Who wants to fly to LA? I'll buy the bubble-wrap for ita.

I had my briefing with the Big Boss, and he thought my flowcharts & tables & maps were awesome. Yay! And after all the hassle, my Nemesis decided she couldn't be bothered to attend.

... and then she emailed someone again that she should have CC'd me on--in fact, she should have just passed the guy to me, it's not her issue. This time my boss caught it and replied (because she CC'd him) and cc'd me on the reply. I despair of her. He claims she's as blunt as I am, but she's sneaky as fuck, and absolutely refuses to change her ways. And she lies.

Anyway, the briefing went great, and now I have a four-day weekend, although the dog has an ear infection and is sitting next to me whining.

Good job, Consuela!

Ugh, Juliebird.

Jesus ita, more excitement you don't need.

Good on you! Yay, four day weekend.

You've posted about the cuttlefish before, and I told Tim about it, and he was instantly ALL ABOUT Team Cuttlefish.

Who wouldn't be?!

See, I know you don't mean a sequined dress and wild wig, and that just makes me sad.

Alas, no. Just pheromones. Given the lack of compelling visual cues, it proves sufficient.

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I, too, was picturing snakes in wigs and dresses. Maybe lipsynching to "I Will Survive"

Julie, I used to have a friend like that, and had to just know what i was getting into and focus on the good parts. But in a coworker it makes me batty (my boss on a previous project talked and talked around stuff until she confused herself...). Good luck.

Consuela, glad your boss was so receptive.

This is for everyone, but I was thinking it may cheer ita....Naked Athletes. (NSFW. Video automatically starts playing on page (a big pet peeve of mine.))

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This is also good. Pictures of people getting scared in a Haunted House. [link]

Some look put on, some of those expressions can't be faked.

I feel like a horrible person, but as I was thinking through ways to apologize to her, even if she didn't realize that I was pissed off, it all came back to "I'm sorry I get frustrated when you waste my time and don't listen to my answers when you ask me a question and instead talk over my answers". I keep coming back to the fact that she's the problem, and any attempt to remedy the problem will make her more of a problem, because I'll be agitating, stressing, and upsetting her.

I don't know if she even realizes that I fled because of her, and if it would be more harmful to drawing attention to that fact by apologizing, when in fact I have no regret for removing myself from a situation where I would have caused more grief by staying (by exploding and biting her head off).

Glad things went well with your presentation, Consuela.

Julie, I've been there, and I don't know that I have any good advice. Or that you actually want any. Just keep muttering "Focus, focus, focus," under your breath and see if that works. OK, maybe not.

Thanks for saying something, JZ, and my apologies for adding to it.

That's what I meant up there with my random post from phone, just to be clear. I should never phone post.

I had a lovely dinner with my bestie from Baltimore in Salisbury tonight. I miss her! Wah.

Cass! I am diving back in to Spooks, and I blame you. Thanks!