We just got the monthly anniversaries list here at work, and I realized that I'm only 2 1/2 years away from my 20th anniversary. Wow.

I was actually a little weirded out by my 10th anniversary at my job.

I think my cat thinks my enclosed, upstairs back porch is outside. She meows and meows o go out there, and when I let her out (and close the door because it is freezing) she meows and meows to get in. I keep being scared she is using the porch as a litter box, but it does not smell, and there is pee in the litter box. I wish she had never discovered the porch, though.

Wow, Kathy!

Signed,
Coming up on 23 yrs in the same place and trying not to feel old.

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I just had my 10th anniversary at my job, and my society's director apparently informed all the Editors-in-Chief I've ever worked with. Three of them have sent me notes telling me how wonderful I am and how working with me was "the best part" of being EiC. I forwarded them all to my boss and my boss's boss, and you can bet I'll be pointing to them come salary review time. Accolades make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. It almost makes this insane job worth it.

Except now they're saving it for special occasions.

Like, Sunday? (I wouldn't was JBM on work coffee. I'd save if for a relaxing morning)

Can you make hummus with bacon fat? Maybe I'd like that.

Hmm, I don't know. I wonder how the texture would be because bacon fat is not liquid at room temperature. Perhaps an experiment . . .

I save my Kona coffee for special occasions. I call them, "mornings." I technically own other coffee, but it is foul dreck, fit only for consumption of desperation.

What about goose grease? I bet hummus made with goose grease would be yum.

This is our ninth year at our current jobs. The mind, it boggles. I always previously used to get antsy around five years. Like if I somehow stuck with a job too long, I'd have committed too much of my life and identity with it. This one, that's water under the bridge.

Like, Sunday?

This is what I said. Someone suggested to one of them that Valentine's Day was appropriately special, and he gave one of the most derisive laughs I've ever heard. Warmed my heart, it did. What heart there is left.

I wonder how the texture would be because bacon fat is not liquid at room temperature

There is that. But in the spirit of adding to the amassed knowledge of the human race!

I've never been at a job longer than about three years.

Can you make hummus with bacon fat? Maybe I'd like that.

Only one way to find out!

I've been at this particular job 12 years and in my company for 22.