why i'm unable to focus on my work today
hi there. after posting lots of silly links to entertain catfoo(d) at her new summer job in a sad sad cube-land, i attempted to do some work.
my attempts were very solid ones. i got some new code posted for a couple of upcoming games, i answered a few emails, i set up a few meetings, i went to a meeting where i learned how to prepare code for copywrite protection...
and then i got a phone call from the food network!
and now i'm sitting at my desk shaking because i'm so so so so so so so so so excited...
it looks like they liked us enough to call back and learn more about who we are! one small battle... one step closer... but now i'm getting nervous.
on one hand, i at least feel a little better than i did a few days ago because i got to talk to them about more of our other interests -- stuff that we do, like running and music -- that didn't really get to fit into our 5 minutes. i hope i was eloquent and interesting... i hope i made them want to learn more!
i guess the only thing i forgot to mention was my crazy graduate school research, but thats OK since i've not had time to think about wearables much lately, anyways...
the few people who got to see our submissions tape all said they loved it, but i'm very hard on my work and the crazy deadline drama that i wrote about on monday made me submit something i wasn't 100% satisfied with. actually, ha -- my boss today just told me i should redo it as a reggae-version and resubmit it. we were seriously laughing about that over IM when i got the call! what luck is that?
man oh man i can't think now. all sorts of things keep running through my head... like... are they going to google me? are they going to find this blog? will they like my sense of humor? how can i telepathically explain to them how SO SO SO wonderfully excited we would be to win this contest? how much it would mean to us? how much fun it would be to bring our families together for this? how much it would help us financially -- so that we can do things like save for a house or maybe open a restaurant, instead of putting what little dollars we have towards getting married?
we both work so hard... but i'm sure all the entrants do!
sigh.
i guess i just need to sit patiently and wait now. deep breath. calm thoughts. i hope this blog post doesn't jinx our chances. (i seem to be way more superstitious lately about this than i've ever been about anything!)
i've also been so pre-occupied with thinking about how i could have done things better that i totally forgot to tell all you loyal blog readers that i have a race on sunday! eek! a half-marathon!
i think it's even on the same day that my sisters compete in their very first triathlon, out in western MA!
i'm so happy and excited for them. i'm going to send them happy triathlon vibes all weekend in the moments i'm not being nervous about this whole contest. maybe thinking about how great they'll do will help me calm down and actually get some work done this afternoon.
:)
or maybe not.
my attempts were very solid ones. i got some new code posted for a couple of upcoming games, i answered a few emails, i set up a few meetings, i went to a meeting where i learned how to prepare code for copywrite protection...
and then i got a phone call from the food network!
and now i'm sitting at my desk shaking because i'm so so so so so so so so so excited...
it looks like they liked us enough to call back and learn more about who we are! one small battle... one step closer... but now i'm getting nervous.
on one hand, i at least feel a little better than i did a few days ago because i got to talk to them about more of our other interests -- stuff that we do, like running and music -- that didn't really get to fit into our 5 minutes. i hope i was eloquent and interesting... i hope i made them want to learn more!
i guess the only thing i forgot to mention was my crazy graduate school research, but thats OK since i've not had time to think about wearables much lately, anyways...
the few people who got to see our submissions tape all said they loved it, but i'm very hard on my work and the crazy deadline drama that i wrote about on monday made me submit something i wasn't 100% satisfied with. actually, ha -- my boss today just told me i should redo it as a reggae-version and resubmit it. we were seriously laughing about that over IM when i got the call! what luck is that?
man oh man i can't think now. all sorts of things keep running through my head... like... are they going to google me? are they going to find this blog? will they like my sense of humor? how can i telepathically explain to them how SO SO SO wonderfully excited we would be to win this contest? how much it would mean to us? how much fun it would be to bring our families together for this? how much it would help us financially -- so that we can do things like save for a house or maybe open a restaurant, instead of putting what little dollars we have towards getting married?
we both work so hard... but i'm sure all the entrants do!
sigh.
i guess i just need to sit patiently and wait now. deep breath. calm thoughts. i hope this blog post doesn't jinx our chances. (i seem to be way more superstitious lately about this than i've ever been about anything!)
i've also been so pre-occupied with thinking about how i could have done things better that i totally forgot to tell all you loyal blog readers that i have a race on sunday! eek! a half-marathon!
i think it's even on the same day that my sisters compete in their very first triathlon, out in western MA!
i'm so happy and excited for them. i'm going to send them happy triathlon vibes all weekend in the moments i'm not being nervous about this whole contest. maybe thinking about how great they'll do will help me calm down and actually get some work done this afternoon.
:)
or maybe not.
posted by megan at
3:13:00 PM
2 Comments:
how exciting? did you ask them how many people they call?
i totally just walked into the wrong cube. luckily, it was an empty cube. yesterday, i kept walking into a different wrong cube, but that one was occupied so i kept having to apologize since i didn't notice until i was basically inside his cube.
oh and did you bitch them out for changing the due date?
some of these "word verification" things are really hard.
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