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At work today, I got the lovely sort of compliment I really enjoy - the mock-bitching kind. I left a meeting at just shy of 11 am. By 3 pm I had written up a sketch outline of the design doc for the item the meeting was about (it was complex, but this is only a sketch, so only 7 or 8 pages in the end - L will go over it, update it, send it back to me, and so on, as we collaborate on filling in the details) and had also added screen shots (of things that don't exist yet, I am stubborn) to another document.
Got this in my email, from L (who has to review both the full document and the other document, which I updated as far as textual contents yesterday in addition to adding the screen shots today): "How do you pump out so much stuff so quickly. I can't read as fast as you write, and that seems wrong!"
*beams* I told him it's because I like talking. I've always been a fast typist, the problem is not actually entering the words but thinking of them. The last full design I did (which is neither of the documents changed today) was much, much harder, because instead of a collaboration where I could sketch it in (or where, as is the case with the screenshots, I was the secondary collaborator and L did the sketch-in), it was one I had to write totally on my own (as L did two other documents so far) at the outset. I mean, everyone will have input, but it was supposed to be "ready" when it left my hands, instead of "roughed out". It makes a difference. That one took me six hours to write up. So it's not all fast, but that was mostly thinking and review time, trying to make sure I didn't lose anything!
As for the "gifts" part of the subject line, one of the project managers asked us a week or two ago to do some work on very short notice to get her info and bail her out, promising us chocolate all the way. Considering that is sort of our job (well, part of it), I figured she was joking and joked along cheerfully. Though if I'd gotten a few little Hershey's bars it would not have surprised me and I would have just grinned and written a thank you note.
This was N, Y (my boss) and myself. She sent us collectively a single Ghiradelli's gift pack. And that was torture. Cheap stuff, I could have been good and dropped my portion on the other two or into the office's general candy dish. But this is the good stuff, and it had two things of mint drops, a mint bar.... It had a lot of other stuff, but the mint is my weakness.
So I looked at the nutrition statements, decided I could balance out a bit of bliss (I'm already doing it), and took the mint bar. Left everything else. N also avoided it for reasons of her diet, so here is Y staring at this big ol' thing of Ghiradelli's chocolate.... I'm not sure how much he will take home or if any will go to the team.
I'm still very surprised she did that, and rather amused. I'm also going to write her up a nice thank-you card for it. I'm just still in shock that she took it quite that literally....
Got this in my email, from L (who has to review both the full document and the other document, which I updated as far as textual contents yesterday in addition to adding the screen shots today): "How do you pump out so much stuff so quickly. I can't read as fast as you write, and that seems wrong!"
*beams* I told him it's because I like talking. I've always been a fast typist, the problem is not actually entering the words but thinking of them. The last full design I did (which is neither of the documents changed today) was much, much harder, because instead of a collaboration where I could sketch it in (or where, as is the case with the screenshots, I was the secondary collaborator and L did the sketch-in), it was one I had to write totally on my own (as L did two other documents so far) at the outset. I mean, everyone will have input, but it was supposed to be "ready" when it left my hands, instead of "roughed out". It makes a difference. That one took me six hours to write up. So it's not all fast, but that was mostly thinking and review time, trying to make sure I didn't lose anything!
As for the "gifts" part of the subject line, one of the project managers asked us a week or two ago to do some work on very short notice to get her info and bail her out, promising us chocolate all the way. Considering that is sort of our job (well, part of it), I figured she was joking and joked along cheerfully. Though if I'd gotten a few little Hershey's bars it would not have surprised me and I would have just grinned and written a thank you note.
This was N, Y (my boss) and myself. She sent us collectively a single Ghiradelli's gift pack. And that was torture. Cheap stuff, I could have been good and dropped my portion on the other two or into the office's general candy dish. But this is the good stuff, and it had two things of mint drops, a mint bar.... It had a lot of other stuff, but the mint is my weakness.
So I looked at the nutrition statements, decided I could balance out a bit of bliss (I'm already doing it), and took the mint bar. Left everything else. N also avoided it for reasons of her diet, so here is Y staring at this big ol' thing of Ghiradelli's chocolate.... I'm not sure how much he will take home or if any will go to the team.
I'm still very surprised she did that, and rather amused. I'm also going to write her up a nice thank-you card for it. I'm just still in shock that she took it quite that literally....
