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

[runeshower.livejournal.com]

It's great to hear that you're getting more relaxed with people. Go, you!

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

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.


Woo Hoo!

[basmati.livejournal.com]

Nice seeing you yesterday. If you have to go to Houston I can maybe tell you some places to go, although I'm not as familiar with the Clear Lake area..

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It was a pleasure seeing you again, at S&P. Even without the threat of getting my car towed ;-). Any fun places in Houston would be welcome... most of what I know are the usual restaurant and hotel chains, and places in strip shopping centers around Clear Lake and Texas City. Nothing alternative or artistic...

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

I had fun playing Carcassone with you and your table last Friday, too... I would have once hesitated. :)

[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.

:)

[basmati.livejournal.com]

Are you willing/able to get downtown while you're there? That's the area I know best, aside from where my parents live, which is also Strip Mall Hell (only on the northwest side of Houston).

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Sure... I have a rental car when I'm there (usually fly to IAH airport and drive down to the south). Sometimes I'll wander up to the Westheimer area on the west side, too.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Looks like I'm headed there next Monday, as it happens... :)

[basmati.livejournal.com]

OK, your friend who actually lives there will be a lot more helpful than me, since my knowledge is rusty :). I can tell you about one of my favorite art collections: the Menil collection. http://www.menil.org/ Also one of my favorite buildings, designed by Renzo Piano (call me an architecture geek). Dominique de Menil was one of the world's foremost collectors of Surrealist art, as well as a bunch of other interesting stuff. I've no idea if you're actually interested in art, tho. If you are, there's also the Rothko Chapel, not far from there.

How long will you be in Houston? I hope you have a good time.