Tag: work

I’ve just been through 3 days of advanced project management training through Webex. Super interesting, but I’m braindead. Also, for the past 3 days, my step count has struggled to go beyond 1000. Today is a record, at 412.

I need to go run.

I love the fact that I work in an environment where it’s ok to send this in reply to an email you get from your department head.

In all of the covid fun and games in the last year, I’ve been working from home quite a bit. During the first lockdown last year, I was WFH 100%, then we started alternating one week at the office, one week home. Then when the second wave started to get worse, even on the weeks we were supposed to be at the office, we were asked to WFH for a few days in those weeks.

From the start of 2021, I’ve been WFH all the time, and that’s going to be like that until after Easter now, based on the latest directives. Work has actually been very supportive, giving us a small allowance to buy office furniture and supplies. The major downside to all of this is the loss of the sense of separation between work and home. In essence, my office was snack in my bedroom. Also it meant that Katy didn’t have any chance of getting any quiet space for herself. To try and counter this, we’ve moved the office into the guest bedroom. We’ll see how that works in the coming weeks.

As part of a recent planning exercise, we had to talk about what we thought we were good at, what we liked about ourselves and what we’d like to change about ourselves. Then others gave us love bombs to say what they loved about us. A nice, feel-good moment. It’s nice to be appreciated.