business

This is how I show up when I join meetings over VC and I'm at my computer (and not in a VC room).

winning streak

Just a day after giving the team what they wanted, I got surprising news today that we can have even more than what we were hoping for, and more than we thought was possible, based on precedent. It's kind of a miraculous combination that I want to savor for a moment before diving into the next tangled maze...

good girl

Got not one, not two, but three email pats on the head from the product manager in the last 24 hours, so I feel like I'm getting some hard-earned legal street cred on this team.

tomorrow

Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you, tomorrow, you're only a day away. A little over seventeen hours until the moment I've been anticipating for weeks...

tada

Finally gave the team something they've been asking for since Day One. It felt really good to send that email. I felt kind of like Santa Claus, if Santa Claus were a lawyer.

solvation

I think I might have found some unexpectedly workable solutions for what seemed like nearly insurmountable problems at work, and it was like the sky opened up and poured sunbeams of salvation on me. Then I was able to leave work on the early side, thereby extending my long weekend by a few hours.

pile it on

You know what's even better than pranking your coworker by making his wife think he was fired? Changing his chat status, mission statement, and auto-responder right afterwards.

five

Five simultaneous explosions at work, of varying levels of urgency. The most immediate one appears to be resolved, and I've made significant progress on the next few just in the last couple of days. It's going to be a long haul for the next month, I think, but I'm learning a lot. A period of terrifying chaos and long days makes the lull at the end of the tunnel look more beautiful. Keep going towards the light...

twelve

Yesterday, we celebrated Fiver's twelfth birthday. He got to skip his bath, and partake in some normally forbidden human food: cheeseburger with tomato, ham, and mango. He also got some extra dog treats. I think that's a good birthday for a dog.

treasure

The secret to an exciting burger, apparently, is to hide spicy chicken Italian sausage on the inside.

what work

Saw a coworker playing a gig with his band on Friday, and had I known some Flo Rida song, they would have had me do it. Movie and burgers in the backyard with another coworker yesterday. This was pretty much the most awesome weekend in a long time. I did a little bit of work, but it was totally overshadowed by all the play.

eclipse

And at Maker Faire, I got a thing to watch the eclipse, so when I got home I watched it, and it was cool, and I got to share it with a couple of families who passed my way, and the kids' wonder gave me some hope that science and learning aren't dead. Perfect day.

meet your makers

Randomly decided to go with a friend to Maker Faire today, and it was a million kinds of awesome. Great weather, good vibe, and the most fascinating intersection of creativity, whimsy, innovation, cleverness, hacking, tinkering, and joy.

that time

Hooray for jasmine season, the best-smelling season of the year, which also coincides with the best weather of the year!

lazy productivity

Who says you can't get anything done when you're being lazy? I didn't set foot outside my house this weekend, and I still read over 1300 pages, had a quasi-work-related VC, practiced bagpipes, watched about six hours of TV, gave Fiver a bath, did the dishes, called my mom, watched a movie, and caught up with friends in Switzerland.

final countdown

Only days remain until I get my happy little paws on a new gadget to test, if all goes smoothly. Days...

giggles

Uncontrollable giggles today when one of the engineers told me to navigate through a menu and then told me to pick an option and "tap that." Odd sense of satisfaction when he and the other engineers and product managers in the conversation were surprised that a lawyer would laugh at something like that.

navigation

Law on the bleeding edge is tricky territory, so it's satisfying when you get a question that ends up being easily answered, and the answer is exactly what you were hoping to hear.

modeling

One of my colleagues pinged me today to say people really liked my presentation last week, and that they want to use it as a model for the training series they're doing on various legal topics, to show the presenters how to keep their presentations interesting. I think I had an unfair advantage with the content I was presenting, but I was still flattered.

new girl

Fiver and I have a new work neighbor for the week. We played some fetch and tug today, and she totally cracked me up when she went swimming in the fountain.

solo

One good thing about having the house to myself is that I can turn up the music and sing along as loudly as I want.

back on track

Surprisingly, after a slightly slow start, I seem to be on track to hit 150 books again this year, although it's early days yet, and we'll see if it holds. Some real stunners so far, too.

caretaker

It's kind of adorable that whenever he has to travel on business, Boyfriend stocks up on groceries and makes lots of reheatable food for me so that I won't go hungry from a combination of his absence and my laziness.

encore

Two weeks in a row. I must be doing something right.

present

Made it through a presentation to the legal department about Project Glass, and it went pretty smoothly.