And these are larger projects, not tasks. FYI.

Also, could she please talking to other people in the organization as if I don't know how to do my job? I mean SERIOUSLY.

Fuck.

Noah is being super fussy today (eye exams do that). But he doesn't want to be held. So he's in the moses basket on the floor giving me this look of, "pick me up! I'm cute and alert and not crying. You know you want to snuggle me and hold me." But as soon as you do, he wails because it's too much stimulation.

He's such a boy. Fickle to the very roots.

Dear Boss of Jesse,

Back off.

Thanks,
signed her invisible friends

Hm. I think I need to sit down and have this conversation with myself. I have no idea what's urgent right now, and this is the least stressful time of my year. I have got to get things worked out. Summer is almost over! The build is almost started! Ten million people are coming to visit! (Okay, maybe twelve, but not a people person here.) All I seem to manage to do is hang out and hit craigslist umpty times a day.

Also, my current house scores 15 on the walkability scale, and that's before the coffeeshop & grocery stores nearest here closed down. Still, I find it walkable. I have my coffee at the local bakery on the corner. There are several walkable restaurants, a drugstore, two building supply companies, soon to be three, and the Walmart if you want to consider that a grocery. There's only really the one bookstore in town if you don't count the LDS ones, so that's not walkable, but it is on the bus line, which also stops directly across the street from me. I went without a car for a week out of every month last year and never missed it.

Anyway. My new house lists as a 5, and that's probably about right. There's the "Little Bit Saloon" and a tiny mom & pop convenience store within walking distance. But that's pretty much it. Although the map doesn't show the extensive recreation stuff in the area, because it's all private. But I'll be able to walk to the lake and beach and stuff. The big thing I'm worried about is the bus situation. It doesn't come up there (7 miles out of town). I can call for it to come up to the airport, but it'll be by special appointment (and will make all the other riders late and irritable with me) and it may take much much longer. And that's assuming I can find a way to get to the airport.

I have SO asked a boss to prioritize for me and been told that everything on my list was #1 priority and #1 importance. Does not work well.

I have SO asked a boss to prioritize for me and been told that everything on my list was #1 priority and #1 importance. Does not work well.

Obviously, "#1 priority and importance" needs to be subdivided into 1a, 1b, etc....

Since everything can't be priority #1, does it make you tempted to have NOTHING be priority #1?

Indeed! Hence posting here about it instead of actually making progress on any of the myriad of #1 priorities.

"pick me up! I'm cute and alert and not crying. You know you want to snuggle me and hold me." But as soon as you do, he wails because it's too much stimulation.

The human vision of the feline hand trap! Execpt with fewer bloody scratches.

Y'all I'm so going to end up working when I'm on vacation in a couple weeks. So wrong.

Liese, is the route to town bikeable? Cause that'd be my first alternative.

I once told a boss that "if everything is #1 priority, then I will do these in a random order and you'll just have to deal with it."

Then he sat down and laid out what he'd like to see done first.

I once told a boss that "if everything is #1 priority, then I will do these in a random order and you'll just have to deal with it."

Good one.

See, if they say "everything is #1 priority," they're just in denial that not everything they want done is gonna get done when they want it. Somehow, you have to find a way to get them to face reality. Assuming you care, that is....