Fair?

[thessalian]

There's more to gripe about as regards work, but I'm getting a little sick of sitting here and grumbling how it's not fair. I mean, it's not fair, but that doesn't mean I have to bore people about it. Life's not fair, so I really ought to just suck it up and cope. Though admittedly, it does gall me how my predecessor's mistakes (like forgetting to give copy editing the hard copy of a paper that was accepted for publication in June, leaving it to sit in my file cabinets for the last eight months because I didn't know it was there) are accepted with a "no big deal" shrug. I know she's gone and everything, but at least it would have been a balm for my battered sense of self-worth to see Michael being marginally annoyed at someone other than me. But he wasn't, so I will just have to soldier on. For one thing, I desperately need this job.

Anyway, that's enough griping. I did a great deal of very hard, very good work today. Tonight I can go home, possibly cook dinner, maybe faff about with Sims 2 (that's if Mod the Sims 2's server will actually decide to work for a change) and definitely get some sleep. Gah. Knackered.

Oh, and I finished Furnace. As I was saying to dodgyhoodoo yesterday, I have a hard time empathising with characters who are ignoring the big scary problems in the hopes that they'll just go away, and that was my initial problem with the story as a whole. When the protagonist actually started doing something, instead of just having things happen to him, I got more interested. So another book bites the dust and it was more enjoyable than I thought it would be mid-way through. I should probably finish Neutron Star or Beowulf at least before I start in on anything else.

And there was a luciusmarwood column waiting for me when I checked up this afternoon. Yay! So to dodgyhoodoo and nadriel at the very least, I point out the icon. I really do have to make that text more legibile.