Plei...really?

Yep. Specifically, "Hope Suzi's hanging in there re: election nonsense."

Why is there not a potato chip delivery service?

Instacart + Trader Joes?

It's being one of those days. It's the week of our biggest conference and there's only one other person in the office. I figured it would be quiet and I could catch up on all the stuff that piled up during the pre-conference frenzy ... and catch up with my Buffistas.

Dream on.

The past two days have been an unending stream of people calling and emailing and needing to have files emailed to them, research done and sent on, messages passed on, new things done and so on. My boss is on my back over a mass email to go out tomorrow - I've been trying to make the edits he wants in between the urgent and the vital demands and I missed a change he wanted. I'm trying to patch together an update to a very specially constructed mass email someone else did (and who didn't share it with the rest of staff because reasons). He's also cranky because I didn't have a piece of information ... which was sent directly to him and he never passed on. Meanwhile, I'm tryng to pry out of him who he wants the message that ABSOLUTELY MUST go out first thing tomorrow to go to ... after about five requests, I'm still waiting on an answer to that one. He did tell me who to send the one I'm trying to construct to, although I don't have all the information for it.

I'm more tired than I usually am when I'm working under "normal" circumstances.

I'm HOPING that, since tomorrow's the last day, I'll be able to do some catching up and goof off a little.

In regard to the potato chip deliveries - we don't have that, but we do have Insomnia Cookies which promises to deliver WARM cookies at all hours of the night.

Hi, Suzi!

Ugh, Toddson. I hope you get a break soon.

I went out for an hour and a half and got a gift for my mother, a gift for my niece, cards, pez dispensers for the niece and nephew, and coffee for me and my father-in-law.

You know what sucks? When someone you interact with a lot turns to you to vent about stuff in their life, and you can see that they are making bad choices, but you know it's not your place to say anything, and they won't appreciate it if you do.

My new coworker has 3 kids. The middle one is being tested for autism, but in the meantime her issues have required that she be pulled from school and be home schooled. Both parents work, so the other one adjusted her schedule to be home 2 weekdays. The girl is thus alone for 3 days a week. On those days she does nothing but call my coworker so that he has to talk her down.

She's 11, so it's not like leaving a 6yo at home alone, but it's clearly not a good situation. And all I can do is put on my headphones when the phone starts ringing and then let him vent about it.

Yikes, that is not good at all, Volans. I'm hoping that he knows this is not a good solution.

Blech. Just canceled my classed for tomorrow. I can still barely walk, and now my hand and wrist are starting to feel a little numb, which I know means they'll be painful and swollen by tomorrow, which will mean that using my walker won't really be an option.

Stupid body.

Volans, that sounds like a terrible amount of freedom for that kid.

Hil, I'm sorry.

That sounds miserable, Hil.