Watching The Good Wife while I run some reports. Goddammit Carey!

So the person who's working on my mother's insurance was supposed to call at 10, but got caught up in some drama and didn't call until 12:30. Then she said she had an appointment to talk to someone else, but would call back in an hour. Has she called back? No. Do I have things to do away from the telephone? Yep.

Oy, Ginger.

I survived Kansas! Mostly by not leaving the convention hotel.

The con was a lot of fun, and again, one of the best organized AND laid-back conventions I've ever been to. Everyone was happy to see me, and I sold a fair amount of stuff without turning around and promptly spending my profits. Plus, the best Iron Man, War Machine, and STAN LEE cosplays I've ever seen: [link]

Apparently the real Stan Lee has met them, and asked the cosplay "Stan Lee" if he'd be willing to sub for the real man at some panels, so he could sneak off and wander conventions.

The real Stan Lee is actually pretty tall, I hear.

Timelies all!

Tired. I woke up when Gary got home last night, around 12:30. Also woke up for no apparent reason at 4:30 am. Bleah.

I am not normally inclined to headaches. My mother's insurance is giving me one. Now I'm waiting for my mother to call the insurance rep, because legally the call has to come from her phone. My mother is likely to putz around for half an hour trying to find stuff she thinks she might need. I would like to move on with my life now.

I'm sorry Ginger. That sounds like nine kinds of aggravating.

My dr's appointment has had startlingly little waiting, i didn't have time to get the thing you usually filled out while your waiting completed. Gonna be an hour before my prescription is ready, though, so good thing I have my kindle.

That sounds like a nightmare, Ginger.

Bossman is mishandling weekend volunteers, mostly middle and highschool kids trying to get their community service hours for graduation. He's giving them busy work and unnecessary work to keep them busy and happy, but not actually providing us a service because he isn't willing to trust them with real work or make the effort to give the guidance needed for the necessary work. So now he's thinking of downsizing the volunteer opportunities we offer because he finds it's a waste of his time.

So now I'm in the conundrum of "do I start working Saturdays to work with the volunteers" to eek the most out of their potential, while providing the community with ways for their kids to get their volunteer hours, or do I stand back, let my director make his choice, and refuse to be goaded into working weekends, which is part of the reason that the director position was tied with working Saturdays: to be an official presence for visitors, and to handle the volunteer groups.

I was more than willing to come in on Saturdays for May if the groups got too large (which they tend to do)_and I've gotten some amazing work out of these kids. But I'm not willing to take over the job just so the bossman can slack off.

I hate him. I really do.

We had a conversation this morning about the timing of something I needed to do that was weather dependent. We looked at the weather, he said Wednesday looked good for it. I sent out an email to our colleagues detailing what I'd be doing that Wednesday. He read the email and expressed his desire that I discuss such things with him first. I told him I thought we had. He replied that he wasn't quick to pick up on those nuances so I needed to double check with him. WTF?

How more clear could it be from "I need a non-windy, non-rainy day to do X" "Day Z looks good" "Hey y'all, I'll be doing X on day Z" "Why didn't you consult/confirm with me?" "I did! Five minutes ago!".

I'm going to get fired when I finally get caught double-fisting the bird at his back.

I also cleaned the greenhouse up a little this morning, which included plugs of dead plants left to dry out. He got miffed that I'd disposed of his dead, space-wasting plants. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to water them, you lose ownership. Which is another issue in that he is territorial. He doesn't want assistance with his stuff, and won't help with what he considers "mine". Please trust me to get when a plant is dead and is need of composting. Chill the fuck out.

He now wants a planting schedule. I want to laugh in his face that schedules in horticulture are a dream never to be realized. And since he hasn't done shit with my spring schedule given in the most vague of timeframes, him asking this is ridiculous. Will he be helping in this planting schedule? Or is it just me, without an intern, without a seasonal gardener, and now apparently without volunteers.

Who the fuck is working in the garden here besides me, asshole?