Thanks everyone. I can't remember the last time my Winter/Spring was this busy. It's very good, just unexpected and a little exhausting. It doesn't help that I seem to be fighting a mild cold right now.

I'm totally an asker. I apologize to guessers, but I tend to think that that is the kind of wooly-headed thinking that leads to getting eaten.

Good luck, ND!

He had anger issues, and a few months later, at my new job, I was like "oh hello don't hire him!!"

Perfect!

I want to think I'm an asker, but then when an asker DOES ask me something, I always assume it's an order, not something I could say no to. So I think that makes me a guesser.

I just always feel like a slacker, which I know is a more than a little crazy, but it's how I inevitably feel.

I think I'm an asker, but when someone in any kind of authority asks me something, I tend to assume it's an order. Except not with my current boss C, partly because she has a very easygoing personality and partly because she was promoted from our group when it was decided the overall director had too much on her plate to manage my team. So I tend to view C as an ally and an advocate, far more than with any previous boss.

I have been walking around with my sweater on backwards all day. Just noticed.

At some point in high school we were wearing V-neck cardigans with the buttons on our backs.

You were being retro.

Today is draggggggging. I have been rotating from one pile of papers to another so I don't get too bored, but yeeeesh.

Filing, scanning, bill paying, note transcribing....on other days I might feel accomplished for getting rid of so many papers from my desktop, but today, just booooored.

I have filled a grocery bag with paper for recycling, so not a small amount of stuff gone through.

Still quite a bit on my desk. Yawn.

I grew up with guessers, and I'm more of a guesser with people I don't know well, but I'm an asker with friends/family and co-workers.

There was, and may still be, a school of thought in Business Psychology that you get better responses and less resentment from subordinates if you phrase your directives to sound like requests instead of orders. So, instead of "I need you to do x by y" one should say things like "Can you HELP ME do x by y" and that Office Space classic, "if you could do x by y, that'd be great". Bosses shouldn't sound like bosses, they should sound like collaborators! It's better for morale!

My sister adheres to this school of thought. Everything she asks for is "help me do this" and then "thanks for helping me!" I hate it. It's manipulative and disingenuous. (I think it's just become a mental habit by now. She once thanked me for helping her rake leaves...in MY yard.) When I say, I didn't HELP you, we did it together, she blinks at me and laughs like she doesn't understand the damn difference. I'm not your sidekick!

My issues, let me share them.

I've hit the "clear liquids only" part of my prep for tomorrow's colonoscopy. I will be so glad 24 hours from now when this is all over, hopefully with me having another few years' peace of mind that, family history notwithstanding, my colon is not currently trying to kill me.

My lucky I-don't-have-cancer shirt is ready (I've worn it to all my mammogram and colonoscopy appointments to date), and I've been promised Girl Scout cookies when this is all over--they arrive late in Seattle, and tomorrow is the first day they'll be selling at the local grocery stores.

24 hours to Thin Mints and Samoas...