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 Extroversion:
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I would say I have medium introversion, but I guess it’s similar enough to medium extroversion.
I posted this with just the bad. Then I felt like it was unbalanced, so I’m tacking on a good to help tip the scale on this lovely Friday. Here it is:
Yesterday, on my drive to and from work, I needed my sunglasses!
Now, onto the bad.
My friend, who works at a different agency from me, was sharing some ideas that her agency uses which helps track workload using activity-based costing. Basically, employees have to report on everything they work on throughout the day, meaning charge their hours to certain projects, and the systems can then take that information and forecast their workforce needs. I told her, that’s a great idea. Unfortunately, I believe my agency deliberately doesn’t want to do anything like activity-based costing. How else would they hide all the funds for the luxury spending? For example, the nine new printers we just got yesterday? It’s just like how they refuse to have any meaningful performance measures or targets. So that’s why they are so “selective” about who they hire for budget jobs – must not hire anyone who may question the spending.
It’s so sketchy in the government and I guess it should come as no surprise, but I can’t help but be disappointed. FDA I’m pretty sure, has probably long been in bed with the pharmaceutical companies, as that last snafu with Vioxx really showed. I would like to hope NIH is better about it – but every few months or so, there’s an article in the Washington Post about certain scientists getting kickbacks. They always let the scientist resign (if even that) and never punish them.
Take a look at USDA. They had only a 90% confidence level that meat that entered the food market was free of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease). It’s so unacceptable considering the effects of consuming tainted meat, but the beef industry lobbied so heavily for less testing. If you listen to the appropriations hearings, it feels like like they’re protecting the industries, not the consumers. This is all the big stuff. Then you get to the day-to-day issues I come across. The waste (nine printers?! for what?? we’re on a continuing resolution here, that means Congress hasn’t passed any bill giving you any money yet. That means you scrimp and save, not go out and shop til you drop!), the incompetence of the management (drunk bosses), and whole slew of other things I’m too tired to type out.
The thing about my job is, you have to be able to bs with the best of them, talk like you mean it, act like the future of western civilization hinges on the balance of it, and really, in the end, churn out nada. It’s sort of an art, like a dance. So I get pulled into 3 meetings and 1 meeting in preparation for a meeting today. Any concrete takeaways? No. Average meeting duration? 1.5 hours. Purpose? To plan and discuss upcoming very important projects which happen to be about planning to conduct analysis of the workforce. Favorite words: strategic thinking, planning, analyzing. Words to be avoided: measure, accountability, implement
I love my job. I don’t even know what to put on my resume.
Now I remember why I only go for haircuts about once a year. It’s because half my hair gets yanked, pulled, and snagged right off my scalp! It takes about a year for me to recuperate and sort of forget about the painful ordeal enough to go back for more. I like my hair lady though. She’s Taiwanese, loud, straightforward, and speedy (that’s where the hair pulling part comes in). I like going to her because all I need to say is how many inches (3 this time), layered, bangs or no bangs and the rest is up to her.
I would’ve been perfectly content to stay home this Superbowl Sunday, but instead, left the house for dimsum. How can you pass up dimsum right? To sum up my opinion: Hollywood East was very crowded and the food was mediocre. They did make one dish very good though, the sweet warm tofu dessert, dou-fu-hua (in Mandarin). Not too sweet, not too gingery. Still, I wouldn’t choose to go back just for that because I’ve had better overall dimsum elsewhere.
Those little scallop shell things weren’t very good by the way. Too mayonaisey. The egg custard things were too coconutty, and I was never a big fan of that stuff anyway.
After that, drove around and saw this very unusual house. It looks like a gnome house or something, maybe made of clay? Even the door is a short little arched wooden door. Kinda’ neat and sturdy looking. Just wish I could go in to take a gander at what it looks like on the inside because the outside looks like it was fashioned out of Play-Doh. I’m guessing the inhabitants are eccentric engineers or architects. Or maybe, judging by the Prius, they are granola-type people with good taste in colors. Love it! Pink goes with everything and is never out of style!
I’ve been vindicated! The other day I was cooking a batch of mixed beans in a pressure cooker. The pot EXPLODED! Half-cooked beans all over the kitchen! Besides the fact that it gave me such a scare, it took me about 4 hours to clean up the mess and the walls are still slightly stained with the splash marks. I thought I must’ve misaligned the lid with the pot or something but another lady said she experienced the same thing before. She said it happens because the beans jump a bit when they’re in the pot and it clogs up the steam escape valve and then the pressure and then kah-blooie! So, from now on, when it comes to bean-cooking, I’m going traditional, slowly simmered.
I’ve been wanting to try the sandwich shop called Booeymonger (because of its funny name) ever since I passed by it back in the days when I worked in DC. It was right by my bus stop, but I never stopped in because I figured, I’m there everyday, I can go whenever I want. Which happened to be never I suppose. Finally tried it today with Rosa and it was a good sandwich. Nothing out of the ordinary though. The crispy potato wedges were good too. Afterwards, we went shopping up and down the street. Geez I had no idea the kinds of swanky shops tucked in that area (LV, Bvlgari, etc.). I got 2 pairs of socks at TJ Maxx. On a budget here. Oh and I picked up an Express paper at the metro station. How I miss doing the crosswords and Sudokus.
On another note, I just got my yogurt maker and made my second batch of fresh yogurt. It’s very good and so worth the $20. All you need is fresh milk, powdered milk, and plain yogurt. Dissolve the powdered milk in warm milk and stir in a few spoonfuls of plain yogurt, mix it all up. Pour it into the contraption and it keeps the mixture warm enough so that the bacteria can multiply. It works overnight and after a few hours in the fridge, you get fresh yogurt! You can control the tartness and viscosity by adjusting the incubation period and amount of powdered milk you add.
“On Gobbler’s Knob I see no shadow today.
I predict that early spring is on the way.”
That’s what Phil says. It sleeted and snowed today, but I guess that doesn’t mean anything. He may very well be right. This year, I’m not sure what I’d prefer since I don’t normally like cold weather. But the Winter has been so mild, I feel like we didn’t get much of it, so I’m torn! Not that my preferences matter in this case.
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