Good luck, Consuela. I think it'll be fine provided there will be strict limits on any interaction with your former nemesis.

My resolution this week is to keep up with Natter.

And it's only for a month. I can do a month, right? Right...

You can do anything for 10 seconds (tm Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)! A month is just a series of 10-second periods!

My cold I've had since last Friday was getting better. I took all of Sunday doing nothing! And I stayed home Monday. But by yesterday afternoon I had no voice and my throat was super sore. It feels better this morning but I coughed all night and I'm going to stay home and try not to talk. I didn't bring my work laptop home so my ability to work is a bit limited. Not calling in for meetings will actually allow me time to try to get some write-y work done.

Transgender teen comes out at his Jewish day school, and the school and the rabbi organize a welcoming ceremony for him.

Good stuff!

I am having a week where I wish I would get sick instead of this general malaise I am feeling. Bleh. And I'm going to a conference on Saturday. I should have taken vacation this month like everyone else!!

I am having a week where I wish I would get sick instead of this general malaise I am feeling.

I know that feel.

I got to work before 8am this morning, which is an adulting miracle for me.

Good job!

I am trying to get back on top of things, but there are too many things! I would like to run away from them instead.

You know when you can't ever type a particular word correctly even though you know how to spell it? I am having that problem with "evacuation," and unfortunately, I have to type it approximately one million times! (Although, it came out right on the first try that time, so maybe I'm actually over the hump...)

I got to work before 8 also and it was DRAMA. Not because of my earlier than normal arrival, but because an employee and my boss got into it this morning, had words - there was cursing -, and then the employee pushed boss (this would be 2 bosses up for the employee) like a chest bump. Wha?!? Physical contact is no no no no. So he's fired and boss has to spend the day in a training session something on dealing with frontline conflict. Drama!

ION, I looked at local meet-ups last night and only found a couple of things that look interesting. The idea of taking time for me and just using it to go to yoga, or get a massage, or go to events, is very appealing, but it is not going to get at the core of my unhappiness which is that I have no people here. Of course I immediately think of reasons why none of my ideas or these meet ups will change that, after all, I have met a few people I get along with, but they live in another town, or they are always busy, or or or. Hmmmph

I look at local meetups also, msbelle, and then talk myself out of each one.

Can I get a little test~ma for K-Bug? Today is her big final that covers the whole PT program she has been working on for the last two years. Then she has a clinical and in July she takes her boards to get licensed.

Hey, what's that website that has great advice about worklife/job stuff for women??

There's a job listing I'm interested in responding to but the listing says:

All candidates must include a cover letter identifying their specific business analyst experience as it relates to the job description along with salary requirements.

I know I've seen good advice about how to approach requests for salary requirements in the early stages of the hiring process but I can't remember where! And the whole idea of writing a cover letter is filling me with terror so am stalling until I find that advice!