The good, the bad, and....
Apr. 22nd, 2004 02:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwendolyngraceThe Good:
FictionAlley has been named one of the nominees for the Webby Award in Communities!
I'm very impressed after reading the vetting process it takes to even be nominated.
ETA: You can register at the site and vote for People's Choice! Ironically, we're up against LiveJournal, so there's no way we'll win, but it would be great if people left comments and if we at least didn't come in last. Plug! Plug! Plug! W00T to us.
The Bad:
I'm having a real bitch of a time trying to write my self-evaluation for work. Gah. Hate it. Hard enough when I want to stay in a job; it's even harder when I'm 99% certain that I'm leaving it, but I don't want to screw myself over for the next two months....
The Ugly:
My coworkers could not identify the word "Latvian." They didn't even know how to spell it, much less did they realize that yes, it's a real language, from a real place. They all looked at me like I was nuts when I told them, "Latvia. L-a-t-v-i-a. It's in Eastern Europe, north of Lithuania." I had to spell it for them - Tina, who took the call (it was someone looking for a translator), wrote it down as "Laffian."
Le grand sigh. Inside two minutes, I had pulled up the profile on it from Lonely Planet and could show them the map, the population, and sundry other details.
You know, I hang out with people (Joel, Don, Tofi, etc.) who are so smart (that's clever, you non-Yanks), they make me feel stupid. But then I look around me at work and realize: Yup, you really are waaay above average, kid.
Yeesh.
FictionAlley has been named one of the nominees for the Webby Award in Communities!
I'm very impressed after reading the vetting process it takes to even be nominated.
ETA: You can register at the site and vote for People's Choice! Ironically, we're up against LiveJournal, so there's no way we'll win, but it would be great if people left comments and if we at least didn't come in last. Plug! Plug! Plug! W00T to us.
The Bad:
I'm having a real bitch of a time trying to write my self-evaluation for work. Gah. Hate it. Hard enough when I want to stay in a job; it's even harder when I'm 99% certain that I'm leaving it, but I don't want to screw myself over for the next two months....
The Ugly:
My coworkers could not identify the word "Latvian." They didn't even know how to spell it, much less did they realize that yes, it's a real language, from a real place. They all looked at me like I was nuts when I told them, "Latvia. L-a-t-v-i-a. It's in Eastern Europe, north of Lithuania." I had to spell it for them - Tina, who took the call (it was someone looking for a translator), wrote it down as "Laffian."
Le grand sigh. Inside two minutes, I had pulled up the profile on it from Lonely Planet and could show them the map, the population, and sundry other details.
You know, I hang out with people (Joel, Don, Tofi, etc.) who are so smart (that's clever, you non-Yanks), they make me feel stupid. But then I look around me at work and realize: Yup, you really are waaay above average, kid.
Yeesh.
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*Way* above average, babe, trust me.
Date: 2004-04-22 07:37 pm (UTC)Yup. You are. And I know exactly what you mean about the people around you. When I worked in the bookshop I encountered that feeling of "what do you mean you don't know/understand ____." Some of it was some of the kids were high school/college and just hadn't done/experienced/lived it yet. Time helps some of it, but sometimes you get tired of no one else grokking anything you say.