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June 14, 2005
Tough Start, but getting better
Today I had a really rough start...Stephy and Lucy had to leave this morning at 7:30. I gave Lulu lots of kisses and hugs. I was able to hold her one last time before she had to get in her car seat to go to the airport. When I was kissing her cheeks she kept turning her head to try to suck on my nose ;-) It was so sweet. Then I started to get teary (And I didn't want to cry in front of Stephy to make it harder) so I gave her a quick hug and basically ran to my car. My mom kept trying to ask me questions about tonight, and I could barely keep it together. When I was in the car by myself, I cried until I made it to the highway. :-((( I'm getting teary now just thinking about Lucy and Stephy leaving us.
But, things started looking up when I arrived at work. I was finally a little EARLY!!! Which worked out really well today because we had an emergancy evacuation of the building at 8-9. So that was fun :-) and exciting. When I finally got started working, I opened a topic that the SME's sent back after their review (Fine-Tuning OSPF Timers was the topic that I storyboarded)...This is the comment that my SME sent back to me:
Elizabeth!
Call me by the phone (I'm taking this out so no one can call him) is you have any problems with my ideas, especially here at the beginning. Thank you for your great work. Some parts were really difficult to represent!
Sasa.
So, the thing to know about these SMEs is that they work for a company called NIL. They are all based in Slovenia, and they are total HARD ASSES. They are extremely knowledgable and one of the things that we struggle with is intpretting their feedback, and not taking their comments personally. They DO NOT give compliments unless you do something REALLY well, and with the language barrier their feedback seems very HARSH. (But in reality they are all really very nice and friendly in person...I spent alot of time with them before when I was working on DDMN in Boxborough). Anyway, I am so happy. Jeff was pretty impressed with the compliment, and I think that Sasa gave less harsh feedback to me in this topic because I proved my intelligence to him!!! :-) Anyway, I have to hop to it and get the work done, but I just thought I'd share my sad and happy stories.
Posted by beth at June 14, 2005 09:14 AM