I have been doing super annoying training class scheduling for our staff at the location I work at. Sent initial email with training times of a mandatory class, let me know your top two choices or if you will be out of town. yadda yadda. Most people follow those directions. The people who never respond get a second email - Reminder! This is happening, it is mandatory - these are the remaining time slots available.

Now today - THE DAY OF THE TRAINING, I am emailing people saying - I never heard from you, there are two classes remaining today, which one will you be attending?

The part worse that people just not even responding to emails, though is that about 1/4 of the people who were schedule emailed TODAY to change their time. There is a serious lack of respect for committments and other people's time in this company culture.

So, in the winter Port Townsend pretty much shuts down st 5. It's a very dark & rainy ghost town out there. However, I have discovered a cozy little wine bar and have a glass of zin, so things are looking up.

For evenings, I strongly recommend seeing something at The Rose.

PT does tend to close early in the winter. The co-op as you enter town's pretty good, though, if you need to grab a snack, and again, there's always The Rose.

I had them cancel the group appointments and switched my doctor. I think I want to go home because I'm useless at work .

Today I had a great lighthouse tour (not too much peeling paint! No mildew!) and a really promising meeting, and then a tour of the Wooden Boat Foundation, and I'm taking the rest of the day off. There's lots of shops & cafes here, I shall go wandering.

I'd call accomplishing that a win for the day, Allyson.

I'm with Laura,that counts as a win.

I'm drowning in paper at my desk. Ugh.

I have a quick question -- anyone have a non-erinaceous TED talk that they think is amazing and would be good for students studying how rhetoric works?

I haven't seen her TED talk, but Tavi Gevinson was on Colbert the other night and I thought she was a really articulate teen. Link to her TED - [link]

I haven't seen her TED talk, but Tavi Gevinson was on Colbert the other night and I thought she was a really articulate teen.

She was!

I went to see Rio in SF when she was touring with the Rookie girls and I had only a vague idea of what the site was about. So Matilda and I are hanging out with Rio, eating ice cream and we troop over to the park where all these teen girls in homemade clothes and flower crowns are clustering around this one blonde girl. And she got up and started talking to them and she was literally one of the most charismatic people I've ever seen in person. Completely effortless and at ease in her own skin.

"Who's that?!" I asked Rio. "That's Tavi," she said.

Of course anyone that can hold their own in a Colbert gets points from me, but for a teen it has to be that much more difficult.