f-list drama. :)

[owldaughter.livejournal.com]

Oh noes, teh dramah! You have my sympathy. :)

Also, yes, absolutely, a knitting/writing jam is an awesome idea. We shall plot.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

It got resolved pretty well, actually. No bloodshed or hard feelings. :)

I look forward to the plotting. If you and toughlovemuse want to discuss it tonight, you can email me at work. :)

[jteethy.livejournal.com]

I don't have any sort of mad hate-on for people who use Twitter. I just don't follow anyone's tweets. If they get fed to my f-list, I just skip over them. Whatever.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I don't hate the people who use Twitter. I just don't like Twitter itself.

Sadly, apparently most people can't make that distinction. In their minds, if I dislike Twitter and they use it, it means ohnoesIhatesthemforevar!!1!