one of the board members pounced on it and said "I'll keep you on the board as a secretary!" and made it sound like a privilege and I wanted to say "No hell no I want off this board," but how do you do that in front of a bunch of people without looking like a dick?

I'm pretty assertive but I would totally have done the same thing as you. They put you in a super awkward position!

Totally understand that, Tep. I hope you can manage to resign without too much trouble.

I have, according to my phone, averaged approximately 9 hours of sleep a night in the last week and it is NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH. I actually did take the afternoon off yesterday and went home and slept for a few hours, read a little and slept all night and waking up this morning is still not entirely happening, to be honest. I know that in the last month I had a period of time when I felt actually well and it was amazing. Presumably that will come again. I wish I knew something about the cause and effect of it all.

I love that in my neighborhood's Nextdoor posts there is a post about a Full Moon Goddess workshop. And I am *totally* NOT making fun -- what I mean is, there are not too many other neighborhoods in conservative old Cincinnati (maybe NO other neighborhoods) that would have a post like that.

There was also a recent post about "I lost my chickens; here are pictures of them in case they turn up in your yard." Stuff like that is a REALLY nice balance to "Shooting in front of XYZ apartment last night" and "Drug deal on ABC Street -- pictures attached."

Unspecified~ma, Tep.

Much vague~ma.

Unspecified ma~ Steph!

I'm pretty assertive but I would totally have done the same thing as you. They put you in a super awkward position!

Yeah, me too.

I helped get 2 ppl registered to vote this year. Not the door to door registration that I would have liked to do, but 2 more than I have ever done before. I hope they both vote.

ION the Tampons for Trump FB post. I would do get behind some mass effort to flood Trump/Pence offices with something signaling the backlash they have wrought.

Lunch with the Managing Director was pretty nice. I ended up sitting next to him because I got there a couple minutes late and he was even later, so that was where the empty seats were. Did not have an earth-shattering marketing idea or whatever to share, but good to have the face to face time, I suppose.

~~ ma to Tep for all your needs.

And that was really rude and a bad position and I don't think many people would have been able to say no under those circumstances.

Yeah, I am quite assertive and I would have said yes.