Trying to be good. Oh yes, trying so very hard indeed.

Things at work are a little hairy. My counterpart at another one of the colleges is on vacation, and we're pretty close to that stuff, so... i've been getting a lot of calls and just trying to cover bases. I literally scrape dried stuff off the corners of my eyes from all the multitasking i'm doing at my desk. I have two monitors now.

I guess we're thinking about hiring someone to be an IT person with managerial responsibility at our campus. If you've ever heard me wax eloquent about how nice it is having a job at the polar opposite of the dot-com life... drop me a line. Downside, you'd have to partially report to me.

Yeah, i know. What the cheats. Seriously.

So... sometimes, i wonder how i got here. I know when i left college, i was thinking that the last thing i wanted to be was a manager. I wanted to be a codemonkey. Keep my head down, write good code, do good user requirements, do thorough testing, deliver awesome stuff, let someone else go to the meetings and write the emails. Our BSF leader put it best-- he's an IT manager, and the technology he uses the most every day is Outlook. Frowny frown.

I did do some good reading on how to manage programming projects last year. Joel on Software really lit a fire under me. I still don't do a great job managing my two minions/lackeys/monkeys/brilliant precious snowflakes, but i try my best. At least i'm not sending them to the KO'd pile for ongoing plots.

Just finished Brian K. Vaughan's Pride of Baghdad. Timely, and not horrifically judgmental. If you're into sequential art or international conflict, it's worth a read.

I'm reading Romans this year for BSF. We studied Acts this summer, so... good times.

I was loaned a copy of Enchantment, by Orson Scott Card. I'm reading that as my falling-asleep-reading. I'll link to it if i find it good, and worthy of your time.

What are you reading?
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