Oh, I know, Steph. It's just worse when they're your own, because they won't go away!

I don't think that's unreasonable at all, Theo.

I am down with slower, but not with buses.

That's OK, you can just take a different train that goes the long way around. Instead of the A to Howard Beach, you'll need to take the E to Jamaica (Queens, that is).

I wonder if any of the staff brought their kids. I haven't actually been across the hall today. Nobody asked about it so I'm guessing not.

I'm not interested in working. Much of my family is headed to Nebraska where my cousin is getting married this weekend. They are actually getting married on a bridge that spans Iowa and Nebraska with the family on the Nebraska side and the ceremony over the state line where it is allowed. Celebrations after in Omaha. Here's hoping it won't be too long before their marriage is recognized in their home.

Oh wow, that's a pretty neat solution, Laura! I mean, sad it has to be done but...

I have no interest in bringing them to work, nor do I want to spend more than 10 minutes with someone else's kids at work

This, plus I literally can't do my job when there are little kids running around. I've got a bunch of stuff in my inbox that I can't respond to until they're gone because it's not suitable for children.

Is it unreasonable for me to desire my roommate to actually say 'goodbye' to me when she leaves the house in the morning so that I know she's gone?

I don't know. I always tell my roommate when I'm, like, leaving town, but I don't usually tell her when I leave the house unless I'm doing something out of the ordinary like going to a midnight movie premiere.

I'm on leave but my office smartly rescheduled its Kid day to the summer, when kids don't have to be taken out of school, aren't in mandated testing, etc.

Yeah, to be honest I would find that kind of irritating Connie. But I don't pretend to having the best social graces.

Bon!

Can you devise some kind of In/Out signal, Theo, so you can know if each other are around?

The undefined~ma I asked for the other day? I have been told that the desired result has happened but I'm still in the "I'll believe it when I see it" wait and see mode.

Met with the alternate advisor. She was ok - not the same approach to CJ but some new ideas. We will see what happens. My favorite part is when she asked what motivates him. I thought being suspended from active search and rescue would have been the key motivator to get his grades up, but 4 months later, here we are with no improvement. The fact that he can't be bribed should be a good thing, I guess, but arrrgggggg.