Home working report

[selenay]

I believe this working from home lark has worked out very well today. The work got done, nothing went dreadfully wrong and I even felt good enough at the end of the day to do some French work. The only thing that I need to refine is getting out for a walk at lunch - didn't quite happen today. But the next time I get to work from home I'll make sure that happens, too.

Hopefully Da Boss will agree that this is a good plan, get the network thingy authorised so that I have better access to files and the datawarehouse from home and we'll be able to do this regularly. I'd favour one or two days a week, but even just knowing that it's there for bad days would help.

I am now going to watch bad medical dramas before heading for bed *g*

Comments

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's good. Sounds like the working from home is suiting you very well. Fingers crossed for you.

Tx

[selenay]

It was suiting me very well, except HR at work has now banned it :-( If I'm too sick to get to the office then I'm too sick to work. Bleh.

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that :-(. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you.

Hope we get that chance to meet up at the weekend. Sounds like you could do with a break.

Love the icon btw - looks just like you! Where did you get it?

Txx

[selenay]

Sounds like you could do with a break.

I could indeed. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the tuturial doesn't completely wreck me :-)

Love the icon btw - looks just like you! Where did you get it?

It's a pretty cool icon and I'm glad that it actually looks like me :-) I made it at this site - http://illustmaker.abi-station.com/index_en.shtml

I like your icon, too. I noticed it when I went to your journal last night to find out what happened on Monday.

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I had a go with that, but I sort of came out looking like chairman Mao :-/. Don't suppose you want to make one for me, do you? It looks very much like I haven't got a clue what I look like!

[selenay]

I can have a go with it and see what I come up with :-) It took me a long time and a lot of mucking around to come up with something that I thought was reasonably representative. This week, time is something I definitely have plenty of...

[historyterry.livejournal.com]

That would be really nice, thanks, if you get the chance.

Um... can I pester you about Serpent II? I was reading Serpent yet again this week :-).

[selenay]

You can. Doesn't mean that I'll be getting anywhere faster, but you may indeed pester :-) I am going through some of the manuscript today, though.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I guess you'll not also be working at home today, in which case you might be interested in Listen Againing to All in the Mind from Radio 4 today, which is on chronic pain. Might not be entirely relevant but might be interesting...

[selenay]

It was actually very interesting - thanks for pointing it out. Hopefully this isn't going to be a chronic thing, but there was some useful information about reactions to long-term pain and at least I know there will be help out there if this is chronic.

In a way it was a relief to hear a specialist confirm that the pain isn't an outlet for depression but the other way around. I've actually been really worried about collapsing in tears at my GP's surgery in case she decides that I'm just depressed and that's causing the pain, rather than the pain making me ocassionally teary. Unfortunately, there is a GP up there who has made that diagnosis before with me which is probably where that fear comes from. I now refuse to see her :-) Being put on anti-depressants that I don't need and that in fact make me feel iller isn't a good plan. It was amazing how much better I was able to cope with life when the cause of the pain was found.

I'm hoping that this time, even though the pain has gone on a lot longer than the strained neck that the useless GP misdiagnosed, the same will be true and I'll find it easier to be cheerful and happy when the pain has actually been treated.

But that was a very interesting and useful show - I've bookmarked it and will be attempting to record it into MP3 later.

[gmul.livejournal.com]

I did record it so if you have any problems just shout and I can send it over.

[selenay]

Thanks! I'll have a fiddle with Da's software for recording these things this afternoon and ping you if I have problems :-)

[areyouscared.livejournal.com]

bad medical dramas? that doesnt include Diagnosis Murder does it, i love that show! x

[selenay]

It was Holby City, actually. I'm a sad addict :-)

But adore Diagnosis Murder because it's just so classically cliched and daft. My tastes in dramas aren't exactly sophisticated...