Blog on the Lillypad
Wednesday, October 22, 2003
 | Stress and the Single Woman
Well, with all that's been going on with the Fighting Fundamentalist Forum (I'm writing this on Wednesday night, so they're all at prayer meeting right now.), and the continuing difficulties I'm having with my back and this early menopause thing, I've been pretty stressed. Today when I came in to work, I really did not want to engage in chit-chat. I was nice to everybody, but I was really praying that I'd be left alone. Jodi ("Joadster") is a woman I've worked with before, on a different contract. She's breezy, engaging, and a devoted mother to her 7-year old daughter. She and I ran out for 30 minutes to the sandwhich shop down the road. I told her that I was really glad to get away from it for a half hour and laugh with her. (She's got a sense of humor about everything.) Funny, how a half hour with a good-natured, witty and gentle person is such a boost. |
| Then we had a meeting that was supposed to last for one hour, but it went to two hours. One reason it went to two hours is that some of our people think very divergently and need to speak to more fully engage their thought processes. How I hate divergent thinking. So we sat and talked about every tiny, miniscule possibility in our documentation, and we kept taking votes on everything to put into or take out of our document template. Our team lead handled herself very well through this, not much helped when I frowned at her and pulled my own hair very fiercely as though I were in pain while all the talking was going round and round and driving me crazy. |  |
