kitewithfish | (no subject)

I am back from my college reunion and flush with the feeling that I went to an amazing place for school, full of amazing people, and I am so, so glad I never have to be a student there again. God, it was a wonderful experience. My dear friend A was staying with me and we roomed together and it had all the great parts of being young and deeply friends with people while all trapped in one beautiful space together.

We ate junkfood and watched Speed and my god, Keanue Reeves was so clearly into Sandra Bullock that it doesn't even bear thinking about. We also watched Destination Wedding, which is basically older Keanu being super into Winona Ryder in a very Stoppard kind of way. Delightful.

I am also reading a great book, A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet, and it's really fun and each other characters feels like a real person, no matter how alien.

In work updates, from my day back, my annoying colleague who will never stop trying to game her metrics is now wants tech support to add a field to a report I created for her. M

ind you, I had already pulled report (some 200+ people in a geographic area), and given her a highlighted version of the resulting list so that she would reach out to some of the people there - she will probably be able to meet with, max, 10. But! I didn't give her the list of the email addresses with it, and she can't figure out how to add it, so she's bugging me to start the process over from nothing, instead of using the database to reach out to the 20 or so people I highlighted as being a particularly good place to start by looking them up, with their email addresses, in the context of deciding if they are worth reaching out to.

Why am I not re-running the list and giving it to her again? Because I gave her the report and she's had the exact same lessons I have had about how to adjust it, AND I walked her thru it live at her request. So, no. She can look up the people in the database, evaluated them as one, and then decide to email them as needed. She shouldn't be keeping the Excel sheet as her notes - she doesn't need the email for all of them. She needs to email 10, maybe, and she has the information she needs to find that.