getting better / less fantastic
Not a whole lot to update you on today, except to reaffirm that even though I otherwise should have stayed home from work yesterday, it's definitely for the best that I came in, because if I hadn't, critical tasks would have gone uncompleted and created a shitstorm clusterfuck for both myself and others today.
I feel a whole lot better today, by the way. Far less congested, no more sinus headache. The latter seems to have been confined just to yesterday. This hasn't even developed into a cough -- yet, *knock wood*. Scott told me this morning how helpful a Neti Pot can be. That's been his experience; "nasal irrigation" from one nostril to the next frankly horrifies me. I suppose if it gets bad enough I might try it one day, but dealing with it just one day yesterday was something I could live with.
Anyway, when I was telling Shobhit after work yesterday about why it was best that I did come in yesterday, he at first asked me something that confused me: "How many deliveries did you have today?" Huh? "I don't deal with deliveries," I said, thinking he was talking about literal deliveries at our stores. Then he said, "How many deliverables?" I realized then that he was using a kind of corporate-speak from his Microsoft days, which does not exist at PCC and never has. I literally have never heard a single person use that sort of corporate jargon at my office. We might talke about "workload" or "tasks," but never "deliverables." I guess that might be one counter-argument against the perception of the "corporate-ization" of PCC. (That and the fact that this year's evaluation form is the hippie-dippiest we've ever seen: "Trusts in the positive intentions of others" -- really?)
My weight was slightly up from yesterday this morning and I am very irritated by that. I had that stupid stuff put on my teeth at the cleaning yesterday morning that precluded eating anything at all until lunchtime, so I snacked far less than normal at work. But then when I got home, I had a can of Amy's "No Chicken Noodle" soup with a bunch of Annie's Bunny Crackers; a small portion of the pizza Shobhit made for himself; a couple bites of chocolate; and tea with four biscuit cookies to dip in it. This time I can probably blame all the stuff I shoved into my pie hole after work.
Funnily enough, when I was in the kitchen yesterday afternoon and was in the way of Claudia getting into the compost bin, she said, "Excuse me skinny." I guess I'm still perceived as thin, so that works!
I didn't really watch anything last night -- I even bagged out on my plan to see The Girl In the Spider's Web, because I wanted to be able to get into bed early and not write a movie review. The other reviews for that movie were pretty mixed anyway, with a MetaScore of 43, which means I wasn't really missing anything.
I'm a little bummed that Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is getting such tepid reviews itself; I wasn't hugely impressed with the first one but the trailer to the new one made it feel like the series could get better as it goes along. Maybe not? It doesn't really help that it stars Johnny Depp and he's increasingly known to be a crazy douche. But whatever, I'll still go see it, and I have the original Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them from Netflix on DVD now, to watch either tonight or tomorrow morning -- hopefully tonight, given tomorrow's "Nicholas Cage-athon" for Claudia's birthday includes four movies (which I don't have to watch all of, I realize).
My experience with the first Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them was a unique one, in that I drank a bit too much before the show the first time I took myself to see it -- a fatally late 9:45 pm showing at the then-Sundance Cinemas in the U District -- on November 18, 2016. After getting wasted on "butterbeer cocktails" with Evan before taking the bus to the movie, I fell asleep during the opening credits and then woke up . . . during the closing credits. Oops! I went back to see it again at Pacific Place the very next afternoon, thereafter giving it a B+ review (I did enjoy it; I just thought the Harry Potter films were on average much better).
[posted 1:12 pm]