Just got through a mellow weekend - good night out downtown Friday with the expat crowd, starting at the Triple Door and ending at this proto-yuppie red-lit place in Belltown whose name I forget. My friend Stephanie from Boston flew in to meet some friends in Seattle and we got a chance to hang out. I met her in J-school in Denmark in 01 and she's working at the Boston Globe now, just got a Fulbright scholarship for another J-school program in Germany in the summer. I'm still loving the novelty of having time to out on the town and social, and there are a few more good shows coming up in the next few weeks before I have to fly out again.
The rest of the weekend has been pleasantly slow - I've been sleeping 9-10 hours a night and I'm still exhausted. Studied for work on the laptop in bed most of the day, and caught Eat Drink Man Woman with Cecilie in the afternoon (made me nostalgic for 1994 and desperate for some elaborate Chinese cooking.) Trying to gear up for work tomorrow but it's hard.
I'm really enjoying the new job but the level of complexity involved is pretty amazing and the learning curve has been brutal. It's been working so far but I need to take a more active role now than I have in the past in order to solve some structural and process issues I've been seeing. Need to get this to continue to work while gathering more of the context that will help me understand how all the pieces fit together.
When I was prowling around a used bookstore a couple of weeks ago I found two issues of the "Astounding Science Fiction" pocket books from 1958, and I've been poring through these before going to sleep (or last night, sitting in the bath with a glass of whisky). Sad thing is, the optimism and escapism of that (generally pretty awful) writing style is making me long for the days when life was a little simpler.
But I guess that's a natural instinct when you're on a hard-vertical learning curve. Must go on.
Posted by case at April 20, 2008 09:56 PM