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Day 978: Structure and Discipline
Mar. 23rd, 2011 09:04 pmSo much to do, so little time.
Right now I've been incredibly disciplined about getting up in the morning, working out, doing my daily doses of writing. I'm honestly going to have to consolidate my writing projects, cut down on some of them if I hope to ever be able to keep up. I find my writing stagnating a bit, where I can write snatches of brilliance but a novel is but a faint glimmer or dream.
Notwithstanding random moments of fandom or Cody's birthday present.
Yesterday, oddly enough, included a random lawyer photoshoot. I don't know if the fruits of that photoshoot have appeared on the firm website yet - maybe I'll do an ego search and find out - but it was interesting, to say the least. Today the schedule went haywire due to IT mishaps and other fine things, so I spent an awful lot of time in front of my new computer (complete with two screens) choking down what I could of a nearly 500-page training manual. I can read fast, but still, that's not easy. I've also come to the decision that my weird narco-like behaviour is stress-induced. I can see the pattern now - I was narco during my first semester of law school and during the trial team semester and during bar prep. But otherwise I've been pretty okay. So once I stop being narco at work it's a sign I'm getting there..
This firm is formal and a bit scary, but I appreciate their philosophy, and I know what seems like faintly pretentious branding is actually all right. Lots of the things they focus on (timeslipping, timeslipping!) is for efficiency, accuracy, and other things that make a business successful (and keep us employees safe, like emailing whenever we're in or out of the building so roll can be taken in case of an emergency evacuation). And having been raised to be in the world but not of the world, I can appreciate their philosophy and attitude toward standing out, and not just standing up in court. I'm nervous and a bit scared, but I can do this.
Weirdest of all, one of the lawyers (my supervisor) looks like my friend Liz's boyfriend, and another one looks like Ryan H., my old home teacher who's now a lawyer in Arizona.
Weird. Except Ryan never wore a bow-tie.
I survived today at the office, got some useful things done, and I can get more useful things done here at home. I definitely need to reprioritize some things if I want my time at home to be at all useful, but I'm determined to rise to the challenges before me. Here goes!
On a random MI-5 note, I learned that Ken's weapon in WK, the tiger claw, also called bugnuk, was originally Indian. Hee!
Right now I've been incredibly disciplined about getting up in the morning, working out, doing my daily doses of writing. I'm honestly going to have to consolidate my writing projects, cut down on some of them if I hope to ever be able to keep up. I find my writing stagnating a bit, where I can write snatches of brilliance but a novel is but a faint glimmer or dream.
Notwithstanding random moments of fandom or Cody's birthday present.
Yesterday, oddly enough, included a random lawyer photoshoot. I don't know if the fruits of that photoshoot have appeared on the firm website yet - maybe I'll do an ego search and find out - but it was interesting, to say the least. Today the schedule went haywire due to IT mishaps and other fine things, so I spent an awful lot of time in front of my new computer (complete with two screens) choking down what I could of a nearly 500-page training manual. I can read fast, but still, that's not easy. I've also come to the decision that my weird narco-like behaviour is stress-induced. I can see the pattern now - I was narco during my first semester of law school and during the trial team semester and during bar prep. But otherwise I've been pretty okay. So once I stop being narco at work it's a sign I'm getting there..
This firm is formal and a bit scary, but I appreciate their philosophy, and I know what seems like faintly pretentious branding is actually all right. Lots of the things they focus on (timeslipping, timeslipping!) is for efficiency, accuracy, and other things that make a business successful (and keep us employees safe, like emailing whenever we're in or out of the building so roll can be taken in case of an emergency evacuation). And having been raised to be in the world but not of the world, I can appreciate their philosophy and attitude toward standing out, and not just standing up in court. I'm nervous and a bit scared, but I can do this.
Weirdest of all, one of the lawyers (my supervisor) looks like my friend Liz's boyfriend, and another one looks like Ryan H., my old home teacher who's now a lawyer in Arizona.
Weird. Except Ryan never wore a bow-tie.
I survived today at the office, got some useful things done, and I can get more useful things done here at home. I definitely need to reprioritize some things if I want my time at home to be at all useful, but I'm determined to rise to the challenges before me. Here goes!
On a random MI-5 note, I learned that Ken's weapon in WK, the tiger claw, also called bugnuk, was originally Indian. Hee!
