At least your body wants protein? That's a good thing.

Farmer Brown's looks fantastic. I hope you can go another time.

Mine was never too bad, either, but there were days when nothing looked like food.

That's pretty much it right now, though peanut butter still works, and hamburgers (eta as long as I don't have to cook them myself).

OOH, maybe I could go get a hamburger and milkshake for lunch.

Eh, you could, but you don't have to.

Cool!

I hope you can go another time.

Me too, and soon. (waits for Juliana or Javachik)

Having a delightfull little bout of insomnia. Oh joy. Looking forward to having health insurance again and getting some antiDs. Woot.

Package in the mail to you, FYI.

The bad news is that I am sick.

The somewhat good news is that it gets me out of going to the three-hour homeowner's meeting tonight.

Sorry you're not feeling well Perkins, farmer brown is awesome and I hope you feel up to it soon.

I don't think I can get exceeds expectations unless I do something like invent the internet.

We don't get to evaluate ourselves, but at my company it is extremely difficult to get Exceeds Expectations, nevermind Breakthrough Achievement. However, I'm hoping that my boss's efforts to get me promoted for the last 6 months means she'll give me Exceeds (because this year that would mean I get 150% of my ridiculous bonus and I'm sure she doesn't even remember that).

Jess, I hope kid 1 is better and kid 2 sleeps. And that Mama gets a kick ass nap.

Perkins, feel better--nausea sucks.

I have to go to the grocery store so we don't resort to cannibalism and then retouch my purple hair dye. Then I drive to Appleton for a roller derby mixer. I'm not skating--just working the bout. I hope I get to monitor the penalty box.

My company's new rules about evaluations make getting "Outstanding" very difficult and getting "Superior" almost impossible. I guess they don't realize how demoralizing this is. Especially when an employee (me) has been getting them for ten years, and now can't - from the outside it looks like my performance has gone down.

Trudy, what antiD's were you on? I was on Welbutrin for a long time, but have stopped taking it.

(I mean, are acorns edible for humans?)

totally! they were a staple for centuries. as mentioned upthread they require lots of work to be palatable for humans, IIRC many days of soaking followed by boiling and mashing. High effort food. but high in protein!

Yeah, our guidelines are incredibly tough. And the way the scores are calibrated is competitive - your manager scores you out of 5, with 3 being a postiive meets expectations. But then the scores are adjusted in "calibration" meetings across your entire business line or segment. So for me, not just my actual department of about 20 people, but all of Communications, Marketing and Research across the firm. So my boss will give me a strong rating (I presume) but then that rating will be compared and evaluated against everyone else with strong ratings and adjusted against each other into some sort of ranking. And then that's what your eventual rating, as well as comp and bonus calculations, are based on.

Based on this week's conversations I'm expecting to go in with a 4.5 on at least two of three categories, which is really awesome to begin with. But god knows what will happen then. To come out of it with 4.5s would be kind of staggering. But I'm feeling pretty confident right now.

Also, we had two people from my group leave the firm this year (voluntarily), so the bonus pool we're working from should have quite a bit more play in it than usual.

But it'll be end of March before any of this is final, and I really need to stop thinking about it.

Megan, I definitely should have mentioned you in the going to Farmer Brown, whenever it happens