Oh msbelle. Hugs for mac.

NBC news coverage of Tim Russert is killing me.

ION, my big plan for the night was getting my nails done, but they told me to come back tomorrow! Who knew Friday night was the busy time at the nail place?

Question for the hivemind:

In a "Job Wanted" ad for an executive asst, what might you list as your software skills? I'm trying to update one that says "Five years experience. Word and Works."

megan, you might want to add Outlook and PowerPoint if applicable.

Emmett Update

EM just called back.

After fifteen minutes of listening to him scream "NO!" on the other side of his bedroom door, she just let him be and calm down for a while.

When he was calmer she went in to talk to him and he apologized. She got him to talk a little bit and the real reason for the meltdown came out.

He told her that he was upset that it was summer.

[See my face of total shock]

That he didn't like the unstructured time of summer and preferred the structure of school.

[More shock]

That he was really tired and burned out from the end of the school year and the game schedule in playoffs and that coupled with his anxiety about the unstructured summer just made him lose it.

[Huh]

So. He still wants to play baseball. He just wants a break and to skip this tournament. And he'll go and talk to his manager tomorrow. And EM will get him signed up with the Berkeley Parks summer program which is fairly loose but allows for regular structure.

That's where we are now.

[phew. Sort of. This doesn't feel entirely over.]

Kids. They have complicated feelings and they don't know what to do with them. Unlike grownups, of course.

Seriously, y'all. That dog has been at the groomer's for four hours. This is why I don't quibble at the price. (Or take her more than twice a year.)

Oy. Poor Emmett. But that's actually some seriously impressive self-awareness going on there, even he did have to scream out a lot of upset to get through to it.

In a "Job Wanted" ad for an executive asst, what might you list as your software skills? I'm trying to update one that says "Five years experience. Word and Works."

All of Office, for sure, if applicable. Any other email/scheduling type things, like Groupwise or whatever. If it's true.

Kids. They have complicated feelings and they don't know what to do with them.

At least he's old enough to figure out and articulate what they are, eventually...?

She is... she just knows him so well, so thoroughly, knows how to let him get to a place where he can calm down and articulate his feelings.

megan, you might want to add Outlook and PowerPoint if applicable.

It's a fake add. I just want to put what would be most likely.

I'd go with something like "Microsoft Office suite". Lotus or Works etc. if you actually use them.