So, hmm. Update on my life...
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stilldeepwater and emjayne. Hope they rocked!
Have not yet returned the formermindrobber's phone call. Bad friend! Bad!
Still feel like I'm on a learning curve at work, but things do seem to be improving. Today I started updating our style guide. Mostly this consisted of merging the two existing style guides, which are obviously descended from the same original document but which now feature different (and sometimes contradictory) information. Felt good to do something concrete because I sometimes feel like I'm swimming in a morass of half-done things. Also made some progress on chasing down a gynaecologist to discuss this story and returned my overdue books to the library and talked to my clinical team about the outline -- we didn't get all the way through, and they changed a lot of stuff, but it's progress.
Speaking of the link above, question for the women out there: at what age did you learn about pelvic exams, Pap smears, and the like? How often were you told you needed to get them? I'm looking back on my own adolescence and I can't remember anyone mentioning a damn thing about it. If it had been anyone I guess it would've been my family doctor (who was also my mother's doctor so, y'know, ew).
The woman I share an office with is really great but really fragile at times. Things that would slide right off me bother her deeply (and, OK, vice versa). Example this afternoon -- she's been working on a story based on a not very good article, it's starting to come apart at the seams a little, the conversations she's been having with the boss reflected that, and she got very upset where I would've been all, well, damn, life sucks. (Or not written the article in the first place if I felt strongly that it was no good.) But I introduced her to Ananova's Quirkies feed which I think has done her good (that or created a monster. Or both). In any case, I think we are all getting there. Our third officemate has been spending most of the week at home writing furiously, which has given us both a little more space.
papersky has an excellent rant about trains.
At some point I will post a nice long post about all the books I've been reading, but not tonight. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
stilldeepwater and emjayne. Hope they rocked!Have not yet returned the former
mindrobber's phone call. Bad friend! Bad!Still feel like I'm on a learning curve at work, but things do seem to be improving. Today I started updating our style guide. Mostly this consisted of merging the two existing style guides, which are obviously descended from the same original document but which now feature different (and sometimes contradictory) information. Felt good to do something concrete because I sometimes feel like I'm swimming in a morass of half-done things. Also made some progress on chasing down a gynaecologist to discuss this story and returned my overdue books to the library and talked to my clinical team about the outline -- we didn't get all the way through, and they changed a lot of stuff, but it's progress.
Speaking of the link above, question for the women out there: at what age did you learn about pelvic exams, Pap smears, and the like? How often were you told you needed to get them? I'm looking back on my own adolescence and I can't remember anyone mentioning a damn thing about it. If it had been anyone I guess it would've been my family doctor (who was also my mother's doctor so, y'know, ew).
The woman I share an office with is really great but really fragile at times. Things that would slide right off me bother her deeply (and, OK, vice versa). Example this afternoon -- she's been working on a story based on a not very good article, it's starting to come apart at the seams a little, the conversations she's been having with the boss reflected that, and she got very upset where I would've been all, well, damn, life sucks. (Or not written the article in the first place if I felt strongly that it was no good.) But I introduced her to Ananova's Quirkies feed which I think has done her good (that or created a monster. Or both). In any case, I think we are all getting there. Our third officemate has been spending most of the week at home writing furiously, which has given us both a little more space.
papersky has an excellent rant about trains.At some point I will post a nice long post about all the books I've been reading, but not tonight. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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Date: 2004-10-09 04:05 pm (UTC)I learned about them from one of those puberty books, probably as a young teenager. I started getting them at age 18 (when I decided to become sexually active) and have had one every year since then.