I came in today to a really angry email to me from my (old) boss, which was cc'ed to my new boss and the owner of the company. I believe the phrase "dropped the ball" was used. I managed to smooth things over, but then I got to end the day by firing an employee, who completely broke down and cried on and off for an hour. Plus DH is off in Canada driving land Rovers and is unreachable. Long fucking day, I tell you what.

God, Scrappy, I can't imagine. I was the final nail in getting a coworker fired, and I wasn't the one who had to pull the trigger, and it was still awful.

For example, Meara's and my friend N would let meara know and she would let you all know. And N would tell my other online group

Does N actually do stuff online these days? I never see him anywhere the past few years. What with law school, and lawyering. I also figured F would tell us if one of us died.

I did semi-seriously worry, without a roommate, what would happen if I died (or fell down the stairs and broke my legs and couldn't move...)

Of course, now she's going to be blocking the driveway with her POD when I get home from my redeye flight, and I just know there's not going to be any parking and I'm going to be grumpy. And I hate that I'm pre-emptively grumpy about it.

I believe the phrase "dropped the ball" was used. I managed to smooth things over, but then I got to end the day by firing an employee,

Wait, did you drop the ball? Or the other employee? It sounds awful, I hope you got to have some nice dinner or a drink or rollerskate tonight.

I spent most of today trying to make broken things work, tactfully not mentioning that people shouldn't promise that I'll produce something before they check with me that it's not actually impossible, wrangle projects, getting threatened with legal action, and delivering bad news to many people.

Also: shark.

I'm dog-sitting for the next two days, and I'm wondering if the St B has a UTI, because he demands to go outside every 20 minutes. This is getting ANNOYING.

Does N actually do stuff online these days? I never see him anywhere the past few years. What with law school, and lawyering. I also figured F would tell us if one of us died.

he's very active on my other board.

We got our first call from the principal today. Owen got in his first fight in school.

A kid has been riding him all week and today the kid was teasing Owen because of one of the comics he was drawing. Owen lost it and grabbed the kid. Of course then he got choked and pulled the boy's shoe off.

And the teacher sent a note home about homework.

Not ready for this.

Ugh Cash, that's tough.

Definite ugh, Cash.

ION, I just watched the premiere of The Good Wife.

I think I might need a cigarette

Gnargh, Cash.

I just had my first sleep psych session. In order to convince me that I'm not unmanageable, the doc told me about a case she had where the woman was worse off. Fine, that happens to me a lot. Her point was that serious chronic pain issues don't mean she can't help my sleep cycle.

The bit where she told me the chick was black and that it was a real inner city sob story? NSM. Also, "My secretary is from Trinidad¹! But she grew up in England."

Yeah, she's really special. No one ever grows up in England. Why are you boasting about her?

¹: Seriously, that means nothing to me. Lots of people are from the Caribbean. Sometimes they were sitting in the next room a couple hours ago.

Huh. It's possible we didn't insta-bond.