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| Monday, November 9th, 2009 | | 12:02 pm |
| | Sunday, November 8th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Saturday, November 7th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Friday, November 6th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Thursday, November 5th, 2009 | | 2:52 pm |
why i'm so late this time.
I'm procrastinating. What a perfect time to write something on lj. So far, only one (out of six, maybe soon seven?) of my research team got his googlewave invite and is now on the service... but I think I need at least a few more online before we can start using it as a tool. I need to write my bi-monthly report, and it's already two months late, and actually I should already be processing the data for the next report. I'm on my way to a good rough draft, though, which is due by COB Friday. And the team are at work collecting important bits of important data and news reports to go into the report as well. It's our first go at this, so there were bound to be delays. It still bothers me though. Previously, these reports were written by one person, subjected to a peer review, and then translated into Bahasa Indonesia. That one person is advising us, but he is not longer the writer. Technically, my whole team should be writing collectively these reports (hence the need for google wave), but in the end, I am now the new one person who writes these reports. My experiment at a collective writing exercise was too soon, this is one big reason for the lateness of this edition. The other reason is that it is my first time writing it as well. Again, it was to be expected, but disappointing nonetheless. At least now, after consulting with my boss, who is the former writer of these reports, I have a good outline, and the data is good enough to produce the rough draft. Oooh, looks like another on my team got her wave account. That makes two! I'll see if I can get the 3 of us on a wave, and start chatting about the features and how to use it with them. Current Mood:  goodCurrent Music: Matmos, all songs, on shuffle | | 12:01 pm |
| | Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 | | 3:38 pm |
Feeling Good, Falling Behind
A strange and good feeling has been developing over the past few weeks, and I've really been noticing it this week. The main thing: things are great! Feeling good, loving my new job in Aceh, relationship with Dez going just wonderfully. Overall in a really good place. We are in Jakarta for a few days this week, and we were pining away for it ever since we got back to Banda Aceh after Lebaran, but now that we're here, I'm realizing that Banda Aceh really isn't so bad. We both noticed right away when we got back to Jakarta yesterday afternoon: the air in Banda is so much cleaner, and the 3G network is much better in Banda Aceh too. Even the new airport in Banda is better than Jakarta's! No traffic jams in Banda, easier to get together with friends, or have meetings out of the office. The one thing that is unequivocally better in Jakarta is the food!!!! So we're enjoying our fill of it now. Also, our apartment is here, and we both love it... and we have a TV here with a blu ray player. But this week I'm not really watching it because... All the good news doesn't accord though with the fact that my productivity is pretty bad. It's not at the all time low that I reached roughly at this time last year, but I have deadlines at my new job, and I'm not meeting them. Great work, always interesting, and a terrific staff... but can't get the tasks done! I'm struggling right now with our bi-monthly Aceh peace monitoring update, which should have been PUBLISHED before the end of October, and it's hardly in a rough draft form now. I'm definitely working on it, a LOT, but going so slow! Apart from that, I have peer review papers to read, book chapters to write, dissertation outline due before the end of the year, and a long list of excellent project ideas that I couldn't possibly start now with my to-do list currently in such bad shape. ...OK back to work, wish me not just progress but faster progress plzkthxbye Current Mood: pleasedCurrent Music: ipod on shuffle | | Sunday, November 1st, 2009 | | 10:44 am |
Not Feeling Halloweeny
It's weird reading everyone's Halloween tweets, status updates, and lj-entries and seeing their uploaded pictures while Dez and I are here in Aceh. We didn't do anything. To be fair, there was a Halloween party for the ex-pat community on Friday night. I heard it was big, like 50 people came or something, and most people dressed up. Reassuring to the ex-pats that members of their tribe still exist in Aceh, if greatly reduced at this point. But for me, I was just totally exhausted on Friday night. Went to bed at 9pm, and I bet their party wasn't even raging by then. Halloween always invites consternation from Indonesia's Islamists who exhort Indonesians not to celebrate it because it's a western heathen event. Part of me, a small part of me to be sure, was a little bit worried that the shariah police might raid the ex-pat event precisely to make an example of our craven traditions. That didn't happen to my friends who went to the party, though, thank goodness. I guess I'm just feeling disconnected from it. And it's probably not only because I'm in Aceh... last year, in Cambridge, I was totally non-plussed about buying candy and giving it out to kids (I did, though, and the kids were cute. And I love Butterfingers.). I didn't dress up or anything. Guess I'm just a curmudgeon. Current Mood:  relaxedCurrent Music: Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream | | Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | | 12:45 pm |
Livejournal Updates, Present and Past
It's funny to see that the twitter forwarding service to my livejournal works sometimes and doesn't work other times. I know the forwarding service has server management problems, and budget problems... and I can't find another service who does it, so no big deal I guess. The media clearly do not mix well... almost NOBODY comments on the tweets that get posted to livejournal (except ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) padpedpladuk ... thanks Wayne!). But for the friends who still use livejournal, it at least lets them know I'm still online, having a life, making updates in 140 characters or less. In other livejournal news, it's always a disappointment to learn that so-called friends try to use my livejournal against me. If I put it up on livejournal, it means I'm not ashamed, and there is very little you can do to hold it against me, because I probably won't deny whatever it is I wrote. I've kept this livejournal off and on since late 2001... by now it's a lengthy, if patchy, documentation of the past eight years of my life. I went through many phases from my late 20s into my mid 30s, as anyone does. Like Madonna (LOL!), I'm not sorry, and people who try to use my past against me are really only struggling with their own shit. If I'm being evasive (a typically Indonesian thing to do, it seems), it's because I'm not making this a friends-only post. Maybe I'll get around to some friends-only detail in a future post... Finally, does anyone know what happened to jameth??? Current Mood: cheerfulCurrent Music: "Frodo's Burden" - Necromancer/Supergenius - Sauron Speaks | | Monday, October 19th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Friday, October 16th, 2009 | | 12:02 pm |
| | Thursday, October 15th, 2009 | | 12:02 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 | | 12:10 pm |
| | Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 | | 12:01 pm |
| | Sunday, October 11th, 2009 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Saturday, October 10th, 2009 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Friday, October 9th, 2009 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 | | 12:00 pm |
| | Monday, October 5th, 2009 | | 12:06 pm |
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