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[kyrielle]

I got to spend six whole hours today working on the same charge code. One major task and several little interruptions, but the same charge code. Or, really, same pair of charge codes; it was about 10-20% administrative, between emails and whatnot. But the major. Task. Didn't. Change.

YAY!

It still needs a little more work, plus I have to document the errors for someone, so I'll be working this weekend, but I'd expected that. I think I just might get ahead!

Right now, final backup of a few files from my work desktop is completing, then I check email again and go home. Backup's important, just in case something goes wrong - it's getting its motherboard replaced. *grins* Spiffy new systems.

With un-spiffy, old disks. Maybe I'll see what it would cost to upgrade that part, later this year.

Maybe not. I have my laptop, after all. That's MY toy. And it's now mostly behaving itself. I still can't hot-user switch and probably won't be able to until I can install the fixed version of the program that fucked it up, if then. The sad thing is it said it would impact this and gave me a chance to cancel but the damage, it turned out, was already done. Why it offered to let me fix it if it couldn't be fixed, I don't know. Stupid.

That's okay. That's a neat toy, but I don't actually need it the way I have the workstation set up. 'Cept for testing, but we'll set up a lab machine for that, instead.

Comments

[lady-of-mists.livejournal.com]

I do wish that I would be able to (i.e. have the patience to) just work on one thing until I was almost finished... But of course, no. I must always be interrupted, usually by things of lesser importance to my professors, but of greater importance to me in the maintenance of my sanity. Things like LJ... ;)

And of course, I'm going to enjoy seeing more entries by you! :)

Best wishes,

Ariana

[kyrielle]

Oh good! And yes, I'm prone to some interruptions. F'rex, "six hours straight" doesn't acknowledge that I did, in fact, handle several (related) tasks during that time, or that I took a break for lunch (but only just long enough).

But in comparison to what it's been like lately, where I was lucky to have one hour before someone else interrupted and asked me to do something else? And no one wanted no for an answer, and...gods, I hate being my own supervisor. It is sooooo nice now to have a supervisor who says, "Yes, switch tasks." or no, don't switch tasks.

It's so nice NOT to be the end of the chain any more.