Slip-sliding...
Jan. 23rd, 2003 08:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jayI'm inexplicably down this morning... listening to an early-morning telecon, after arriving home around 2am. I'm losing track of threads, I feel... not giving every project its deserved attention. And... I feel distance between myself and my partners and friends.
Except for Nancy, who was full of energy and affection during a brief stopover in -5F Minneapolis yesterday evening (we practiced ice-dance steps, sliding on her hardwood floor ).geekchick seemed burned-out, tired and a bit unfocussed late last night (I flew into San Jose instead of SFO, joined her and her co-workers at their hotel's hot tub, then took a cab home).
But the FAA guys were pleased with my presentation on system-wide airspace-management IT. Several were folks I'd met on an air traffic project I'd run 5 years ago, quasi-familiar faces.
The three automated-drilling projects are just barely meeting expectations... granted, it's early on them all. Vehicle health management is slowly winding down (but consuming lots of time), this new air-traffic project is spinning-up (and demanding more time), and thanks to two management changes, my new boss knows nothing about what I'm doing or have done. Sigh.
I'm trying to write a paper on the results of our humans vs. rover exploration science-productivity study, conducted at a Mars-analog site in the Arctic last summer. The first draft is due for internal review in a couple of weeks, final version in a bit less than a month. The results are in the form of written geological characterizations of the given field site, one from each set of participants (exploration method). I'm trying to pull out the number of observations, hypotheses and conclusions and create a rough metric of "scientific return" for comparing these.
But after three consecutive weeks of business travel, and loud competing demands on my time, I'm feeling lonely, burned-out and a bit down. Must muster energy to attack the paper and my falling-behind projects....
Except for Nancy, who was full of energy and affection during a brief stopover in -5F Minneapolis yesterday evening (we practiced ice-dance steps, sliding on her hardwood floor ).
geekchick seemed burned-out, tired and a bit unfocussed late last night (I flew into San Jose instead of SFO, joined her and her co-workers at their hotel's hot tub, then took a cab home). But the FAA guys were pleased with my presentation on system-wide airspace-management IT. Several were folks I'd met on an air traffic project I'd run 5 years ago, quasi-familiar faces.
The three automated-drilling projects are just barely meeting expectations... granted, it's early on them all. Vehicle health management is slowly winding down (but consuming lots of time), this new air-traffic project is spinning-up (and demanding more time), and thanks to two management changes, my new boss knows nothing about what I'm doing or have done. Sigh.
I'm trying to write a paper on the results of our humans vs. rover exploration science-productivity study, conducted at a Mars-analog site in the Arctic last summer. The first draft is due for internal review in a couple of weeks, final version in a bit less than a month. The results are in the form of written geological characterizations of the given field site, one from each set of participants (exploration method). I'm trying to pull out the number of observations, hypotheses and conclusions and create a rough metric of "scientific return" for comparing these.
But after three consecutive weeks of business travel, and loud competing demands on my time, I'm feeling lonely, burned-out and a bit down. Must muster energy to attack the paper and my falling-behind projects....
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Date: 2003-01-23 09:27 am (UTC)I'm sorry to hear you feel distance. What do you think is causing it? I suspect being on the road for 3 weeks is a major factor, and once things settle down you'll close the gap on that distance.
The three automated-drilling projects are just barely meeting expectations... granted, it's early on them all.
I've been concerned about these projects as well. Let's talk about this when I come in -- which will be in about another hour or so.
thanks to two management changes, my new boss knows nothing about what I'm doing or have done. Sigh.
I was wondering how all the IC changes would affect us. More discussion there, too, would be useful.
But after three consecutive weeks of business travel, and loud competing demands on my time, I'm feeling lonely, burned-out and a bit down. Must muster energy to attack the paper and my falling-behind projects....
I'm sorry you're feeling lonely, burned-out, and a bit down. =( *hugs*
Could you just catch your breath for a moment and attack the project one little piece at a time? I'm hoping that if I do that, I'll feel less self-concious about how the drilling projects are going. I've been given some hard deadlines in the short run and I have to work on things a little at a time myself. IVHM and the trip to AL drained me a bit, and I'm coming down with the gang's cold. So doing things a little at a time is all I can do anyway.
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Date: 2003-01-25 02:54 am (UTC)Thanks for the hug ;-). But take care of that cold, you looked noticeably worse today than yesterday... hopefully tonight's steam helped.
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Date: 2003-01-23 11:14 am (UTC)What can I do to help?
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Date: 2003-01-25 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-01-23 11:20 pm (UTC)That would pretty much sum it up right there, I am and was all of those things. It's been a very long week. =/
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Date: 2003-01-25 02:51 am (UTC)