{"id":10760,"date":"2013-08-29T22:47:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2013-08-29T22:47:30","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T02:47:30","slug":"thursday-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=10760","title":{"rendered":"Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When the best decision you make all day is to buy an orange and eat it at lunch, this suggests a number of possible things. One: all of the other decisions you’ve made that day have not<\/i> been good. Two: you’ve made precious few decisions that day at all. Or three: it was an incredibly tasty orange.<\/p>\n

It was a good orange, which I decided to add to my turkey sandwich and soda on a last-minute whim. It’s not much, as far as whims go, but it was a nice grace note to my lunch, while I sat and listened to the audiobook of Stephen King’s Wizard and Glass<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I tried<\/i> making some other decisions. I wouldn’t call them “not good,” but they didn’t necessarily pan out:<\/p>\n

Me: I’m not sure I want to attend this presentation next month…
\nCompany: Oh, but you should.
\nMe: Really? Well, okay…
\nCompany: But it’s full.
\nMe: Oh…
\nCompany: But hey, here, we’ve set up another session on a different day.
\nMe: I don’t know…that conflicts with a meeting I already have scheduled for that morning…
\nCompany: C’mon, everybody’s going! Don’t be left out!
\nMe: Well, since you put it that way… All right. So I just click this link here and —
\nCompany: Oh sorry. That session is full.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep. Its not critical that I go, but it did seem like it would be useful. I mean, I skipped having a day of telecommuting this week just so I could attend another presentation, so it’s not like I’m unwilling. <\/p>\n

I spent almost every other moment of the day working on a massive research report. It’s three hundred and twenty-something pages right now and counting, and it has consumed a lot of my time over the past couple of weeks. It’s partly my own fault for including so many instructors in the research — you ask thirty people nearly thirty questions each and you have to expect a lot of data to sift through — but I wanted as even a split between US and UK instructors as I could get. I didn’t<\/i> quite get that, in part because this has been a lousy summer for getting reviewers to commit and then deliver their feedback. (That, or I’m just tangled in a string of bad luck.) But I’m fairly pleased with what I did pull together, and now I’m just trying to pull together some sense in it all, whereby I can make some active recommendations that will hopefully help us sell more copies of this one textbook and others in the same area.<\/p>\n

And finally, summer hours are over after this week. I liked having a half day on Friday — tomorrow’s the last one — but I’ll really be glad to get back to the old work schedule. Especially as we move into autumn and the sun starts setting a little earlier. It’s already started to happen, a little, although otherwise, weather-wise, we still seem stuck firmly in hot and humid summer.<\/p>\n

I think I just might be ready for fall, for long sleeves and jackets. August was a fast month, but not a great one, and I think it’s cured me of wanting an endless summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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