Good morning!

Of course, how would I know? :) I haven't gone outside yet. But I'm awake. I know I had dreams; they were interesting; and darnit, I lost them on waking as I thought through what I needed to do today. I feel a lot more alive/together than I have for a few days, though. This is good.

Here's hoping it survives the workday? :)

Streamers!

It's a coworker's birthday today. His VP is up to talk to him (presumably unrelated to his birthday, but who knows) in a bit. His door is filled with hanging streamers, twisted streamers criss-cross his office and the hallway in front....

It's cool, if a bit odd compared to the low-key birthdays we usually do around here. I guess N. wanted to make it a bit more because of his boss being here?

Various work and weekend babblings.

( Not horribly lengthy, but somewhat, and a bit disjointed.... )

...whee!

*giggles* I really can't seem to avoid it - at least, unless I became something I'm not, or gave up things I like (like my hair). People start treating me as a mix of child and adult. They did it when I was a child; they do it now that I'm grown and working.

The woman in HR who has been helping me with the hiring process (and has been treated to my vast confusion because the process was just introduced, nobody told me about it until I'd already started doing things the way we USED to do them, and I've had no training) has been very nice. But she's also calling me "sweetie".

I've had friends who would have lost it, or at the very least felt she was being awful. Me? I find it amusing. I mean...I can see what it is that prompts it. I just don't see the need to change it. I'm not doing it to get that reaction, so I don't feel bad about it; the reaction doesn't affect my ability to do my job (at least not negatively) as far as I can tell; so why worry about it?

Doing things.

I had a to-do list today. I have an hour left till I would normally leave work. The following are the numbers:

6 items done successfully.
1 item attempted - half-succeeded. Actual item was to validate some code. I validated it, it's wrong, pieces are missing, and the person who can supply the missing pieces will be back Tuesday, so. As done as it's going to get.
1 item deferred as a bad idea before a holiday weekend (updating code at a client site that presently appears to be working Just Fine).
3 items yet to do, two of which are trivial, the other of which may not be completed.
1 optional, large item to go forward on if I happened to complete all the preceding, which is just Not Happening now.

Not too bad. Not too bad.