i’m not feeling as stressed as i was this morning because late in the afternoon, the computer repair folks called to inform me it’s a bad memory chip. um, yeah, told ya that. but it seems (with a bit of talking) it will be fixed sometime soon. at least i can pick up my baby tomorrow & use it with less memory while they order it in.
the meeting with the new thesis guy went well. the person who handled them has recently left (or been pushed) & i needed to have a chat anyway. i’ve been having great difficulty in finding a firm to work with. i can understand it… had someone i didnt know approached me i probably would have pushed them off also. time is running out so i needed to come up with a new approach. fyi, this ‘work w a company’ thing is a uni requirement.
so i tell the guy im having problems, we chat for about 2 minutes, i tell him a new idea & he sez that’s fine. WOW. that’s great.
now, instead of studying 1 team, i’m going to do interviews concerning the virtual team experience. AND they do not have to be from the same company!!! i can mix companies, industries, countries, etc. I’ll have to do about 30 or so but I think this will be a lot easier than my previous plan.
so….. if you’ve ever worked in a virtual team, volunteer now or i’ll probably hunt you down. IM, phone, email, or even f2f will work. (and sorry, i have no funding for this so i wont be making calls to the rest of the world).
in other news…. i got some excellent koko black chocolate & a spa gift certif for valentines day. i baked an angel food cake & didnt kill anyone! the last episode of the office was on tonite (where he begs for his job). and im kinda tired.
just a quick ‘cultural’ comment though… valentines day isnt celebrated as much here as at home. the florists have valentines decorations as do the chocolatiers and some others but not a ton. today while i was waiting for my thesis guy i was talking to another teacher. he was telling me about this conference he’s been organising @ uni. tonite was the opening (and free) speeches. he asked if i was going. um, no. duh. it’s valentines day. and he looked puzzled for about 2 seconds & then said ‘oh yeah. right. never thought of that when i was planning it’.