Crazy at work and home!
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bethlakshmiYeah, I'm usually a little nutty. Now I'm nutty squared.
Check here to see how Betty is nuts.
Me? I'm crazy because I chose to be a Software Task Manager. A year in and I'm still feeling like I'm treading water. I think it's a combination of being new at the job, plus working on a new product, plus working on a technology that is fairly new to my company.
But, I'm strangely happy. My team seems to like and respect me and they willingly put in the extra effort to help each other and make life easier on me. They all seem to deeply respect each other, and I frequently hear them praising each other's strengths. This makes me so very happy.
Plus I got a groovy raise recently and took mermaid_lady and new_man out to Kooza, which we enjoyed a lot. I'm sure you've heard - the contortionists rock.
The new news on the work front is that I just subdivided my team - we're now three teams of 2-3 each, instead of one team of 9-10. This makes it possible for me to roll some work down to my team leads, while I fret about the big picture, the schedule and the metrics. So far it's wonderful. I have very experienced leaders in my group and they have no trouble with the interpersonal leadership work. And I'm SO loving this delegation thing!
The SCA front is a little quieter. I went to Coronation and felt like I was rising from the dead, I've been so inactive. I still love the SCA, but need to only tackle a few things at a time and Burlesque and work are eating my brain.
One thing I haven't stopped is Indian dance and music. When I do get more active, I will have LOTS to teach. In fact, if I weren't already extremely busy, I would look to take on students of some sort, just to flex that teaching muscle and really dig into Indian dance a little more.
Here's something really cool - my teacher is a master of the dance number called "Ashtapadi". She's teaching me a verse of this style from the Gita Govinda about Randha and Krishna, and how Radha goes insane from love when Krishna stays away from her too long. The cool part? Well, first the number is just awesome. The abhinaya is more instense and yet subtle than anything I've done before. It makes the stuff I performed in my early years of dance look... elementary and flat. It is really powerful. More exciting yet - this was a number my teacher performed years ago at BU. I remember going to the show and being ***riveted*** by this performance. I'd seen her work many times before, both traditional and modern stuff - but this was special. I just couldn't take my eyes off her. She glowed. I often speak of a dancer having "it", and inner glow that suffuses their dance style and makes what would be merely precise on someone else into a breathing, living piece of pure joy. When she danced this dance, she had "it" ten times over. I sat there locked in, thinking "oh my god, *this* is my teacher. This!!" I think it was in that moment that I really knew that I didn't just want to learn stuff, but I wanted to be that good.
Now I get to learn it! I'm definitely not that good yet, but I'm thrilled that she thinks I'm good enough to learn something so wonderful. I hope to find my own "it" and bring it to this peice and I pray to have the patience to get it there.
Check here to see how Betty is nuts.
Me? I'm crazy because I chose to be a Software Task Manager. A year in and I'm still feeling like I'm treading water. I think it's a combination of being new at the job, plus working on a new product, plus working on a technology that is fairly new to my company.
But, I'm strangely happy. My team seems to like and respect me and they willingly put in the extra effort to help each other and make life easier on me. They all seem to deeply respect each other, and I frequently hear them praising each other's strengths. This makes me so very happy.
Plus I got a groovy raise recently and took mermaid_lady and new_man out to Kooza, which we enjoyed a lot. I'm sure you've heard - the contortionists rock.
The new news on the work front is that I just subdivided my team - we're now three teams of 2-3 each, instead of one team of 9-10. This makes it possible for me to roll some work down to my team leads, while I fret about the big picture, the schedule and the metrics. So far it's wonderful. I have very experienced leaders in my group and they have no trouble with the interpersonal leadership work. And I'm SO loving this delegation thing!
The SCA front is a little quieter. I went to Coronation and felt like I was rising from the dead, I've been so inactive. I still love the SCA, but need to only tackle a few things at a time and Burlesque and work are eating my brain.
One thing I haven't stopped is Indian dance and music. When I do get more active, I will have LOTS to teach. In fact, if I weren't already extremely busy, I would look to take on students of some sort, just to flex that teaching muscle and really dig into Indian dance a little more.
Here's something really cool - my teacher is a master of the dance number called "Ashtapadi". She's teaching me a verse of this style from the Gita Govinda about Randha and Krishna, and how Radha goes insane from love when Krishna stays away from her too long. The cool part? Well, first the number is just awesome. The abhinaya is more instense and yet subtle than anything I've done before. It makes the stuff I performed in my early years of dance look... elementary and flat. It is really powerful. More exciting yet - this was a number my teacher performed years ago at BU. I remember going to the show and being ***riveted*** by this performance. I'd seen her work many times before, both traditional and modern stuff - but this was special. I just couldn't take my eyes off her. She glowed. I often speak of a dancer having "it", and inner glow that suffuses their dance style and makes what would be merely precise on someone else into a breathing, living piece of pure joy. When she danced this dance, she had "it" ten times over. I sat there locked in, thinking "oh my god, *this* is my teacher. This!!" I think it was in that moment that I really knew that I didn't just want to learn stuff, but I wanted to be that good.
Now I get to learn it! I'm definitely not that good yet, but I'm thrilled that she thinks I'm good enough to learn something so wonderful. I hope to find my own "it" and bring it to this peice and I pray to have the patience to get it there.
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Date: 2008-10-16 12:40 pm (UTC)