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September 04, 2006
What Are You Doing?
Elissa and I are frustrated writers at the moment. There's stories, thoughts, experiences, and hackles raised up from our fresh uprooting to STL. But they all require framing, more framing than we're able to articulate right now.
I'm resorting to a dialogue. You may call my interlocutor 'Reader', or whatever else you fancy.
"What are you doing at work?"
A question with an answer more convoluted than I wish, dear Reader, though by necessity. Broadly speaking, I'm writing software for intelligence agencies. Technically speaking, I'm writing a new enterprise-level intranet application in ASP.NET and C#. Basically the same work as before, with the C# being a slight Java-like twist on my previous language of VB.NET. The kicker for me is that at this new place, being a large defense contractor with dozens of sites at CMMI level 5, there's a lot of meaty metrics and process optimizations that give my work interesting structure. The requirements often arouse intellectual engagement too. Being a large corporation where my product actually makes the company money (instead of helping the company to run its business better, like my last job), they take care of administrative and configuration work so that I can do what I love: write computer code that makes software.
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If I may venture a diagnosis of your current state: I fear you are suffering from the same problems we used to have when we sat down to write a paper for our undergraduate classes. The hardest part was to just write. Once you've jumped the obstacle of just starting, the words and themes begin to flow.
Just spit it out, Noel. The framing will come soon enough.
Posted by: Luther at September 12, 2006 05:42 PM
Thanks for the encouragement. I finally had a day where there was no work, no family, and no immediate crisis to resolve, and I feel much more situated and in control.
"...when I'm on the mic I'm known to spit something that these mc's hate but I couldn't care less what you feel what you say but I got to put it to you in my own special way..."
Posted by: Noel at September 12, 2006 10:28 PM