weird Wednesday...

[jay]

Yesterday I was feeling a bit tired and edgy, slightly clingy... naturally, this was the workday this week with the most performance pressure. Two hours up in front of a dozen people this morning... talking about what a good job JL and I had done in cost estimating and program planning for our TSWIM air traffic middleware project. Dull stuff, but I suppose I should be happy to be an exemplar. Once on stage, adrenaline carried me through the talk.

Then... another briefing, a review of our drilling automation work after lunch. I'd been up the previous night until 2:30am working on these slides. We're getting ready to propose new work next week to the Exploration Office. A planning meeting, then I was off to take patgreene to the airport for her trip to Los Angeles. I was coming down from the adrenaline kick by then...

(As an aside, I'm getting sucked into lunar mission planning as the Ames representative to a Lunar Architecture Assessment panel, as of yesterday... may be going to Houston a few times.)

Then, I unwound... met p3aches for coffee in Campbell and shared our weeks, fed the kids at home, then went to Sunset and Port. Ahhh... soaking in a hot tub was just what I needed. Very pleasant company, and I got more practice in... including asking for minor things, and joining groups rather than hovering on the periphery. (smile) A positive difference, a month later.

Comments

[who-is-she.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're having so much success with asking for what you need, and being ok with the response, and joining in. None of it is easy.. at first. But practice is the way.

:)