It’s been a brisk week. My boss has been on vacation so I have been filling in for her and, since some other team members were also on reduced scheduled, I’ve caught a lot of incident traffic coming across my desk. It has made the time pass quickly, but it has also been kind of chaotic and stressful. I’ve got one task that is haunting me because a.) I don’t know how to do it and b.) it’s overdue. I am hoping that I will get an opportunity today and tomorrow to get spend some serious time looking at the issue. I get the feeling that once it clicks I’ll be able to complete it quickly, but that could that could just be a self-inflicted illusion. So, in a near collision state with a self-inflicted illusion, let me return to the working world.
"…Living only for the moment, turning our full attention to the pleasures of the moon, the snow, the cherry blossoms and the maple leaves; singing songs, drinking wine, diverting ourselves just floating, floating….refusing to be disheartened, like a gourd floating along with the river current; this is what we call the floating world…” Asai Ryoi, in Ukiyo Monogatari (Tales of the Floating World, 1661)
Thursday, October 17, 2013
A Self-Inflicted Illusion
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