Just One Thing! (11 July 2016)

[syntaxofthings]

It's challenge time!

Comment with Just One Thing you've accomplished in the last 24 hours or so. It doesn't have to be a hard thing, or even a thing that you think is particularly awesome. Just a thing that you did.

Feel free to share more than one thing if you're feeling particularly accomplished!

Extra credit: find someone in the comments and give them props for what they achieved!

Nothing is too big, too small, too strange or too cryptic. And in case you'd rather do this in private, anonymous comments are screened. I will only unscreen if you ask me to.

Go!

Comments

[azurelunatic]

Had an utter, abject, weeping "I can't do this" meltdown. Figured out what had gone wrong, where, and why. Told the party closest to me in the situation what my limits were, and figured out how to redistribute.

And we're okay. We're okay.

[omnipotent]

*gentle hugs*

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[cosmolinguist]

<3

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[sathari]

Oof, that's hard stuff. Glad you're okay!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[fred_mouse]

Sorry to hear about the dreadful, good to hear the okay at the end.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[silveradept]

You being okay is very important. Good for that. I also hope the situation precipitating that problem goes away soon.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

Sometimes I feel as though I could not have picked a better crew to navigate the situation with if I'd tried for one intentionally. In the Silk Ring model of crisis, I'm second ring. In some ways, I'm "just" a person helping support someone in center ring, and this was redistributing tasks between second/third ring folks.

So the situation will take as long as it takes the person in center ring to be entirely safe and recovered from their Ordeal.

I do hope, however, that the immediate crisis is over soon, though true recovery will take much longer.

[cosmolinguist]

Went to my first #BlackLivesMatter event.

Helped a friend with childcare and housework so she could visit wife+new baby at the hospital.

[omnipotent]

As an African-American, thank you for listening.

[cosmolinguist]

It seems the very, very least I can do. <3

[nanila]

Looked after my family, with the washing and the cooking and the cuddling.

Also, worked.

[cosmolinguist]

I hope all your work brings you satisfaction.

[sathari]

Wrote! Did worldbuilding AND actual storying!

Exercised!

Grocery shopped!

[azurelunatic]

Hooray!

I'm catching up with exercise today.

[lilysea]

Booked a medical advocate to come to a medical appointment in a few weeks that was giving me anxiety attacks.

Went grocery shopping, even though I'd had an anxiety attack for most of the day.

Cuddled cats.

[azurelunatic]

Hooray!

[fred_mouse]

Finished a read through and comment on a document (draft telephone questionnaire) and returned it to the student *in one sitting*.

*flop*

[azurelunatic]

Oof, that is major! Wow!

(I used to do telephone questionnaires on the phone goon end of things, so I deeply appreciate a well-crafted one.)

[fred_mouse]

I worked my way through much of uni doing market research - I think by the end of it I'd worked for 4 companies, and one boss!

It is really interesting, working on the second draft, where I start to fall into the cadences of the questionnaires that are probably as familiar to you as they are me. ["... you'll get people who will say 'oh, four or five times a day'. You need a follow up phrasing, such as 'which would be more common, four times a day, or five times a day.." or '..and here, you'll need to make the question more specific. Actually, you might be better to split this into two questions. Rather than 'does this happen when juggling or unicycling*', ask "does x happen when you are juggling? And what about when unicycling, does it happen then?]

* these are my new favourite euphemisms for anything we are researching.

[azurelunatic]

Oh yes. Immensely familiar.

And juggling + unicycling are the best euphemisms.

[fred_mouse]

"Is your baby juggling yet?" "At what age are you intending to introduce unicycling to your infant" "Do other people in your family unicycle?" "Are you a first in family juggler?"

... and so on. Keeps me well amused through middle of the night insomnia.

[silveradept]

I made an important phone call without running away from it.

I also have a much better understanding of how things work, I think, and realize how much more work there is to go.

[azurelunatic]

Good luck.