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Jan. 2nd, 2018 08:05 amAwake and at work, in the sense that I am working from home and connected to my office computer and actively doing work things. It's 4 degrees F out there and I got sick last week with some kind of cold. I haven't left the house since... I think last Wednesday. I have to go out this evening, as I have an appointment I rescheduled last week that I can't really move a second time, but by that time the weather is supposed to be somewhat warmer than a summer's day on Mars.
... okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration. The temperature isn't Martian around here. The windchill is in those ranges. which would probably not bother me quite so much except that the MBTA issued a blanket warning last night saying that people who planned on using the T or the Boston bus system for their daily commute should just add twenty minutes to their usual commute time to account for probable delays caused by the cold. This did not seem compatible with the idea of getting to work without making myself sick again, so I emailed my boss to ask to work from home.
There were a few schools in northern Massachusetts that had delayed openings this morning, or closures for the weather. I can appreciate this; children don't need to be forced to stand in the cold while they wait for the schoolbus, and parents don't need to be delayed getting to work by either waiting with their kids in the car or driving the kids themselves. I'm a little bothered by the people who posted jeering comments about 'snowflakes' on the Boston Globe article about the kids at these schools. Can't tell how many of the comments were serious about blah blah generation of weaklings blah in my day we WALKED to school without FEET never mind HEAT blah, and how many of them were just people going 'ooh, cold temperatures, time to make a snow/weather/ice pun while looking Edgy!'. Memo to self: look, just... don't read the comments, okay?
Unrelated, the closest I am coming to a New Year's resolution this year is the vague idea that I should sit down this week, look at the lives and attitudes of my favorite supervillains, and see what aspects of these characters can be applied to my own life. I'd had the idea of a Doable New Year's Resolution to the effect of 'I will not become a supervillain', which quickly mutated to 'I will not become a supervillain, hint hint', and which was swiftly followed up by my brain pointing out that I very literally got my master's degree by aiding and abetting hypothetical supervillainy. (Seriously. Long story short, instead of a master's thesis, the Management Information Systems Master's degree program had us do a semester-long capstone project, writeup, and presentation, and I did mine on business process reorganization at Virtucon, Dr. Evil's company. Got an A in the class, too.) Between that and the villain writeups and work-ups I did in the business communications class (ALSO a class in which I got an A), approaching real-world questions and issues through the lens of supervillainy has been good to me in the past, and has made otherwise teeth-grinding situations bearable. It's... probably time that I just admit that there are more lessons to be learned from supervillains than the surviving Comics Code Authority vestiges would like, and see what I can draw from them in earnest.
... okay, that's a little bit of an exaggeration. The temperature isn't Martian around here. The windchill is in those ranges. which would probably not bother me quite so much except that the MBTA issued a blanket warning last night saying that people who planned on using the T or the Boston bus system for their daily commute should just add twenty minutes to their usual commute time to account for probable delays caused by the cold. This did not seem compatible with the idea of getting to work without making myself sick again, so I emailed my boss to ask to work from home.
There were a few schools in northern Massachusetts that had delayed openings this morning, or closures for the weather. I can appreciate this; children don't need to be forced to stand in the cold while they wait for the schoolbus, and parents don't need to be delayed getting to work by either waiting with their kids in the car or driving the kids themselves. I'm a little bothered by the people who posted jeering comments about 'snowflakes' on the Boston Globe article about the kids at these schools. Can't tell how many of the comments were serious about blah blah generation of weaklings blah in my day we WALKED to school without FEET never mind HEAT blah, and how many of them were just people going 'ooh, cold temperatures, time to make a snow/weather/ice pun while looking Edgy!'. Memo to self: look, just... don't read the comments, okay?
Unrelated, the closest I am coming to a New Year's resolution this year is the vague idea that I should sit down this week, look at the lives and attitudes of my favorite supervillains, and see what aspects of these characters can be applied to my own life. I'd had the idea of a Doable New Year's Resolution to the effect of 'I will not become a supervillain', which quickly mutated to 'I will not become a supervillain, hint hint', and which was swiftly followed up by my brain pointing out that I very literally got my master's degree by aiding and abetting hypothetical supervillainy. (Seriously. Long story short, instead of a master's thesis, the Management Information Systems Master's degree program had us do a semester-long capstone project, writeup, and presentation, and I did mine on business process reorganization at Virtucon, Dr. Evil's company. Got an A in the class, too.) Between that and the villain writeups and work-ups I did in the business communications class (ALSO a class in which I got an A), approaching real-world questions and issues through the lens of supervillainy has been good to me in the past, and has made otherwise teeth-grinding situations bearable. It's... probably time that I just admit that there are more lessons to be learned from supervillains than the surviving Comics Code Authority vestiges would like, and see what I can draw from them in earnest.
