Jay McGavren's Journal

20 Questions to a Better Personality...

The Quiz

You are an SEDF–Sober Emotional Destructive Follower. This makes you an evil genius. You are extremely focused and difficult to distract from your tasks. With luck, you have learned to channel your energies into improving your intellect, rather than destroying the weak and unsuspecting.

Your friends may find you remote and a hard nut to crack. Few of your peers know you very well–even those you have known a long time–because you have expert control of the face you put forth to the world. You prefer to observe, calculate, discern and decide. Your decisions are final, and your desire to be right is impenetrable.

You are not to be messed with. You may explode.

OK, this is getting seriously weird - another person greeted me by name in the hall today, and I have no clue who they were. Have I actually met these people, but my memory is going bad? Or have I gained that much of a reputation?

Back at work...

…after spending a day home sick. (Lenny was out sick with me - he had a fever of 103, which has since come down, though his cough is still terrible.) I also just got over a case of the hiccups - that had been running for over 24 hours straight. :P (Well, except when I was sleeping.)

I had a bizarre dream this morning… I was watching a trailer for a comedy by Pixar, that pitted God (the Hebrew one) against various figures from Buddhism in a barrel-chucking battle royale. Pixar depicted Yahweh as a bit of a hillbilly, I must say. :P

It finally hits home...

I just learned that while I’ll be doing the technical design for the new version of my GDS update program, coding work will be handed off to four coders in India.

Either I’m defining the role I’ll have within the IT organization (strictly design, which is actually the fun part), or I’m training my replacements. Until I know which, I’ll be polishing my resume.

Behind the power curve...

Since suddenly acquiring a family at home and being shoved into the bureaucratic dogpile at work, I feel like my life is always on fast forward. I’m praised for my work in meetings and thanked for my efforts at home, and I know I can do what’s being asked of me, but I don’t feel in control of the situation anymore. All I can do is dive in and give my best effort.

Well, I suppose this is what everyone goes through. I never even kept a calendar before, so of course there will be a period of adjustment for me.