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[bronwynrh]

1. Out of the past 35 days, I have had a migraine for 16. Also, I have had multiple frightening moments of absolute stupidity. I think my brain is melting.

2. Mom and dad left Houston today and are on their way to visit Jeff and me. They'll be here sometime tomorrow. Yay!

3. I'm still diddling at bench stuff for my (now former) boss. Tomorrow, I cut the cord and allow his people to pillage my bench. The Big Question: can I keep this lovely desktop computer? If not, there will be hard drive wiping and much gnashing of teeth in my near future. Did I burn all my downloaded tunes to CD? My laptop is on life-support, but I suppose I will begin lugging it back and forth every day. *sob* I will miss this computer.

Seriously, this is making me very sad.

4. I go on vacation tomorrow afternoon (see item 2). Although I'm not going anywhere, I doubt I'll be here very much. You guys are so prolific, I'll be eons behind by the time I get back. And hell, when I get back to the lab, I might be without a computer.

Can you tell how this is stressing me out?

5. This post rivals the previous one for dullness.

6. I need a nap.

Comments

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Work transitions are always bittersweet. I hope the sweet overwhelms the bitter for you.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That's my hope, too.

[dburr13.livejournal.com]

writing about what is stressing you is good therapy...it gives you kind of a checklist of stress filled things in your life...in time some of these things will lose the power to cause you stress...when you analyze your list you will see that some of the problems causing stress are only temporary...making the long term outlook a little more bearable to consider.

[bramey.livejournal.com]

True. Believe me, I have these things firmly in perspective.

The headaches are of course the worst of it, and even they aren't the worst of all possible bad things.

Just sort of bleh and drowsy today, I guess.

[kendokamel.livejournal.com]

I'll be feeling your work-move anxiety in mid-September, when our whole office is uprooted from its lovely downtown locale, to ugly 801 North Jordan (where IUPD lives).

I'll kind of miss my own real office with its real walls and real (locking!) door and its real window that looks out into the main office (when the miniblinds are open) and its real individual lightswitch.

It'd be nice to get a new computer when we go over there, but egads! The stuff that they'd have to transfer!

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Right now, the MEGALAB that currently dominates half the floor is insinuating its tentacles rather aggressively into the space I've been using. So tomorrow, I'm going to move what was MY stuff into Thing1's lab space and let them have it.

Then I'll sit at the same desk I've been sitting at, (I hope with this computer - if Thing1 lets me keep it 'til he leaves at the New Year) and squeezing into the benchspace of the gal I'm supposed to be replacing. So I suppose I'll inherit her stuff and her space. . . but not for another 3 weeks.

/cue Paul Simon's Homeless

[frostbyte.livejournal.com]

I don't know how it works there, but up here the computers have a State Property sticker on them, which means exactly that. The computer you use would be assigned to that department, which means your department chair has discretionary power over where each computer is allocated. In other words, you should be able to bring it to your new office space with you.

Your mileage may vary, but I'd have a chat with your chair about it. ;-)

[bramey.livejournal.com]

Around here, it's a matter of which grant was used to purchase it. Had this been bought on the start-up money, I'd be able to keep it because it belongs to the department.

I am unfortunate in this case, because the computer was purchased on an outside grant, which means that Thing1 takes it with him.

:-(

I'll just have to start budgeting for a new one of my own. . . or stop surfing at work. *shiver*