6 february 2001
everything you say
everything you do
will come back to stand with you

At work, listening to Jane Siberry, and pondering many things. For instance, I ponder my recovery work, and how much I would like to find sympathetic people to talk to on a regular basis about it -- I mean, people outside of my organised official group, whom I can just fire off an email to whenever I think of something I'd like to say, and whom could do the same with me. And at the same time I feel like finding such people would be such an incredible difficulty; it seems like most of the people who are participating in recovery mailing lists & such are in a completely different place from me, and while we can occasionally exchange semaphore messages, most of the time our concerns zip right by each other. But surely, somewhere out there are people who are where I am in things? And surely I can find them? I have been toying with the idea of starting a mailing list of my own, but the self-revelation in doing such a thing is enormous, and of course there's no guarantee that the people who found my list would actually be the people I'm looking for after all.

I would continue with this vein, but unfortunately I really need to be writing code that will take two users and figure out which of 27 use cases they're in. Someday I hope to be done with this project, but at my current rate of progress it may be 2010. Tomorrow is therapy day, Thursday we have a hideous mandatory lunch with the new CEO... when will I have time to finish my code?


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