Probably not the most helpful suggestion.

Hah! It has many fewer instances of "fucking" in it than the ones I was thinking of. It seems to have stopped for the moment though.

We just had an "in-shelter drill"--basically, a tornado drill without sitting along the edges of the hallway with our arms covering our heads. They just moved us all into the underground garage, where all TPTB park. I've been here 19 years, and that's the first time we've ever had that kind of drill. Fire drills, yes, but never this.

So, what I was saying the other day about my boss potentially having no place in the new organization? It's official. Confidential (dammit) but official. I am not 100% sure she knows.

In conclusion, hookers and blow.

I haven't watched all the eps of Raising Hope, but I've definitely enjoyed what I've seen.

There's a bit of a status thing around how distant and obscure the village is where you got your latest earrings, though.

Hah! Love this. I enjoy buying clothes/jewelry while traveling so when people say "oh, those are great earrings!" I can say "I got them in Budapest/Hawaii/Peru!"

yikes, Brenda.

I'm trying to figure out when to leave for the company picnic. It officially starts at 3 and goes until 8. I have no meetings this afternoon and my boss is going over there early. But Bob is coming out for it and can't leave his work until 530 or so. Do I really want to be there for that long? That's a lot of socializing.

And I only have my office for a couple of more days...

We're having an unofficial picnic/bbq today. Unofficial and annoying: it's at the Big Boss's place, which is an hour's drive away, in Novato. If you go, you get the afternoon off. If you don't go, you have to stay and work.

This is a treat? Yeah, whatever. I'll stay here and go to the farmer's market for lunch. Which, hey, it's time for that now!

If you go, you get the afternoon off. If you don't go, you have to stay and work.

That's annoying.

We can charge up to 2 hours to picnic time.

If you go, you get the afternoon off. If you don't go, you have to stay and work.

Oh yeah, fuck that. I vote stay and don't work.

Sucks, Brenda. Ugh.

If you don't go, you have to stay and work futz around on the internets.

Fixed that for you.

Ugh is right. I mean, I could see it coming (obv.), but not the direction I want. I have a very strong relationship with current boss. Starting Monday I will be reporting into her current boss, who I don't know very well, don't altogether trust, and who doesn't really have a great understanding of what the hell it is we do.

With all the changes going on and in development, I'm going to have to be basically playing politics full time until things sort out to make sure I land in a place that works. I'm in a good position to do that, I think (hence all the confidential meetings and shit) but I don't wanna.