For all that I have negative feelings towards the boss lady heading out the door, shit, she gave us five weeks notice. And is prepping info to keep up us in the loop. Which is more than the last two bosses did ('wraps an arm around Juliebird's shoulder and says "It was nice working with you. Bye!"').

I question whether whether she actually has enough vacation time accrued to keep her planned vacation days (she's out all this week and the last week of July), but even if she takes a dock in pay, I'm sure she doesn't give a fuck. Greener pastures and all that. And why I don't see why we can start disregarding her opinion at this point (like how I should spend my Saturdays). But, basically, all decision-making should be taken out her hands, she has basically two weeks left, part of that is training the ED in excel metrics. I don't see how it's a big to make the executive decision that she no longer has authority over decision-making.

I think I may need to go back and clarify my raise. I've never done that. It was assumed on all parts that I'd get one regardless for assuming Director responsibilities. But now there's the new offer of a raise for a four-day work week with a raise AND working Saturdays. With negotiation for more if someone isn't hired by the time boss lady leaves. I don't know what my leverage is or for how much I should demand with a nonprofit. Or, shit, this is how bad I am, how much I'm going to get come next pay period. I just said yes without negotiation, which is how desperate I am. And sad. I am sad.

I was familiar with soft copy before I got here, but I'd imagine it's one of those things that you back-form once, and then it feels like you've always known.

Yes! Boss cancelled the meeting, but Outlook. So my confusion was warranted but unpressing.

Lee, I would have figured soft copies are electronic copies because hard copies are paper?

I just had the most mediocre dinner. I hate when I eat and I think, "God that was a waste of calories."

I did no know soft copy, but I figured it out.

I was able to reheat a small steak thing and make salad for dinner. Then I made garlic scape pesto (which apparenly I can freeze). I am getting more veggies tomorrow and I still have 2 heads of lettuce, a tiny bit of kale, and broccoli left! And we are getting more lettuce tomorrow! I am wondering if I can cook the lettuce somehow-- I made stuffed escarole with the escarole and it was delicious, and pretty much used a whole head for 2 meals.

ETA: I think one of the reasons I don' like precooking is that I really need meat or I get kind of whack doodle, and I like meat best when just cooked. And I get weird eating leftovers after 2 days.

Friend of mine wants to know how to translate "Luck be a lady" into Latin. For a tattoo. She thinks "Sit Fortuna domina", I think not but I don't know what.

I stood behind a lady at the grocery store that bought two things in the express checkout. A bottle of Starbucks mocha thingy, and what looked like a loaf of bread. Over a hundred dollars. Turned out the loaf was a slab of meat that cost ninety bucks. Holy fuck!

Sure, it was over two foot long, but, jeebus. I hope it tastes good. I know our local King's is fancy and expensive, but I didn't realize the butcher had cuts like that.

Was it a pork loin? Those things are huge!

I haven't heard softcopies but it only seems at all odd to me because I would be muh more likely to say PDF or something. Probably.

Warm -t, what is your popsicle apparatus?

Zuko Quick Pop Maker [link] I have the singleton one, and kind of wish I'd gotten one with more slots because it'd be easier to make 6 at a time and keep them in the freezer for later. But the instant part makes that not such a big deal. Although "instant" really means "in about 15 minutes", but that is instant enough for me, compared to "in three hours" or "tomorrow" that I was used to with a tupperware stuck in the freezer.

2-d metaphor - is using a plane with two axes no good? I may be too mathy to metaphor properly. Latitude and longitude? Streets and Avenues? A baseball diamond with folk medicine along the first base line and Western over by third and various treatments scattered around the outfield, maybe moving towards home plate as they get more effective or whatever?

I went to the grocery store needing birdseed and canned dogfood and maybe something for dinner and came out with three full bags. SO no claim to normality, but how I do meals is to have determined a basic menu that I don't mind following every week so I don't have to think about it very much, make 4-6 servings of each thing a time so there is usually stuff in the freezer ready to be warmed up, and a pretty good stockpile of stuff that doesn't need cooking - cheese and olives, Atkins meal replacement bars, pickled eggs, etc. Works for me, although I would actually like to eat out more, there are so many restaurants nearby that I haven't been to recently, or at all.

I want to buy robin food now.

I've heard of grilling romaine, maybe you could do that with lettuce? OTOH, I buy half a lb or 1 lb of spinach every week (alternating) and eat it all (so basically 1.5lb/2wks) and it lasts as long as it is dried out when I put it away. But I eat a big spinach salad for dinner every night.

The salad I made for dinner was pretty boss. But it's hard to go wrong with salad when you top it with lentils, a poached egg, bacon, and avocado.