March marches on
Mar. 26th, 2023 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allekhaBeen a busy March for me! I traveled down to give a presentation for work with my boss at a university we collab with a lot - it's a bit weird to now be the outside speaker at the grad student seminar instead of the grad student who didn't really want to be there 95% of the time, haha. We had a good reception to the talk and the students asked good questions, so I think it went well :) Also saw my parents and went to work in-person for a couple of days, then came home juuust in time for a bunch of snow!
A lot of my work time this past month has consisted of me bashing my head against code for a new project - I had to do some things which were not documented very well and then spent two weeks trying to figure out an error code/waiting for someone to be free to help me figure out my error. But now that it's finally solved, I'm making good progress. I have to use R rather than my fave Python, and I haven't used it for ages, so everything seems a little bit backward.
I also finally had my ENT visit to get my vocal cords looked at. I can't say I really enjoyed the experience - the office was huge and very Corporate, they repeatedly emailed me to ask me to fill out a bunch of forms beforehand only to then ask me in the office for information I had already filled in two or three times because nothing talks to each other and they can't actually see anything I filled in, and everyone seemed very rushed. The doctor outright told me that she didn't have time to read anything, so she had no idea what problem I was there for. (When I told her, she then asked why I hadn't seen anyone for my voice problems before now if I'd had them for so long. I almost laughed in her face. Maybe it seems like a medical problem if you're an ENT! Everyone else just thinks you're not trying hard enough.)
Also, I found out that having a tube down your nose sucks :( They did give me a numbing spray, but it still hurt a lot, even though that's apparently not supposed to happen? I guess I should have told her. Notes for next time. At least my vocal cords didn't have anything obviously wrong with them. They have scheduled me for another test as well, but I need to check with the speech pathologist to see if I need that done or not.
Watching skating Worlds this week was pretty fun. I'm happy KanaDai didn't fall over this time, and for the most part, the men's and women's events were pretty good, despite some heartbreaks. Seeing Katya going from :D to ??:(?? at her scores in the FS was rough, but it's not like she hasn't struggled with rotation for a while, so I can't say I was super surprised and I hope she can work on that. I'm pleased for the women's podium, especially for Kaori for hanging on after the popped flip to add a 3T and Loena for hanging on in general and committing to her performance despite the mistakes. And Kazuki did great despite his falls, even if he ended up improvising his step sequence in the FS (good job, Kazuks).
I liked having Belinda on the world feed during the Olympics, and she and Mark made a great team with good rapport. It really came across how much they enjoy watching good skating and keep up with it. They were positive without being blandly uncritical or simplifying technical critique down to nothing, and it was also pretty clear that they were happy to have full-grown adults vying for medals in the women's category. Would love to hear them team up some more :)
A lot of my work time this past month has consisted of me bashing my head against code for a new project - I had to do some things which were not documented very well and then spent two weeks trying to figure out an error code/waiting for someone to be free to help me figure out my error. But now that it's finally solved, I'm making good progress. I have to use R rather than my fave Python, and I haven't used it for ages, so everything seems a little bit backward.
I also finally had my ENT visit to get my vocal cords looked at. I can't say I really enjoyed the experience - the office was huge and very Corporate, they repeatedly emailed me to ask me to fill out a bunch of forms beforehand only to then ask me in the office for information I had already filled in two or three times because nothing talks to each other and they can't actually see anything I filled in, and everyone seemed very rushed. The doctor outright told me that she didn't have time to read anything, so she had no idea what problem I was there for. (When I told her, she then asked why I hadn't seen anyone for my voice problems before now if I'd had them for so long. I almost laughed in her face. Maybe it seems like a medical problem if you're an ENT! Everyone else just thinks you're not trying hard enough.)
Also, I found out that having a tube down your nose sucks :( They did give me a numbing spray, but it still hurt a lot, even though that's apparently not supposed to happen? I guess I should have told her. Notes for next time. At least my vocal cords didn't have anything obviously wrong with them. They have scheduled me for another test as well, but I need to check with the speech pathologist to see if I need that done or not.
Watching skating Worlds this week was pretty fun. I'm happy KanaDai didn't fall over this time, and for the most part, the men's and women's events were pretty good, despite some heartbreaks. Seeing Katya going from :D to ??:(?? at her scores in the FS was rough, but it's not like she hasn't struggled with rotation for a while, so I can't say I was super surprised and I hope she can work on that. I'm pleased for the women's podium, especially for Kaori for hanging on after the popped flip to add a 3T and Loena for hanging on in general and committing to her performance despite the mistakes. And Kazuki did great despite his falls, even if he ended up improvising his step sequence in the FS (good job, Kazuks).
I liked having Belinda on the world feed during the Olympics, and she and Mark made a great team with good rapport. It really came across how much they enjoy watching good skating and keep up with it. They were positive without being blandly uncritical or simplifying technical critique down to nothing, and it was also pretty clear that they were happy to have full-grown adults vying for medals in the women's category. Would love to hear them team up some more :)
