Updatening and things
Jul. 28th, 2020 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayMaybe we'll feel less discombobulated when I start watching The Untamed and she does the supportive co-watch with me? And then we might need to find another thing to watch together...
Anyway. This is not a Guardian post.
I have a week off next week. Probably. Someone today asked me whether I was going anywhere nice and I don't know how to reply to that honestly. "Yes, I'm going to my sofa to watch telly and read fic for a week" probably isn't what she's expecting. Heh.
The part of me that is finding it increasingly difficult to disengage from work every day knows this is an important thing to do. I haven't taken any time off since January and I'm told that moving house doesn't qualify as a restful holiday. Today I ended up texting my coworker to check my diary because I'd taken a late-ish lunch, had just made a sandwich, and couldn't remember whether I was supposed to be in a 2pm meeting right then. So at least I got to eat my lunch in peace. But my work meetings keep taking over my life and I'm getting increasingly frustrated with that, so I definitely need a break.
Except so much stuff keeps coming for my team to do and everyone is impatient for their stuff and OMG how can I be thinking about taking time off right now?
Yes, I know, there's never a time when this isn't true. I have to keep remembering that this week so I don't cancel my leave. Today's 5pm meeting is hopefully going to be the last post-work hours meeting of the week.
Mainly because...I'm going to be an ops rover at Worldcon! I'm not going to Worldcon itself, because all the programming is happening at night and I couldn't take the time off this week to attend it, but I'm working on the ops team in the evenings (and early Saturday morning). Apparently I can't say no when people put out the ops bat signal. Hey ho. It's going to be interesting, doing this for a virtual con.
I'm suddenly very glad that I've become reasonably familiar with Discord during these weird and troubled times.
But that does mean I can't do any late meetings for work after today and I'm hoping people actually check my calendar and notice that I've got the time booked out before they try scheduling things. It would make a nice change if they did.
Annie keeps licking my trackpad and scrolling this window. Helpful, cat. So helpful.
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Date: 2020-07-28 04:40 pm (UTC)I have several shows I can rec already. Once I watched one c-drama that apparently opened the floodgates. I haven't even touched the k-dramas or thai-dramas yet either.
"Yes, I'm going to my sofa to watch telly and read fic for a week"
That's exactly what I did with my week off and it was awesome!
The part of me that is finding it increasingly difficult to disengage from work every day knows this is an important thing to do.
God, I feel this so hard. Working from home makes it so hard to disengage. Like I did an extra hour tonight because I was in the middle of something and I didn't need to 'go home'. I finally took a week off last week and I didn't realise how stressed I was about work until the knowledge that I didn't need to log in for a week had me nearly crying with relief. So, yes, take your week off. I promise you'll feel better for it.
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Date: 2020-07-28 06:58 pm (UTC)Eee! I've already decided I probably need to do SCI at some point from your twittering :D
Working from home makes it so hard to disengage.
It is. There's no train I need to catch, no reason that I have to stop at my usual time, so it's really hard to disengage. And I can just quickly log in to look at something on a weekend or when I'm on leave, so why not? I always used to take my laptop home with me, but somehow it's harder to say no to work now.
It's the one thing that I don't love about WFH, although mostly I prefer it and would be happy to stay remote forever. I just need to learn to establish better boundaries and stop promising myself I'll do that in some nebulous future when things are quieter, because that future isn't coming.
until the knowledge that I didn't need to log in for a week had me nearly crying with relief
I suspect this will be me on Friday.
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Date: 2020-07-28 05:40 pm (UTC)Can't wait to 'supportively' cowatch our next show 😜
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Date: 2020-07-28 06:59 pm (UTC)I can probably find my Dublin one 😂
Can't wait to 'supportively' cowatch our next show
No matter how loudly you cackle at me, I'm going to love it 😁
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Date: 2020-07-29 02:37 am (UTC)*puzzled* What is "recovery from Guardian"?
But wow, yes, there are so many wonderful-sounding dramas out there!
I'm told that moving house doesn't qualify as a restful holiday.
DEFINITELY NOT. *stern* Vacation! Yes!
(I have to tell you, I'm feeling wistful that we're sharing a fandom now, after you moved far away. :/)
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Date: 2020-07-29 07:54 am (UTC)Fair point! *g*
(I have to tell you, I'm feeling wistful that we're sharing a fandom now, after you moved far away. :/)
It does feel a bit sad that we weren't sharing a fandom when I was still living there :(
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Date: 2020-07-30 03:23 am (UTC)Ah, the timing of the universe. :(