Got my groove back

So, I wrote the other day about feeling down on myself...somehow, I am feeling much better now.

Yesterday, I was still feeling a little down on myself, but was feeling somewhat better. We worked through the crappy code that started off the whole thing and made a lot of progress toward making it not suck, but by the end of the day, we had not finished the card (which was originally only supposed to take 4 hours).

But, last night I worked at home on fixing up some other parts of the code that I had started this weekend, and managed to get the changes in, and in the process found and fixed a bug. So, I went into work feeling pretty good about myself since I had finished up a little piece that we had all wanted done, and had fixed a bug along the way.

We started off the day with a very long discussion about the stuff we were going to work on this week, as well as talks about the state of the code in general, as well as where different classes belonged, and where we had things right now. I was very engaged in the conversation and felt like I actually contributed more than usual.

After lunch, we got down to work with our new pairs. I am working for the first time with our Business Analyst playing developer (he has a lot of experience as a developer). I thought I would be kind of nervous working with him, and I thought I might feel intimidated, but I didn't. I was actually fairly at ease, and didn't worry about saying things that came to mind.

I think that tomorrow will go fairly well as well. I will be working with him over Skype tomorrow and Friday since he works from home 2 days out of the week. I am actually looking forward to this, and I think it will be good for my ego to feel at ease about saying ideas that come to mind instead of worrying that I am going to say something dumb.