Almost done with The Pressure of the last couple of weeks. I’m running a staff-wide evaluation assignment and will present it at the staff meeting tomorrow morning. It should be OK, though it’s an extremely challenging task.
I’m not into my boss’s attitude lately– I find it concerning. He might know something we don’t about other pressures affecting our organization. Not sure. But it’s not very comfortable.
I was supposed to work late last night with coworker on the staff assignment for tomorrow. She brought beers to the office, though, at around 6. By the time we had two each, we basically stopped working. Before I knew it we were at restaurant eating burgers and drinking more beers. I got home at 11 a little buzzed and now it’s today. In the scheme of things it didn’t hurt, I guess. I feel a little out of it today, which isn’t great given the daunting task ahead of planning this presentation for tomorrow. But I’ll survive. More coffee needed.
The air smells like burning rubber outside. It’s from a building that collapsed about 10 avenues away on the East side of Manhattan. Gas explosion, they say. Sometimes it’s easy to forget how piped and connected everything is in a city. Everything connected to everything else, somehow. It’s like the city itself is one big circulation system, with veins and arteries getting everything everywhere– water, electricity, gas, roads, everything else. Actually, the metaphor seems extra accurate. Electricity and power lines are like our central nervous system. Power flows from stations along physical lines, just like nerves throughout the body. Pipes flow to and from tanks and pumps and stations, just like our veins and arteries. Cars and trucks drive down roads, delivering stuff and people, parking and taking off, like our nutrients and carbohydrates and everything else that keeps us alive via circulation system. There’s the level of the city, the block and the building, with each unit wired and plugged in to a main building system, wired and plugged into a block system, wired and plugged into a neighborhood system, wired and plugged into a city system, wired and plugged into a regional system, that huge grid that overlays giant parts of the city. We’re wired and plugged into that, too. Those things I’m plugged into then enter my own body and flow throughout it. The macro the micro, my lung systems like a fractal of the city.
The universe is like that. If you look at pictures of deep space, it’s not all that different from deep brain.
Back to presentation planning for me. Have a great Wednesen Daeg.
