A very quick update
May. 27th, 2021 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeIt's already 9:30 and I want tonight to be a reasonable bedtime night. I managed to get to sleep shortly before 11:00 yesterday, which is better than what I've been managing overall, so I want to keep the trend moving downward. Downward? Backward? Something-ward? Anyway, earlier.
I got to work early because I had a last(ish)-minute information session to give to a handful of work candidates who couldn't make it to the official sessions for various reasons (technical issues, disappearing emails, last-minute scheduling conflicts), and the staffing unit hadn't as of last night given me anyone's names or emails, so I wasn't able to send them the MS Teams link until the very last minute. I wasn't thrilled, but I did get the link out and everyone showed up, so that was a relief. The session went well, even though it was just me giving the presentation without the other supervisor who was my co-presenter for the official sessions.
I didn't get as much work done today as I'd have liked, but it still felt like a productive day. I got home a tiny bit earlier than I usually do (about 20 minutes or so) after picking up Peggy from doggie daycare, made myself a nice salad for dinner along with the remnants of my chips and salsa snack from yesterday, and then spent an hour doing more "body doubling" with KK. She worked on folding laundry while I continued my assault against the living room clutter. I've invited her to dinner tomorrow, so I shall have to look up something fun to cook for the both of us that she will actually enjoy. KK is, much to my dismay, something of a picky eater, so I shall have to get creative when I cook! It will be an interesting challenge and I am hopeful that we will both discover delicious new meals in the process.
I Skyped with my parents (we have a standing date on Mondays and Thursdays these days), and they were unusually chatty for once! Usually they struggle to find things to tell me about, but this time my mother told me about an upcoming eye surgery in July, and my father wanted to talk about the movies and TV shows they've been watching, and both of them wanted to start planning for them to visit later in July (they are getting their second vaccine in the third week of June, so they'd be "fully immunized" by mid-July) once my mother has recovered from her surgery. She was unclear on the exact nature of the surgery: she told me it was to remove her cataracts and also for her glaucoma, but then she said they're also going to be putting in a "new lens." To the best of my knowledge she's NOT having a vitrectomy, so I guess she's getting an intraocular lens, but she didn't have any of the paperwork and was kind of vague about the whole thing. My mother is DEEPLY squeamish about anything medical, and generally does the psychological equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and singing "LALALA I CAN'T HEEEAAAR YOUUUU!" about everything until she literally has no choice but to pay attention, so it's not surprising she didn't have much information to give me. He surgery is July 5th, so I still have time to pry more out of her in the interim.
After the Skype call I took Peggy out into the back yard and we spent time training on recall. I have been remiss about the practicing, so she wasn't rock-solid, but she got the idea pretty quickly and we did about half an hour's worth of good recall on the 20 foot long line I have for her. I am pretty pleased with how she did. We'll do more practicing tomorrow.
On that note, I need to go look up something nice to make for tomorrow, and then go to bed. I have to do a bit more cleanup before I won't be too embarrassed to have her in the house, so I have a busy day ahead of me. XD
I got to work early because I had a last(ish)-minute information session to give to a handful of work candidates who couldn't make it to the official sessions for various reasons (technical issues, disappearing emails, last-minute scheduling conflicts), and the staffing unit hadn't as of last night given me anyone's names or emails, so I wasn't able to send them the MS Teams link until the very last minute. I wasn't thrilled, but I did get the link out and everyone showed up, so that was a relief. The session went well, even though it was just me giving the presentation without the other supervisor who was my co-presenter for the official sessions.
I didn't get as much work done today as I'd have liked, but it still felt like a productive day. I got home a tiny bit earlier than I usually do (about 20 minutes or so) after picking up Peggy from doggie daycare, made myself a nice salad for dinner along with the remnants of my chips and salsa snack from yesterday, and then spent an hour doing more "body doubling" with KK. She worked on folding laundry while I continued my assault against the living room clutter. I've invited her to dinner tomorrow, so I shall have to look up something fun to cook for the both of us that she will actually enjoy. KK is, much to my dismay, something of a picky eater, so I shall have to get creative when I cook! It will be an interesting challenge and I am hopeful that we will both discover delicious new meals in the process.
I Skyped with my parents (we have a standing date on Mondays and Thursdays these days), and they were unusually chatty for once! Usually they struggle to find things to tell me about, but this time my mother told me about an upcoming eye surgery in July, and my father wanted to talk about the movies and TV shows they've been watching, and both of them wanted to start planning for them to visit later in July (they are getting their second vaccine in the third week of June, so they'd be "fully immunized" by mid-July) once my mother has recovered from her surgery. She was unclear on the exact nature of the surgery: she told me it was to remove her cataracts and also for her glaucoma, but then she said they're also going to be putting in a "new lens." To the best of my knowledge she's NOT having a vitrectomy, so I guess she's getting an intraocular lens, but she didn't have any of the paperwork and was kind of vague about the whole thing. My mother is DEEPLY squeamish about anything medical, and generally does the psychological equivalent of sticking her fingers in her ears and singing "LALALA I CAN'T HEEEAAAR YOUUUU!" about everything until she literally has no choice but to pay attention, so it's not surprising she didn't have much information to give me. He surgery is July 5th, so I still have time to pry more out of her in the interim.
After the Skype call I took Peggy out into the back yard and we spent time training on recall. I have been remiss about the practicing, so she wasn't rock-solid, but she got the idea pretty quickly and we did about half an hour's worth of good recall on the 20 foot long line I have for her. I am pretty pleased with how she did. We'll do more practicing tomorrow.
On that note, I need to go look up something nice to make for tomorrow, and then go to bed. I have to do a bit more cleanup before I won't be too embarrassed to have her in the house, so I have a busy day ahead of me. XD
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