JZ, force them to go to webex or whatever online equivalent you use. Seriously, that is serious bullshit.

I'm using that word a lot. Not good.

Ugh Maria, that is a complete PITA. AND it kept you from drinking tonight! Unfair!

I spent the day running around TCB but feeling like I only took care of the smallest parts. Argh. I no longer know how to adult.

I want to bike out and will eventually, but the bike needs a tuneup as well as reflectors and lights and other stuff to make sure I don't get crushed by early drivers, so definitely no way to do it by tomorrow. Maybe next Tuesday, though.

I think it's 25-30 min. by bike, which should be manageable. I'm just concerned that the bike is a speedless, gearless cruiser and there's one serious bastard of a hill, and consequently I must have access to a shower once I get to work or they'll just send my steaming overly-moistened self straight home again.

It's just one day a week, I keep telling myself (the meeting was canceled last week so I had no idea of the uncongenial shuttle schedule until just now).

It's already about halfway online already, but there's also a bunch of unavoidable paperwork which is never, ever ready for processing before Tuesday morning.

Agree that it's an absurd commute, JZ. Ptooey!

JZ Cody rides his bike to work everyday. He ends up stashing a change of clothes at work for when he gets there, but no shower. If you want, you can call him or email me/him and ask about how to make it work.

Ugh, JZ, that is utterly ridiculous.

Bullshit is a good word and so useful, Sara. It totally applies to many of our days today.

I got nothing else.

I usually hate online mtgs with the heat of a thousand suns but that's more because the meeting runner sucks and people are stupid about how to behave in them (I run mine like a fucking drill sergeant.) But there's a definite place for them. And worth looking into forcing that Tuesday paperwork into a place where it cooperates (aka, making the hold ups paaaay.)

It's one thing to choose a longer commute for your own reasons, but to have your workplace move to a less convenient location to the extent that you have to get up at a ridic early hour on the regular is really just unfair.

Argh, yeah. How many miles is it by bike? If you start riding it regularly and it's just one bastard hill you'll probably be able to do it without breaking too much of a sweat soon enough.

Still, I'd propose to the meeting organizer that, given the change in the commute for everyone either the meeting time be moved to later in the day or that the deadline for submitting meeting materials be the previous afternoon.

My whole last week was taken up with organizing and reorganizing meetings. ugh. It was so bad that I had stress dreams about it all weekend. But, I started seeing a new and awesome therapist, mostly to deal with my work unhappiness. She wants me to visualize having a new job by June (specifically riding my bike to my new job!). We'll see how that goes!

My commute tripled last year when the company moved to the brand new shiny building. One reason I want to move, the place I'm looking at is halfway between work and wehre I am.

You PM, lisah?