Sophia you are doing amazing.

Matthew's mom is anemic and from what she has said pretty anemic. She found out when she gave blood and hasn't been to the doctor, she hasn't changed her diet , and hasn't been taking iron supplements (they make her throw up). She was running the heat in August. And either she can't wrap her head around the fact I overheat easily or she is just ignoring it.

ETA

I'm sitting in a restaurant listening to someone who doesn't know who the VP is saying this is all made up

I just got mad because she said all the Democrats are acting like children because they didn't get their way in the elections and I should have said the current ones favor the Dems but instead I said she would read what is going on because Trump used threats to extort the Ukraine as well as made threats to people on Twitter.

I shouldn't have lost my cool but damnit follow current events.

Back to the house issue. I am pretty sure we are going to just be changing the thermostat a lot. His mom can keep her room as warm as she wants but she wants but that is over 85F so when she goes anywhere else in the house it is a shock of cold .

The biggest solution is to move but Matthew needs a to supplement his VA disability with income and he was working for his brother but it messed up his back more and he hasn't been looking for another job. He said he is trying to figure something out. I've been suggesting he make tutorials for YouTube for GTA or live stream and monetize it. I don't care but I can't live the way we are long term and the house is his mom's now so us moving is the only permanent solution

She sounds like a difficult mother, askye.

Ha! Todd, that was autocorrect messing with my post. Sigh. Nope. Just the good old-fashioned double-hung kind. We do have the fans on something like a thermostat, though

sj,we've got some time to think about screen use (beyond videoconferencing with the grands), but it's definitely something I've been thinking about. Gargoyles would be an Elementary-at-earliest show, probably. I think my priority is going to be avoiding advertising, but, as with everything in parenting, it's always a moving target.

I'm just gonna ~ma at everyone, since it seems like we could all use about 3 fewer things on our plates.

Timelies all!

No particular plans for the weekend here.

Autocorrect can be evil ... or highly amusing. It depends.

Sometimes both at the same time!

I am in my apartment. It has a lock! THe lock is brand new!

What a very exciting thing! I was a little nervous they would put the old lock back and/or forget to leave the key.

Woo Sophia! Congratulations on having the inspection scheduled, I know you'll be glad to have that behind you

I think I am finally beginning to calm the fuck down! I really think the therapist helped, even though it almost felt like we just really chatted. I even told her about you guys the first time, and then she asked me about it again. And we talked about Good Omens a bit too.

I kind of wonder if she wrote the fic with the therapist (only because the therapist Crowley visits is in Rochester NY!) But I am sure that is not the case, and I had to stop reading because I didn't want to think about her thinking about me.

I think the loss of one on one meetings with my old boss Sue, which were a joy, because she is the best boss ever, is one of my biggest problems. One on one meetings with my new boss a) never happen, because somehow I was never invited to them on my Outlook Calendar and b) if they do are just him giving me projects that I don't quite understand. And his advice is terrible. Anything he tells me to do about a situation is terrible advice. And he can't plan for anything in a reasonable way, so it is all last minute and slap dash and not enough time. And he is both very macro level, which is sort of fine, and then extremely micro level (like wanting a word table instead of excel). And frankly, we are probably too much alike (except for I can make a plan). And Sue and I were like the perfect team because we had different strengths but shared values, and this all started with her trying to get me more money and a higher level

They are actually thinking of making another, more Sue-like person (but less uptight, so sort of even better) the director of our little team, and I love meeting with her and also the other member of my team, both who are faculty members, give great advice, and praise me. I am a praise hound. We are all sort of frustrated with him because he is so visionary, but he literally cannot read people and just plows over them and also he is so disorganized and triple booked and misses important things. He needs a keeper. I do not want to be his keeper, and he has no admin specifically for him, because he is not a Dean, just a director.

Also, none of us technically report to him, because our school is weird and the only people who can have direct reports are Associate Deans and Administrators. So all the admins who work for Program Directors "get their work and direction" from the Program Director, but report to the Administrator. The faculty and I report to the Associate Dean.