Another weekend spent.
May. 23rd, 2005 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradept'Twas good, actually. Went back to Chicago-land with a friend to help one of my sister's co-workers celebrate a birthday (I think.) We were along for the companionship and the potential drinks. It was nice just talking to all the people there - and apparently my social skills were impressive enough for those who knew me - they noticed that I was being sociable for once. It turned out well. The weekends keep coming fast and furious, though - I think I'm booked for both next weekend and the weekend after for various celebrations. Which is fine - I don't mind going out and being social - it's something I really need to do more of. And my road trips are infintely cooler than these. They should give their production budget to me, instead.
Today, I filled in as a substitute for a co-worker - so there was some sketching at the desk. Some good things turned out, including Ms. Mudd and her daughter. Some really bad things turned out, too. We'll not mention those. Either way, it could be considered a productive day, sort of, when it comes to my quest to make art that doesn't suck.
The weather was grey and cool, so I started out in shorts and finished the day in shorts with a little drizzle. Quite comfortable, actually.
Rejoice! For it's official - The natives can go back to Beantown. This ranks right up with the orientation-flipping stem-cell implantation and the potential walking machine destroyer. It's not quite as good as the eight glasses of water incident, or Dimes Must Die.
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mightysemprini's birthday today, so go harass him.
In addition, although it's raining out, be reminded that spring is upon us. Thus, love is in the air. Of course, depending on which part of the multiverse we're in, this may not always hold true. For some of us, we must just be in the wrong parallel universe.
Over the weekend, I had fun. In a Dissonance sort of way, by the end of the weekend I was a little down - mostly over reflections on my life so far. A few events conspired during the weekend to draw an awareness I don't like thinking about to the forefront for a bit. Combined with a few of my nagging stresses it shifted my mood a little bit. This is a two tessens and a frying pan problem, really, and I worked through as best as I could. It's just internalizing the stuff, that's all - seeing how others see what I've done, and taking pride in what accomplishments I do have. Even if a lot of them don't produce obvious, tangible, and spectacular results, they're still cool things and advantages and accomplishments. The consensus reached in talking it out was that it's a time-based issue: Once I make it to the point where instead of sucking up money for college, I'm in a career that I like and am making some money with, some of my self-worth issues will go away. Both my friend and I joked that while having a girlfriend solves some self-esteem issues, it often produces other ones. Perhaps it's not quite a zero-sum game, but there are different things around.
In other self-interesting news, at least the first of the Fushigi Yugi novels is being translated and brought to America. We await the finished product. We'll see how it turns out, as Japanese as a language is a bit dense in meaning, and the subtleties don't often translate across to English well. The difference between good translation and excellent translation is in conveying the subtleties.
Lastly, at least for now (you see what happens when I go away for a weekend?) a prospectus on a new way of organizing people. Ortegrity appears to be a method of utilizing the concept of synergy as the base for human relations, with a heterarchical base (no bosses or underlings) being punctuated by occasional hierarchies formed when members of the heterarchy want to accomplish a task. Those hierarchies may contain several heterarchies nested within themselves which may contain several hierarchies... a sufficiently sized organization according to these principles will have the Infinite Regressive. Rewards are divided according to work put into the project, either by contributing tools or action to the project. The system makes a reasonable amount of sense, and could work effectively at small levels, at least. There would have to be a bit more reading involved if I wanted to get fully immersed in the concept, as there are some outside processes not explained fully in even the seventy page PDF attached to the prospectus's website. Still, if the synergy power is even half what they claim, then it would be interesting to see it in action. Especially with one of the vital claims being that everyone in the heterarchy must work to find a solution that allows everyone to gain from the action to be taken.
So that's the brain candy for tonight, or something. Work tomorrow requires that I go to bed soon.
Today, I filled in as a substitute for a co-worker - so there was some sketching at the desk. Some good things turned out, including Ms. Mudd and her daughter. Some really bad things turned out, too. We'll not mention those. Either way, it could be considered a productive day, sort of, when it comes to my quest to make art that doesn't suck.
The weather was grey and cool, so I started out in shorts and finished the day in shorts with a little drizzle. Quite comfortable, actually.
Rejoice! For it's official - The natives can go back to Beantown. This ranks right up with the orientation-flipping stem-cell implantation and the potential walking machine destroyer. It's not quite as good as the eight glasses of water incident, or Dimes Must Die.
It's
mightysemprini's birthday today, so go harass him. In addition, although it's raining out, be reminded that spring is upon us. Thus, love is in the air. Of course, depending on which part of the multiverse we're in, this may not always hold true. For some of us, we must just be in the wrong parallel universe.
Over the weekend, I had fun. In a Dissonance sort of way, by the end of the weekend I was a little down - mostly over reflections on my life so far. A few events conspired during the weekend to draw an awareness I don't like thinking about to the forefront for a bit. Combined with a few of my nagging stresses it shifted my mood a little bit. This is a two tessens and a frying pan problem, really, and I worked through as best as I could. It's just internalizing the stuff, that's all - seeing how others see what I've done, and taking pride in what accomplishments I do have. Even if a lot of them don't produce obvious, tangible, and spectacular results, they're still cool things and advantages and accomplishments. The consensus reached in talking it out was that it's a time-based issue: Once I make it to the point where instead of sucking up money for college, I'm in a career that I like and am making some money with, some of my self-worth issues will go away. Both my friend and I joked that while having a girlfriend solves some self-esteem issues, it often produces other ones. Perhaps it's not quite a zero-sum game, but there are different things around.
In other self-interesting news, at least the first of the Fushigi Yugi novels is being translated and brought to America. We await the finished product. We'll see how it turns out, as Japanese as a language is a bit dense in meaning, and the subtleties don't often translate across to English well. The difference between good translation and excellent translation is in conveying the subtleties.
Lastly, at least for now (you see what happens when I go away for a weekend?) a prospectus on a new way of organizing people. Ortegrity appears to be a method of utilizing the concept of synergy as the base for human relations, with a heterarchical base (no bosses or underlings) being punctuated by occasional hierarchies formed when members of the heterarchy want to accomplish a task. Those hierarchies may contain several heterarchies nested within themselves which may contain several hierarchies... a sufficiently sized organization according to these principles will have the Infinite Regressive. Rewards are divided according to work put into the project, either by contributing tools or action to the project. The system makes a reasonable amount of sense, and could work effectively at small levels, at least. There would have to be a bit more reading involved if I wanted to get fully immersed in the concept, as there are some outside processes not explained fully in even the seventy page PDF attached to the prospectus's website. Still, if the synergy power is even half what they claim, then it would be interesting to see it in action. Especially with one of the vital claims being that everyone in the heterarchy must work to find a solution that allows everyone to gain from the action to be taken.
So that's the brain candy for tonight, or something. Work tomorrow requires that I go to bed soon.
