If everything is number one - which things don't have to be perfect? In my world ( library) public appearance /relations matter more than anything else...some of the backroom stuff slides

I always hated hills on bike. I've done my dad's commute (10 miles throught the city traffic) in a little over half an hour but that's pretty flat. When I was on a trail in WVa, I wanted to kill someone.

Oooh, that's a nice Vespacar, though I'd want to know if they're actually street-legal in the US, which can get sniffy about nice little cars.

Yeah, I have no idea. It's just sitting in the Mexican restaurant's parking lot, for sale. I don't even know how much they want for it, I just know it's cute! I love the idea of it because I could theoretically even haul gear and building materials in it. But come to think of it, I have no idea how it would handle our wintry roads.

Adding to the Kat chorus. I'm so sorry to hear these latest developments. Continuing to have you all in my thoughts.

Another team pulls out of the Tour de France.

Tourde France.

You know how I pronounced that in my head, right? It's terribly appropriate given my view of the Tour right now.

Thanks for the head's up.

I wasn't picking, it was funny!

{{{Kat}}}

My current boss is very gracious about assigning priorities when asked. However, she's scatterbrained (as she admits herself). She'll come in and talk to me for 15 digression-filled minutes, while I as Queen Linear Thinking am all, "What's the point? What's the action item?" Then at the end, I say something like, "So I need to call so-and-so and see if our department is eligible for X?" And that will be it. But I can't hold it against her, given that I can say, "So it sounds like the deadline on this is two months away? Can I work on it after I'm back from Alabama?" and she's fine with that. My most recent former boss, NSM.

I do have one colleague who has me seeing red because A) she's the only one here who treats me like the help instead of as a colleague, and B) she's the type who acts like the rules are mere suggestions, and who spends money and makes plans before even finding out what the rules are. Now, I'm no fan of unfair or arbitrary rules myself, but this is a county hospital. Managed by a state university. Receiving funding from assorted federal agencies. Breaking rules out of carelessness or just for the heck of it creates a Gordian knot of bureaucratic tangles for the person who has to clean up behind you. And that would be me.