I lose control all the time. I am a yeller. But this guy needs to understand that he needs to back off all his former employees. We are all very much wanting to throw in his face that he is NOT OUR BOSS ANYMORE. To not have the self-awareness to know that you need to be away for a bit is remarkable to me.

Happy belated, Scola! I was not keeping track, because I had no idea you were older than me.

Fitbit still missing. I'm so mad at myself.

I'm also mad at myself for the amount of pain I woke up in--too much to drive, and I'm only working one project and attending one meeting today. I figure if you wake up with a tremor, don't drive.

People are leaving my boss out of things deliberately, and I'm bearing the brunt of it, it seems. It's hard to tell. We're very insulated. I hear things the people three levels above me in the org chart, and there's no indication that us and them have anything in common.

Okay, time for second breakfast. I'm trying to make a commitment to fruit salad.

Fruit salad is good stuff.

I have a meeting in 5 minutes, which is too early to call in, but I suspect I'll look up in ten minutes and go "oh crap"! OK, timer set.

Next question: So, I really really liked the haircut that Mac had in the Veronica Mars movie. But all the pictures I can find of it either aren't in closeup or are when she had it up and pouffed. There were a few scenes where you could definitely see the haircut more down, but there don't seem to be pictures. Any helpful suggestions? If I bought the movie, how would I make a screenshot of that particular moment on my screen, if I wanted to have screenshots to take to the hairdresser? (This is still a "maybe in a couple months" theoretical)

I lose control all the time. I am a yeller

Hence coxswain.

But for me in the classroom, I HATE letting the students know that they have gotten to me. Whenever kids say I am mean, I point out I rarely raise my voice. I do say mean cutting things instead, but it's a cold anger.

I sent an IM to someone on a call this morning congratulating him on responding to something that came up without the use of the words "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"

I yell at my kids, but never at work. And I'm working on yelling less at my kids.

I think I may have yelled at people occasionally as a small child. But I can't think of any time where I've yelled at someone since.

I sent an IM to someone on a call this morning congratulating him on responding to something that came up without the use of the words "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?"

I sometimes ask my boss to give me credit for restraint in responding to certain people.

Now I'm thinking of the time when a driver almost ran me down because he was looking to his left for cars instead of directly in front of him. So I ended up with my hands on his car's hood, running backwards (because I couldn't get out of the way in time) as he pulled out into the intersection.

I didn't yell then. Even though my life was in serious danger and yelling would have alerted the driver. That kind of freaks me out--I can't yell to save my life?

I don't yell at work ever. Like Kat, I feel it means I lost control and that means I'm not being effective. At home, I really only yell at our pets, and then only when required. Jason and I both came from first marriages where there were a lot of yelling and dramatic door-slamming kinds of fights, and both of us did not like it and tend to be pretty measured, even when we are having a big disagreement. Not that yelling and drama doesn't work for some people, because it does, but it's really not my cup of tea.