blocked

I'm supposed to be writing feedback for a coworker. It was due a week ago yesterday. I've turned in my direct supervisor's review and I'm just stuck on a couple of sentences for my coworker (and occasional carpool buddy). I meant to be just a day late. Then, I was going to do it overnight. At any point I could have emailed it from home to myself here at work. Then, I really meant to do it over the weekend.

We do this silly Keep, Start, Change, Stop format. I'm stuck on Change and Stop. I did his other two, but can't come up with what to recommend. Not that I don't have anything negative to say... I don't know why I'm being so careful. I've reviewed him for the past two years, so I have no excuses.

Stop: Spending so much time on Hotmail and E-Bay.
Change: Your whiny attitude.

Stop: Avoiding the Gym at the office.
Change: Your laziness.

Stop: Flying off the handle. Everything is not an emergency.
Change: Your bad taste in music.

I can't use any of these.

4:27 p.m. 2004-12-14

getting your blogs all twisted

Pardon my long quiet spell... I've actually been busy at work—working! Who knew? (Sure, I've been reading other people's blogs, mostly knitting, but job responsibilities have been pulling me away from my own diarrhea of the keyboard. Unless you count posting to my own knitting blog.)

It's funny. We've been discussing having a blog for the company I work for. A little late to the party, for sure. But we've had online journal elements a few times in the past.

Back in 2000, we had a week's worth of a daily diet journal. Our owner lived exclusively on the food products we produced. It was inspired by thespark.com's Fat Project. Subsequently, it inspired a friend's account of her battle with leukemia, The Weave Report.

This past summer, we did a road diary of the Mobile Marketing tour, a bio-diesel bus that traipsed up and down the East Coast doing mass sampling. Said program will be repeated next year.

Although it skeeves me out to have a personal voice representing the company, people do care about what happens within our walls. Employment Opportunities is one of the top-10 pages each month in our traffic reports. There's quite a myth about life here and our corporate culture. I guess folklore works, as we've gotten press for our wellness program and other services. Our climbing wall was erected years before dot-com's were even dreamed of.

I, handling all things online, would be responsible for the calendar, if not the voice and actual writing. I wonder if I'd be inspired to write more for myself then... it's my job after all.

Shall I cross-post this else where?

4:33 p.m. 2004-12-07

past - future