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May 16th, 2002 10:29 amWent to see Jeff Ryman at OUSFG last night. He was really good - he read us some of his new novella and then took questions and encouraged us to kibbutz about good SF films and whether Buffy was any good :) The story was really good but he wouldn't read us the end. He sounded like one of those book at bedtime readers - maybe I'll hear it again when it comes out. And he told us some really funny stories about plays of his work and things like that. We like.
I have decided not to go for getting Cassie's kitten - I've been watching her the last couple of nights and she's really settled in now. She even seems to have twigged over the last couple of nights that there's no point meowing outside my door until my radio comes on in the morning which is nice. She's got the whole downstairs marked out as her territory and I don't want her to have to find her own space again - she's had a lot of disruption recently and I think it'll be good for her to just have a period of calm for a while. Plus, I think she definitely likes getting all the attention :)
Work sucks again - every time I go to a meeting about the project I'm supposed to be on they seem to change it and I don't really understand enough about the system I'm trying to work on or the bond instruments to actually do any good any more. I feel vaguely guilty but really, I just haven't been given the tools to do what the project has turned into. Still, it's frustrating. In a way though, this is one of the reasons I want to leave - I can do the web server stuff and that fine but that's peripheral to what the team really does and I can't contribute to that because we're so short staffed that no-one's got time to teach me how. I find myself thinking that I want to give in my notice now and just take the risk. Trouble is, it'd be a foolish risk and really, it's not necessary.
I have decided not to go for getting Cassie's kitten - I've been watching her the last couple of nights and she's really settled in now. She even seems to have twigged over the last couple of nights that there's no point meowing outside my door until my radio comes on in the morning which is nice. She's got the whole downstairs marked out as her territory and I don't want her to have to find her own space again - she's had a lot of disruption recently and I think it'll be good for her to just have a period of calm for a while. Plus, I think she definitely likes getting all the attention :)
Work sucks again - every time I go to a meeting about the project I'm supposed to be on they seem to change it and I don't really understand enough about the system I'm trying to work on or the bond instruments to actually do any good any more. I feel vaguely guilty but really, I just haven't been given the tools to do what the project has turned into. Still, it's frustrating. In a way though, this is one of the reasons I want to leave - I can do the web server stuff and that fine but that's peripheral to what the team really does and I can't contribute to that because we're so short staffed that no-one's got time to teach me how. I find myself thinking that I want to give in my notice now and just take the risk. Trouble is, it'd be a foolish risk and really, it's not necessary.
