Timelies all!

Houseguests have arrived. We are waiting for Gary to get home so we can go to dinner.

I've been meaning to check out this [link]

It looks like it could have a good, sciency approach to cooking.

Oh, yes, I t heart Ratio! It's science-y and creatively empowering.

Day 2 as a permanent employee: met the big boss (well, a big boss, there are people above her but she's over everyone else who is usually in the building) and got generally announced as a new member of the team (and welcomed by various employees, which was nice) over e-mail.

Still looking forward to: getting my real employee badge instead of the Visitors Pass I'm still using, an ergonomic audit of my workstation, and I think some changes to my IT access. Will this all get done before I go on vacation? Maybe.

Tap. Dancing. Monkeys.

Jungle Book, day four.

Tomorrow I'm going to start treating the intern like she has some form of Asperger's.

I understand you're frustrated having to oversee an intern who is difficult to work with -- it sounds maddening, and I sympathize.

But what you're saying here is fairly offensive, both to people with Asperger's, and to the intern.

I don't know how to express it or explain it or ask for advice without further inserting my foot into my mouth. But, redacted.

Address the intern's behavior very specifically -- what she does, versus what is expected. You mentioned that a previous intern was "suspected" of having Asperger's. But absent a diagnosis, and with a pattern of 2 (not a huge pattern, but 2 makes it less random), I'm wondering how the intern position is described/advertised. Are these interns not adequately prepared for the position because they don't know fully what it entails?

I guess that might be step 1 -- how thoroughly was/is the position explained to prospective interns? If it's not explained thoroughly, it sounds like it's time to back up and explain the expectations of position to the intern.

If it was explained thoroughly, then you're back to just addressing her behavior, rather than trying to pin it on a diagnosis.

Also, assuming interns are people without (much) job experience, they may just have to learn how to have a job, which is what they are really there for, as much as to do the work you need doing. I hired a really smart young woman into her first office job, and she really needed to be taught how to be in an office, because she just didn't know.

I was already planning on having teak for dinner, but now I'm going to try tommyrot's salt 45 minutes before frying technique. I've never put a lot of effort into my steaks - a cheap cut indifferently cooked is still pretty tasty to me.

I seem to have signed up to donate platelets this Sunday. We'll see how that goes, I guess.