Twitter remains my instant-gratification-media favorite. Tumblr confuses me.

Ben just had sushi for the first time with a friend and liked it. Lee will be so proud.

I AM! Perhaps I should have sushi for dinner to celebrate.

I am fighting off an anxiety attack about my boss returning tomorrow. And by fighting off I mean, I am aware that I am on teh edge of one and I am attempting to deep breathe, but it is really not helping.

He is not responding to my emails, despite sending other emails. The HR person who I send my timesheets and sent me two emails today (and she never sends emails), both kinda watchdoggy. One requested that I make sure my boss approves my timesheet (which he always has, but that was pre-writing up). And the second which told me to make sure I logged my sick day in this internal thingy. I had no idea we logged sick days there. It is where we ask for vacation days and they get approved or denied, but sick days can't be approved or denied post date of abscence - that makes no sense. Also, I do not think we have a set # of sick days, just that if you are out more than X days in a row you must have a Dr. note. So I now think I am on a list of problem employees who are being carefully watched which is such utter bs, I cannot even.

Oh, msbelle, it's awful to work with that kind of tension. What the hell is their problem?

Oh, msbelle, that sucks. I totally understand the boss-created unnecessary anxiety.

Man, I hate corporate reindeer games.

But, Steph, WHY do white people all want rope corsets? We need a research grant to study this phenomenon, stat.

Oooh, research grant! Yes, definitely!

Steph, I'm not sure you have to have been born with a penis, and there's always the possibility that merely having sex with a member of the family suffices for entree. I'm willing to broker that if need be.

I think my whole monogamy dealie with Tim has a loophole clause for trip-to-Jamaica-for-awesome-party-with-kickass-family. It MUST.

msbelle,

can you speak to the HR person (in person) to let her know that there is some tension between you and your boss? I feel like you need to explain the situation to someone.

"I see sub (SUB) text in 'chasing and killing a black man with a pack of wild dogs'

After 40 years of minstrel shows of Uncle Tom's Cabin, mainly featuring Eliza fleeing over the ice from a pack of dogs, how can there not be a racial subtext?

I'm also spending the day chit chatting with a guy that doesn't like the "recent" (and clearly PC) trend of using actor to refer to women (which butchers the language). I told him he's really adapting to computers really well, considering the word's been gender neutral for at least 99 years now (thank you, erinaceous, for wordnik's one stop shop), and it's a shame he's not as adept at English as he is with technology.

I almost went off to the all IT meeting half an hour early. Yikes. I managed to panic someone that it involved performance, since we need to bring cameras. It was worth actually having that low level paranoia myself.

Good lord, a co worker just offered me a hug. I offered to call HR. Let's be realistic here.

Is it Dusmesh on Ludlow, Steph & flea? That would totally work for me, and sounds great. Shall we say 11:30 or so? I have to drop the dog off at the kennel here in Indy, so that should give me time to get sorted and get over there.