Posted by llrrrpp on August 27, 2006, at 22:11:12
In reply to Re: Goals for Friday: Kernel Panic » llrrrpp, posted by Jost on August 27, 2006, at 12:56:30
> Ll, I'll have to scowl at you, then, a lot, for your very sweetly forgiving Profs. Grrrrrrrr.
OOOOohhhhhh! I'm getting scared. Jost. that grr doesn't go well with your shirt.
> If only you were right, though.
>
> Unf. this is a bit more drastic. I should mention that my coworker is not US citizen. Is studying in US. Is going back to old country at the end of Sept.That's bad news. I'm so sorry.
> I'd explain, except I'd start babbling again. not psychobabbling, just babbling.
>Lucky me. Made a lot of progress.good- hold onto that feeling. progress is progress.
> Right before I woke up this am., I had a short dream that Co-worker B, also in process of semi-scr*wing me, had come an hour earlier than I thought, and that I was sleeping. I was awakened (in dream) by her voice on my answering machine, angrily telling me off, because I hadn't let in her, and she'd been waiting for over half an hour in the hall. ---I felt lousy, since I'd probably screwed things up permanently with her. but it wasn't really my fault... (I"m not sure why, but it seemed as if she wasn't supposed to come that early)
Geez Jost- they are invading your sleep now? Make them go away. Seriously. yuck. You've got a T? Can you talk about this and get some feedback on how to either deal with difficult people more productively OR how best to take your dose of Fukitol. Seriously, work is great, and progress is invigorating, but Life should be LIVED! work is only one thing we do. We do not live in order to maximize our working selves. We should work in order to maximize our living selves. Isn't that some splendid nonsense? I maximized myself a lot today, on that topic. Have decided to pursue a more sensible diet when I get a chance.
> It's different from grad school-- wish I were Prof. and they were students. Think I'd get some R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Also they'd be hanging around for years and years, right down the hall-- captive co-workers, right where I could find them and glare at them from my position of righteous professorship.[...]then go to faculty meeting, very ostentiously, and as if I were about to give them a bad report. (I'm really mean, underneath any facade of niceness that I manage to mount, if I do.)
Jost. I do not respect professors that try to rule through fear. I avoid them. I RESPECT people who make me want to be better. I RESPECT people who listen to me, and know me well enough to tell me how my strengths can help me overcome my weaknesses. I RESPECT people who show kindness and forgiveness in the face of hardship, without losing a sense of what is important to them.
Seriously, this gruff thing doesn't match your shirt. you want to be pompous? fine. maybe I'll work hard for you. In the meanwhile, I'd work on getting out of a position where you had any kind of power over me.
-ll
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