Randomness post
Oct. 17th, 2017 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosa_heartlily OK, here's a bit of trivia for you. I've been watching a Let's Play of The Bouncer (Square Enix Does Beat 'Em Up), whose MCs are all bouncers at a club called Fate on Dog Street. In KH2 (Square Enix Does Strange Things With Disney), Pence wears a basket ball shirt with Dog Street written on it. Nice little nod to the past, I thought.
Yesterday was one of the strangest days I've ever had at work. I had a 9.30am meeting and just couldn't get a handle on the day after that. It wasn't a weird meeting in any way but the rest of the day was. There was a point where I felt if someone had asked me my name I'd have struggled to answer them. Anyway, the day passed super-quick which is no bad thing and I walked part of the way home with C who lives not far from me. He paid me a rather sweet compliment, which I acknowledged without either making a big deal of it or reminding him that I'm almost old enough to be his mother (he's about 6 months older than my daughter).
I had a bit of a grumble to my line manager that every time I speak to anyone about the Random-Collection-Of-Things-Usually-Referred-To-As-The-Project I feel like I'm learning something new. There's a task to be done that nobody has ever mentioned before, or Thing X isn't as far along as I thought, or Thing Y is done and nobody told me. He said not to worry about it because he feels exactly the same. He's also frustrated that we can't just leave people to get on with stuff they've agreed to do, but have to keep reminding them or even putting stuff in their diaries for them. The big problem with this piece of work is that it's really nobody's priority, so nobody worries if it gets pushed out by something else. But we WILL have it all done by Christmas this year, I swear. I just want to get on with the rest of my life!
Having said that, I do think it's probably a good First Project. It really is a case study in 'how not to do a project' and can only be good from a learning perspective. When I start my First Real Project, everything will be different!
My thoughts on the Possible Nano 2017 are coming along. Of course, I'm mostly thinking about the nice bits but I do have a sort of plan. The first third will focus on the MC - the new Sultan - and his descent into horror and madness. The second third will tell the same story from the point of view of his twin sister, who can only watch helplessly but who then tries to take matters into her own hands. The last third will tell the story from the point of view of the genie, which will stitch the other two thirds together. The genie is gender-neutral but appears female to the Sultan and male to the Princess. It also exists outside our space-time but has interacted with humans for so long that it does understand conventional story structure. Yay for literary devices! The final chapter will draw the three strands together to the happy (at least, that's how it's planned at the moment!) ending. I just need to work on the deep, dark and nasty things that I am going to have to dredge up...
'Liar' finished last night and I am left more than a little disappointed. I don't know if I can bear to put myself through the second series. It just got so improbable. On the other hand, I am curious about who did the deed...
Well, time to get this day underway. Hopefully, it'll make rather more sense than yesterday did!
Yesterday was one of the strangest days I've ever had at work. I had a 9.30am meeting and just couldn't get a handle on the day after that. It wasn't a weird meeting in any way but the rest of the day was. There was a point where I felt if someone had asked me my name I'd have struggled to answer them. Anyway, the day passed super-quick which is no bad thing and I walked part of the way home with C who lives not far from me. He paid me a rather sweet compliment, which I acknowledged without either making a big deal of it or reminding him that I'm almost old enough to be his mother (he's about 6 months older than my daughter).
I had a bit of a grumble to my line manager that every time I speak to anyone about the Random-Collection-Of-Things-Usually-Referred-To-As-The-Project I feel like I'm learning something new. There's a task to be done that nobody has ever mentioned before, or Thing X isn't as far along as I thought, or Thing Y is done and nobody told me. He said not to worry about it because he feels exactly the same. He's also frustrated that we can't just leave people to get on with stuff they've agreed to do, but have to keep reminding them or even putting stuff in their diaries for them. The big problem with this piece of work is that it's really nobody's priority, so nobody worries if it gets pushed out by something else. But we WILL have it all done by Christmas this year, I swear. I just want to get on with the rest of my life!
Having said that, I do think it's probably a good First Project. It really is a case study in 'how not to do a project' and can only be good from a learning perspective. When I start my First Real Project, everything will be different!
My thoughts on the Possible Nano 2017 are coming along. Of course, I'm mostly thinking about the nice bits but I do have a sort of plan. The first third will focus on the MC - the new Sultan - and his descent into horror and madness. The second third will tell the same story from the point of view of his twin sister, who can only watch helplessly but who then tries to take matters into her own hands. The last third will tell the story from the point of view of the genie, which will stitch the other two thirds together. The genie is gender-neutral but appears female to the Sultan and male to the Princess. It also exists outside our space-time but has interacted with humans for so long that it does understand conventional story structure. Yay for literary devices! The final chapter will draw the three strands together to the happy (at least, that's how it's planned at the moment!) ending. I just need to work on the deep, dark and nasty things that I am going to have to dredge up...
'Liar' finished last night and I am left more than a little disappointed. I don't know if I can bear to put myself through the second series. It just got so improbable. On the other hand, I am curious about who did the deed...
Well, time to get this day underway. Hopefully, it'll make rather more sense than yesterday did!
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Date: 2017-10-25 02:59 am (UTC)