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Guess what I've been working hard all morning, like, legitimately! Okay, until 11:43 a.m. when I started the draft of this post. What a pain in the ass it is, so many intensely time-consuming things to catch up on after vacation, which puts other things on the backburner and compounds being behind on other shit.
It doesn't help that Shelley, our new Grocery Merchandiser, has new ideas for how to approach ads, which—and she did not know to expect this, and to some degree even I didn't realize how labor intensive it would be, so I'm not mad about it—are making the work on July ads this month take nearly double the amount of time I would normally need to take on ads. She had meetings with both Justine, the Director of Merchandising, and Eric, the Pricing Manager, who basically gave her the go-ahead with these changes, declaring them fine. The problem here is that these meetings took place largely when I was out of the office, and it would have been best to meet with Justine, Eric, and critically Noah as well as myself, all at once, to hash this stuff out. Because there's a step in order guide generation that Eric clearly does not know about that effectively negated all of this extra work I did due to its own limitations. Ugh!
Well, at least the ads are done now. I get to spend the rest of the week further catching up on other things I had no time to catch up on all last week.
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As for last night, there's not much to tell anyway. Shobhit worked a late shift and wasn't home until after 10:00. I wound up spending the majority of my evening finishing episode 1, then watching episodes 2 and 3 of
Winning Time on HBO, which Gabriel has recommended multiple times so I finally gave it a chance, even though it's about the rise of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, and why the fuck would I be interested in that? Well, I do love John C. Reilly. And I especially like Gabby Hoffman. Then there's a supporting part by Salley Field! Also, all the performances are excellent.
I felt dubious with the first episode, which is very recognizably directed by Adam McKay and I wasn't sure I could stomach his self-consciously clever style for ten hours. Also, way too much time with characters talking directly to camera. That happens less as time goes on, thankfully. Also, a major character is Magic Johnson, and there's a lot about his family, and episode 1 was conspicuously absent any crew members of color. I was relieved to find that changes with later episodes, with Black directors and writers both.
The show gives nuanced focus on many of the women characters too, which I don't think it would have to nearly the same degree even, say, ten years ago. The more I watch this show the more I'm impressed with it. I don't think I'd ever convince Shobhit to watch it though so I'm just watching it on my own. Besides, I'm hoping he'll watch
The Staircase with me, as that one is packed with actors I love.
Anyway, I might have gone to bed earlier than I did, but I also started writing the travelogue email I'll eventually send out about this past weekend with Jennifer, plus the rescheduled Birth Week activity I'll do with Laney in a couple of weeks, as a sort of "Birth Week Epilogue." I got really sucked into writing the first parts of that and was still working on it when Shobhit got home. But then I went to bed.
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[posted 12:27 pm]
