I am such a sucker for a compliment from my boss, and coworkers. I have a friend that used to say she'd work for compliments if the rent could be paid in them. I know how she feels.
Yesterday, I got a nice compliment from a co-worker who has been with the company for many years and who is, I guess in a position of authority above me. Not my boss, but definitely not on my level. He tends to be a little effusive in his praise, so when he said he really liked this report I did, I took it with a grain of salt. He's not real computer literate so making Excel do nice graphs and such, can seem a little like magic to him. He mentioned it again today, saying that the higher ups liked it too. I'm thinking "okay, so?"
However, I realized that maybe I wasn't treating his comments with the proper respect, when my boss (whom I greatly admire and respect, and who can do just about anything I can in Excel) stopped by today and mentioned that she LOVED the report, and she's happy she got a graph she didn't have to tweak!
Getting a compliment from T, cool, not completely difficult to do. Getting a compliment from my boss (J), not unheard of, but worth more when it was as sincere as this one. And she was bragging about me to other coworkers!
Then to top it off, I got called in to the big boss's office and asked to recombine some of the info for reports I helped T put together. Of course, every, single time my phone rings and it shows the Big Boss's # my heart skips a beat. It's good when it's good news.
I guess it's been a pretty good day ... Oh yeah and we have been getting some MUCH needed rain here in Texas. So I hopeful that we will have an AWESOME wildflower season next year - that would be coooooool.
I know I haven't blogged much about my photography, and I will get back to that. I hope to get some good "rainy" pictures this weekend (YAY RAIN!)
Friday, September 11, 2009
Monday, September 7, 2009
Adjusting
I haven't felt much like blogging this week. Seems by the time I get home from work I am too tired to do much of anything. My office just moved and I am now twice as far (in miles) from my home to office. The morning drive is not so bad, but the evening commute is maddeningly insane(I had forgotten what LA and SF traffic is like, not having lived in them for awhile now). Being nominally aware that this would be the case, I had investigated taking public transportation.
The first three days, I drove due to various reasons. On Thursday I took the bus. Having used public transport before; I allowed extra time to get to work. Coming home was not such a big deal as I had no time commitments to meet. Friday, I found the bus connections I am likely to stick with, as I was almost late on Thursday (and by my usual arrival time, I was late, but I digress).
This new routine is going to take a little getting used to, but I am sure in a week or two, I won't feel so tired all the time. Having adjusted before, I will again.
I am also adjusting my focus. Outside of my daily job, I am trying to find a subject. Just one subject, that interests me enough to want to photograph it again and again. I have tried this before, but found a few flaws in my original choices of subject. This is hard to do.
I am also researching places with on-demand printing (like Cafe Press and LuLu) to do calendars. I want to but I get concerned about the quality of the printing and the quality of the paper/inks used to print the photos. These sites seem like a great way to address the production cost of calendars, etc. I just get worried about the end product. I don't want to put my photos and my name on something that isn't decent quality. Yes I know it's a calendar and meant to be thrown away, but I also know some people who have framed prints from calendars because they were beautiful. I want to put out something that is frameable. Not one of the photos from a calendar of my stuff may ever end up in a frame, but I would like it to be an option.
Anyway, so I am adjusting to lots of different things. I am however not yet making the one adjustment I want which is having my hubby home. Oh well, patience is not my virtue, but I have always known how to endure.
The first three days, I drove due to various reasons. On Thursday I took the bus. Having used public transport before; I allowed extra time to get to work. Coming home was not such a big deal as I had no time commitments to meet. Friday, I found the bus connections I am likely to stick with, as I was almost late on Thursday (and by my usual arrival time, I was late, but I digress).
This new routine is going to take a little getting used to, but I am sure in a week or two, I won't feel so tired all the time. Having adjusted before, I will again.
I am also adjusting my focus. Outside of my daily job, I am trying to find a subject. Just one subject, that interests me enough to want to photograph it again and again. I have tried this before, but found a few flaws in my original choices of subject. This is hard to do.
I am also researching places with on-demand printing (like Cafe Press and LuLu) to do calendars. I want to but I get concerned about the quality of the printing and the quality of the paper/inks used to print the photos. These sites seem like a great way to address the production cost of calendars, etc. I just get worried about the end product. I don't want to put my photos and my name on something that isn't decent quality. Yes I know it's a calendar and meant to be thrown away, but I also know some people who have framed prints from calendars because they were beautiful. I want to put out something that is frameable. Not one of the photos from a calendar of my stuff may ever end up in a frame, but I would like it to be an option.
Anyway, so I am adjusting to lots of different things. I am however not yet making the one adjustment I want which is having my hubby home. Oh well, patience is not my virtue, but I have always known how to endure.
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