{"id":12872,"date":"2020-06-05T21:10:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=12872"},"modified":"2022-08-17T20:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T19:46:59","slug":"daily_1969_-_rooftop_lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/06\/05\/daily_1969_-_rooftop_lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 1969 &#8211; rooftop lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1969_rooftop_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nI met my colleagues face to face for the first time in months. We had a retrospective meeting and then lunch at Urban Deli&#8217;s rooftop restaurant. And since I was going to the office for this anyway, I worked there before and after the meeting as well.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting the team was lovely, but working in the office was much less so. There were interruptions all the time &#8211; and while it&#8217;s nice that people stop by my desk to say hi and chit-chat, it really kills my productivity. Add the time spent on commuting, and by the end of the day I felt like I barely got anything meaningful done (and I do count the lunch as meaningful and time well spent) even though I was away for eight hours.<\/p>\n<p>And for the first time in months I felt stressed. I had to look at the clock to start heading home at a reasonable time, and I felt the pressure to hurry home to the kids. Not pleasant at all.<\/p>\n<p>Back in March, it took time for me to get used to working from home. But now that I&#8217;ve settled in, it really works very well for me, and I haven&#8217;t felt this relaxed and productive at work since&#8230; forever.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_2\/1969_rooftop_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met my colleagues face to face for the first time in months. We had a retrospective meeting and then lunch at Urban Deli&#8217;s rooftop restaurant. And since I was going to the office for this anyway, I worked there before and after the meeting as well. Meeting the team was lovely, but working in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,768,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2","category-career"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15883,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12872\/revisions\/15883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}