Teppy, what a sad situation. Just a really awful situation.

I got a pen-pal letter today. So that makes Letter Writer's Alliance 1 Projecting My Own Self-doubt/Loathing on others 0. She has her own impediments...a teaching job and some small children. It is just too easy to shift into Rejected headspace these days.

TCG's second interview is tomorrow, if there is any interview~ma around.

~~interview~ma~~

lots of interview ma~~~

Ugh. How awful, Steph. I hope your family gets some resolution. It's minor solace in the face of a terrible crime but it might help with the grieving process.

Much interview ma to TCG. Here is hoping it is actually enjoyable and reaps a great result.

My precinct captain training went really well today.

Though, it made me a bit sad for the system because a lot of people didn't bother to show up and most who did were not particularly sharp.

I felt like I was fumbling all over the place, as there are roughly 498 extremely important-don't forget them or you are crushing the democratic hopes of everyone who votes details. And still, I finished every exercise in roughly half the time as anyone else in the room.

An official came in to give us a pep talk and, during the course of his remarks, offered a very bad case study that I know was about the woman I replaced. In private, I asked if he thought there was a chance she might come to the precinct to wreak havoc...she's wildly verbally abusive. He said there was no chance, as she has been moved to a different precinct!!! Not fired, as I had been led to believe.

Ah well, as long as she isn't here, I guess I can't waste any energy on her.

In the end, I got a lovely compliment from the trainer and the tech assistant liked me so much, he ran off to find one of the _very last, most coveted ever_ Board of Elections coffee mugs to give me. Apparently they don't make them anymore but he thought I should have one of the last four in existence.

I couldn't bear to tell him that I don't use printed mugs. So, now I need to find a new home for it...but I'll never forget his delight in giving it to me. So kind.

Oh my god. What did I say to break the thread?

Come back peoples! It's lonely in here.

No, bonny. We all love printed coffee mugs SO MUCH that we are aghast. Nay, *traumatized* that you would shun the noble en-logoed mug!

t hand to forehead

t mug in hand

t huge mess, bump on forehead now

(You know I'm kidding, right?)

I wish you could hear my deep chuckle.

You crack me up.

I was just worried that I'd bored everyone to death.

Does everyone but me love printed mugs?

My particular obsessive tendencies require total symmetry in my cupboards. Very little color...only a few green pieces...all heavy, white Crate & Barrel stuff.

I, sincerely, can't imagine having patterns on my dinnerware. I appreciate pictures in catalogs but could not do it in real life.

I even passed on some amazing "Eat at Joe's" coffee mugs in the right color, that weighed approximately 1.5lbs a piece. So cool but...there was printing on them!!

I think I might be ill.