The CIO sent out a company-wide email last week talking about the SWAT team pulled together to work on the recent issues, and named us all. She still refuses to spell my name ita. She's never spoken to me about it, but it's always either iTA or ITA, and this time the entire company got to see it, and I ended up with some ribbing as a results. I guess I just let it lie? Maybe if we have a company function and end up proximal? I dunno. This might be an epitome of sleeping dogs and lying.

Former boss has a goatee now. Because I have a few filters installed at off angles, and am kinda high with the feeling of being in a new team, I was all "Mirror Mirror" Spock which cracked him up. I did suggest that his evil self could be his good self, but luckily was not able to make it all the way to Community.

Still! Guys keep showing with fully formed facial hair! It freaks me out! He's the second coworker in a month, and at least I didn't shriek this time.

It's weird sitting in a section where all the conversations near me are in a language I can understand. Can't decide if that's more or less distracting.

I hate it when someone calls me with an urgent voicemail and then when I call back they aren't there. now I'm just sitting here waiting for her to call me back and I don't even know what she wants.

I don't know why people can't tell you what they need up front. My current pet peeve is people who IM you with "hi" or whatever and don't tell me what they want until I respond. Which I do not, because I am in a snit about it.

My current pet peeve is people who IM you with "hi" or whatever and don't tell me what they want until I respond. Which I do not, because I am in a snit about it.

We have a friend who will text and ask "What are you doing?" when what he *really* means is "What are you doing tonight and if you are free would you like to get together?" If he would just append the word "tonight" to "What are you doing," I would answer properly. But he doesn't, so I always answer with whatever I was doing at the moment I got the text.

Am I a dick? Pretty much yes. But I'm okay with that.

Which I do not, because I am in a snit about it.

Oh, this is so me.

Man, I love asking questions that are stupid because I forgot something and the minute you give me piles of financial verbiage, I swear my comprehension and retention just flees. Ah well, got the answer.

Plus Ohio's elected officials need to die in all the fires.

They are as egregious a bunch of asshats as ever rocked a gerrymandered district.

Not that I'm much happier with the NC lawmakers. I should go to the Moral Mondays, where people are protesting various attacks on the poor, the environment, voting rights, etc., but my crowd thing keeps pulling me back. I need to get over it. Or at least find a way to send them pizza.

she finally called me back. She didn't need me after all. She already got the answer. How nice.

I think people do that because they don't want to ask the question unless they know you're going to answer right away, but it still annoys the crap out of me. If you need an answer immediately, call me! And if you don't, just type it and wait!

I love that progressives are calling the protests Moral Mondays. I feel like we always get on the short end of the "doing the right thing" naming things.

I love that progressives are calling the protests Moral Mondays. I feel like we always get on the short end of the "doing the right thing" naming things.

As I understand it, a bunch of the organizers are ministers/priests/[your religious title here]. Which might have partially led to the name. It's making it really hard for the opposition to label them hippie commie thugs gathered to do drugs, destroy America, and seduce your teenage offspring. Although the opposition is giving it their best.