They have to stay the whole time? Eeep

Yup. In case there's a reaction to the anesthesia and they need someone to notify.

smonster email me.

Just to get you started: Ask him to source this. The usual figure for U.S. oil reserves is 21 to 22 billion barrels. So if he is saying there is a thousand times as much he needs to document. Similar, if he is saying EPA is corrupt, he needs to document. Though parts of it were very corrupt in Bush era.

I've had this anesthesia before and was wide awake afterwards.

I'm very glad they let Polgara just show up afterwards. She's a goddess who rescues me very many times, in many ways. But, no, I have no one to sit during medical procedures with me, and I make no apologies for that. Fuck off.

However, they give me the same (waking) anaesthesia every time, and the results are highly variable. Sometimes I swear I could drive my ass home, and sometimes I'm really glad there's someone to think for me and who'll buy me lunch on the way back because I couldn't handle change by myself.

However, I cab myself home on dilaudid and benadryl once a week, so there's that.

Insent, Typo Boy. It's not a huge deal, I just hate to leave that shit unanswered and my sister asked me for help.

Hey, look, it's 7:30 pm! I think I'll get ready for bed.

In lieu of transporter technology, we need a Buffista Emergency Transport Fund to allow one of us to get to another who needs something like someone to drive her to and from procedures and sit in the waiting room and make sure she gets home safe and is fed.

It's kind of annoying to have plenty of friends who would do stuff like this for you but they all live in different states. As I know very well.

I have showered, taken melatonin and Xanax, and am going to read for a bit.

I am really starting to wonder how much longer I am going to last at this organization and in the nonprofit world in general. I know companies are far from being bastions of sanity, but this level of dysfunction combined with a ridiculous lack of resources is driving me up the wall pretty quickly. It makes me sad; I was hoping to be with this organization a good long time, and I thought I had found a job that I was well suited for. Unless the new director makes some sweeping changes in the next few months... I just don't know. My boss' boss is unavailable to make decisions and then throws a hissy fit when they are made without him; he puts conditions on us that make our work impossible; he takes off for a few days or weeks or a MONTH without informing his direct reports. Literally, went to Mexico for a month "without telling anyone" last year. eta I'm pretty sure he's also a sexist jerk and apparently he has cheated on his wife. He's treated me like an idiot from day one and is one of the most socially awkward people I've ever met, but seems less so with men. To be clear, this is *not* the drama llama. Totally different person. IDEK.

smonster - has he made any mention of "hiking the Appalachian Trail"? And, as far as I can tell, non-profits all seem to be wacky and disfunctional ... each in its own way. (aren't I the comforting one?)

Maria, if it'd help, I think I still have the recording of "Songs of the Plains Apaches" my mother gave me for Christmas one year ... I can pretty much guarantee there'd be no memories attached to that. Painful, however ....

Seriously, my office has closed down and I'm "working from home" and if you need a friendly voice, would you like my phone number? or I'm in the book ....

Hoping you get an earlier appt., Ginger. That sucks to have to wait that long.

smonster, did you see the job posting that T tagged you in the other day? I didn't take a good look, but might be up your alley?