Graduation here today. Am trying to get my shit together and write all the words before I have to go be has-her-shit-together-mom. My face feels like someone stuffed a hedgehog in my sinuses. And I do not have my shit together. I just hope certain members of my family are on time for the ceremony.

Doing hair here too, Burrell. Lower School ends at 4th here, so next year is middle school for HPF. I am amazed and so not ready. She is though. She's totally ready.

Ok. To take afrin or just to drink this bottle of hot sauce and hope it helps me breathe.

Middle school in 5th? That seems crazy young to me, but I'm sure I'm just projecting because my girl is such a young 10yo. Happy culmination to HPF!

Fifth grade seems young to me, too - I didn't do middle school until 7th!

Doing well Ginger, how about you?

The annual mini-Sturgis takes over my street starting today, so I think I'm going to pick up Pacific Rim from the library and turn the motorcycle noise from a bug into a feature.

Smelling like beef seems bad.

My work is making me crazy--big deadlines coming up but we don't yet know exactly wen and my boss is trying to micromanage in a way that really won't help. Ugh.

And yes, many of the people I work with work from home...not sure about IT type people though.

Matt! How are you doing?

Ginger beat me too it. Seems like it has been a while since I saw you post. Busy watching hockey?

I didn't do middle school until 7th!

We didn't have middle school. Finished elementary school (without the fanfare of graduation) then on to high school. t old

I went to elementary school until sixth grade, then started junior high in seventh. The year I was in eighth grade, though, the junior high became the middle school, and the sixth graders started going there rather than the elementary schools. (Our junior high/middle school and high school were one building. Roughly, the jr. high/ms used the front of the building, and the high school used the back of it, but there was just one auditorium, one cafeteria, one library, and a few other things that were shared. This also meant that we had to eat lunch in shifts, since the cafeteria could only hold two grades worth of kids at a time. When I was there, seventh and eighth graders had lunch at 10:27. We were starving by the time school was over.)

What Hil said for me, although our junior high was 7, 8, 9 and our high school was 10, 11, 12.

ita, have you ever looking into partial disability?

Hand to God, I was thinking of applying for short term disability yesterday, but they beat me to the punch. I guess this is better than them firing me after I got back. I don't know the full meaning of partial disability, but I sure will look it up.

Kat, send me whatever you've got. No one believes "fast learner" on a resume, but I ain't lying. Maybe if I also added "effective bullshitter" it would help?

In fact, if anyone knows of anything PM/Business Analyst, I'd be eternally grateful for a ping (applied to lisah's link already, despite location).

There seems to have been a peculiar distrust of working from home for most of my jobs. It's been possible since, like, 1999, when I spent that month working from home because of mild chicken pox. But even if you deliver, it doesn't seem to matter--the crackdown at the place that just let me go was because the new owners walked around and saw too many empty seats.

NOW THERE ARE MORE. Does that fix things? Including the cubes clusters adjacent to me, which seat 12 in total, there are 4 people working now. Used to be 8.

It's definitely a time of major change--the entire reporting structure between the CFO and the group I was in has changed--all new people. At the very least my manager isn't managing people anymore, which is great, because she wasn't good at it.

Small positives.

I still don't even understand junior high. I didn't know it was variable? I started high school a year early (blame my mother's silver tongue and mathematical prodigy skills which they hoped were inherited) at 11. Seems perfectly normal to me. Americans? Still strange. Canadians? Even more confusing.

We didn't have middle school. Finished elementary school (without the fanfare of graduation) then on to high school

We had 8th grade graduation from grammar school WITH fanfare. I don't remember if family members went, but there was definitely a ceremony. I'm pretty sure the building is still K-8, although I did see a banner up on the wall last night that said something about middle school.

It's definitely a time of major change--the entire reporting structure between the CFO and the group I was in has changed--all new people.

Wow, that is major.