Yesterday, my colleague went home ill. Kira also said she felt unwell. Another colleague said she didn't feel the best and their partner also feels ill. Now, today, I don't feel great. I better not come down with something I seriously cannot be bothered. I know when I first started working here, being ill wasn't that bad. Yes it wasn't pleasent, but I got time off work. Nowadays, I simply do not want to be off work for being ill. It kills my routine and it knocks me so off balance. I have a very very very slight cough today, though it's barely noticeable.
Here, to the left, I have asked Chat to generate a HTML of a spinning wheel. You see, at work whenever I take a call, I rank it from 0 to 5 on how well I handled the call. It helps me understand what went well and what went wrong in the broad sense of things.
So, I tallied all calls that I've received on our new phone system (which started a few months ago) and these are the averages of each score. In other words, 53% of calls were a perfect 5/5, and so on.
I made it a spinning wheel specifically so you can simulate how often I have good and bad calls. For example, you could spin it and land on a 2. That means that the call went quite badly, maybe I stuttered or said the wrong thing. 4 ratings I usually give out if I couldn't understand the other person due to the new Teams integration as a way to track how many calls are almost inaudible. 4 ratings also go to just small hiccups that I might have.
I took some paracetamol about 40 minutes ago and I do feel slightly better, though I can tell that it's just numbing it. Yesterday I managed to get some of my book done. For the majority of work I do on this book, I'm mainly annotating and summarising everything I've wrote. This is because after rereading the first 4 chapters, I realise how rushed and shitty it actually is. The premise is there and the premise is good, but I really do eyeroll a lot more than I should when reading the first 4 chapters. Chapter 5 is where I took a more serious tone and is where I actually began to add more introspection and reasoning. But, like I said, the first 4 chapters are too quick, have contradictions, and one of the characters I want to rewrite entirely.
This character that I want to rewrite, I originally had her as just a very smart person who was a bit obsessed with the protagonist. But this doesn't add much depth at all, and I now want her to be psychologically manipulative towards the protagonist to the point where the reader believes this character. It should also make sense because of this characters isolation. I think in the first few chapters I got carried away with making this character too smart, where she shouldn't be a genius who knows every word combination, she is meant to be young, smart but sly and quiet, not a literal mastermind. It will get a rework, and the interaction this person has with the protagonist will hopefully feel drastically different, or at least more believable.