ita !, I'm so sorry you had to deal with the boss meltdown! It's totally unacceptable for a manager to deal with any employee or any situation that way. And when you work so hard, too, it's doubly unfair.

My manager occasionally has a meltdown. Whenever her boss is riding her and she can't cope with the increased demand for competence, she turns on her direct reports. A few times she's had her meltdown at me. I will stand up for myself, but damn, a confrontation with her leaves me shaken and exhausted and useless for the rest of the day.

I swear, I wondered if it was appropriate for me to just leave the room and go home.

And then I thought of my parents and I sat down and let him yell and talked shit out and actually did work. But, good god, it sure felt reasonable to end the work day at 11:30 for a while there. I wasn't sure if I could get back to my desk without looking like I'd just had a blubbering meltdown.

I read the EW liveblog of the Firefly panel, and they didn't mention anything about a reboot.

Is it really? It doesn't seem quite that sticky.

Yep. We have the A/C on, and when I walk outside it feels like I'll mildew if I stay out there too long.

Kat, I'm sorry, but I'm totally not hot. I wore a long-sleeved sweater to work today. Where do you live again? Because I think we may have slipped into not-that-parallel dimensions from each other. It's not like we've seen each other in forever. There's no proof we're in the same LA.

I was bitching mildly about my supervisor to a co-worker--who had started bitching first and much worse, so I felt safe--and he said, re: a criticism from said supervisor to me, "Well, he does have a crush on you."

I was utterly boggled. I doubt it's true, because that's not the vibe I get off him, and I'd be utterly weirded out if it were true. But the very idea that my co-worker would come up with that concept is the weirdest thing of all.

relatedly:

"On the Media" this week had a discussion about ebooks and apparently some publishers are using ebook data to help their authors write punchier dialogues or narratives because they can track where readers stop reading in the book and perhaps even page-turning speed. The areas that we skim, etc.

Well, when I left UCLA's campus today at 1:00 (and the building in which I am teaching is old and has intermittent sometimes air blowing but no conditioning) it was 86 degrees. That's not particularly inland nor far from your home.

At my house, when I got home it was 92 degrees. I then exacerbated the heat by agreeing to go and practice batting with Noah (if I think "Who the hell is this kid?" that sentence should make everyone say, "WTF? Kat?! not you!") at 3:00 PM. The field felt hotter than the face of the sun.

Right now it's 75 degrees which is okay, but the 60% (as of right now) humidity is not so grand. Our house is around 78 degrees with AC on.

I'm feeling like a weather girl.

Also, my elevation change from my old house (at around 700 feet) to our new house (at around 1650 feet) is pretty dramatic in terms of weather effect. It cools off nicely up here but still. HOT.

le nubian, did they mention they also track what people annotate and highlight? I highlight a shit ton of stuff so I'm always curious.

They totally can track that. Which weirds me out in a way that is not, I logically know, rational. Because my tv has been doing that for ages. Much less my online stuff. But books seem ... private? They aren't, obviously.

Whoo, temp just dropped to the point where windows are open and fans are on. I'd like to thank Seattle for having some weird thunderstorm thing because we were a lot cooler today than projected.