That's four! In a row!
Dec. 13th, 2007 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgToday was the fourth in a row that featured both consciousness and uprightness in relatively normal quantities, as scored by the dual benchmarks of (a) getting to the office, and (b) functioning in a useful fashion for at least 4 billable hours. Caffeine and Beroccas were my daytime friends, but at night lately I've been consuming many many veges and hardly any naughty things.
Quite a few personal-happiness events occured today.
* I wore a purple silk scarf which IMHO was the perfect shade to accessorise the top I was wearing, and which fluttered fetchingly in the breeze. I'd say there was a good chance I was sporting the only purple silk on the floor, and possibly the building.
* I made it to the pool again for another careful albeit unstylish 500m. Again concentrated on regular breathing rather than working the muscles. Theoretically I could do this in the comfort of my own home with the judicious application of a bucket of water, but the feet enjoy the anti-gravity experience too much.
* At work I finished a "Material Movements Case Study" paper to my satisfaction. Some tortured phrases finally unkinked themselves enough to make the prose flow easily. It's gone off to various external-but-friendly parties for review. It will be particularly interesting to see what the excitable USAlien salesman thinks of its straightforward hypelessness.
* Felt perky enough to start to seriously contemplate things like house maintenance and improvements.
* I have been scheduled to present to the ACS again next year, this time in July, and to both Perth and Bunbury branches. They were keen on "Filling the Gaps in Enterprise Systems" but positively leapt at the throwaway semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion "What Can Your Technical Writer Do?" Seems the latter is New and Exciting territory *shrugs*. Fine by me - I get to speak for 45 minutes about how clever I am (plus 15 minutes official question time and 90 minutes unofficial beer-fuelled mingling *real* question time). I'll even make it informative, entertaining and educational, thus sneakily demonstrating my fabulousness even more. Totally made of win. I plan to make it an excuse to have a holiday down south with Husband. It's been much too long between open fires.
* Speaking engagement in Bunbury is personally *frightfully* significant, for I have thus far actively avoided travelling for business purposes (Would I like to travel to isolated mine sites in Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia? Port Hedland? Hell no.) It took some effort given my location and profession. That's right, never done it. Not once. Largely fuelled by the fear that I'll be exhausted and/or sickened by the travel, novelty or primitive conditions and will lose my brains very publicly. So, this is a baby step, but a very important one for me.
* Visited BB for another round of scalp/neck massage to which he responded with loud purring and a new appreciation for the benefits of cat ownership vis-a-vis one's willingness to stroke for long periods. He's feeling much chirpier on the steroids, and really enjoying the break from several months of constant vomiting, although we know it's a temporary fix. Steroids also serve the useful function of making his skin naturally very oily and easy to massage. Tomorrow he gets the mask fitted for the radiotherapy and other prep such as getting tattoo spots to guide the beams. Cross the beams! We contemplated fashion options from serial-killer hockey mask to Alien facehugger to Hannibal Lecter restraints. Spent a surprisingly long time swapping airline disaster stories with the folks.
Now, sleepy.
Quite a few personal-happiness events occured today.
* I wore a purple silk scarf which IMHO was the perfect shade to accessorise the top I was wearing, and which fluttered fetchingly in the breeze. I'd say there was a good chance I was sporting the only purple silk on the floor, and possibly the building.
* I made it to the pool again for another careful albeit unstylish 500m. Again concentrated on regular breathing rather than working the muscles. Theoretically I could do this in the comfort of my own home with the judicious application of a bucket of water, but the feet enjoy the anti-gravity experience too much.
* At work I finished a "Material Movements Case Study" paper to my satisfaction. Some tortured phrases finally unkinked themselves enough to make the prose flow easily. It's gone off to various external-but-friendly parties for review. It will be particularly interesting to see what the excitable USAlien salesman thinks of its straightforward hypelessness.
* Felt perky enough to start to seriously contemplate things like house maintenance and improvements.
* I have been scheduled to present to the ACS again next year, this time in July, and to both Perth and Bunbury branches. They were keen on "Filling the Gaps in Enterprise Systems" but positively leapt at the throwaway semi-tongue-in-cheek suggestion "What Can Your Technical Writer Do?" Seems the latter is New and Exciting territory *shrugs*. Fine by me - I get to speak for 45 minutes about how clever I am (plus 15 minutes official question time and 90 minutes unofficial beer-fuelled mingling *real* question time). I'll even make it informative, entertaining and educational, thus sneakily demonstrating my fabulousness even more. Totally made of win. I plan to make it an excuse to have a holiday down south with Husband. It's been much too long between open fires.
* Speaking engagement in Bunbury is personally *frightfully* significant, for I have thus far actively avoided travelling for business purposes (Would I like to travel to isolated mine sites in Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia? Port Hedland? Hell no.) It took some effort given my location and profession. That's right, never done it. Not once. Largely fuelled by the fear that I'll be exhausted and/or sickened by the travel, novelty or primitive conditions and will lose my brains very publicly. So, this is a baby step, but a very important one for me.
* Visited BB for another round of scalp/neck massage to which he responded with loud purring and a new appreciation for the benefits of cat ownership vis-a-vis one's willingness to stroke for long periods. He's feeling much chirpier on the steroids, and really enjoying the break from several months of constant vomiting, although we know it's a temporary fix. Steroids also serve the useful function of making his skin naturally very oily and easy to massage. Tomorrow he gets the mask fitted for the radiotherapy and other prep such as getting tattoo spots to guide the beams. Cross the beams! We contemplated fashion options from serial-killer hockey mask to Alien facehugger to Hannibal Lecter restraints. Spent a surprisingly long time swapping airline disaster stories with the folks.
Now, sleepy.
