Woke up two hours early, couldn't get back to sleep. Thanks, covid.

I had the flip side of that -- could not fall asleep until after 3, maybe closer to 4. Not real happy about being awake now.

I keep catching up, and starting to post, and then get distracted. Oh normalcy, how I miss you.

Wrote to the siblings and asked them what they thought about a mini T'day meal outside. I think it will be fine. My brother is generally lax and irresponsible about his health, but my sister has been ultra-safe. He doesn't actually go anywhere anymore except work because his mobility is limited, and probably thinks Covid is a hoax because he loves conspiracy theories, but he will keep to his end of the table because he loves his sisters.

eta: I do kinda like that the board doesn't announce that I had to edit a couple times to correct stuff.

This might belong in Streaming, BUT I figured you could use a little something cheerful: new Netflix show about dog dancing and other, um, niche competitions.

New name I came across today in employee paperwork: Ameizyn

Maybe I'm amazed.

It also means I have skills for this. One thing I learned in my DBT therapy is that a lot our bad coping skills that cause problems started out as useful ones. They served a purpose but then things changed and they became a negative. I'm starting to feel like some of this negative coping mechanisms are coming back around to useful ones.

askye, I was saying it in a joking way to Teppy, but I really have been thinking about that. For me, I think the trick will be using those skills in the right concentration at the right times, but not for everything all the time. I can quit anytime I want to!

New name I came across today in employee paperwork: Ameizyn

msbelle, I think someone's trying to use your workplace to get in on the Amiable Alliance.

New name I came across today in employee paperwork: Ameizyn

msbelle, I think someone's trying to use your workplace to get in on the Amiable Alliance.

I sort of think we might need to actively recruit this person?

All y'all getting isolated and such, I am slightly envious. I have not had much time to have the house to myself since Daniel began working from home 4ish years ago. At work, I used to have that house all to myself from 9am through 1pm-ish while people were away at their jobs and/or life enrichment programs. This was prime time for getting administrative stuff requiring concentration done. And for enjoying solitude. I have not had that time since the mass Safe At Home order in March. Folks there have returned to their jobs, but for fewer hours, and staggered times. This has seriously messed up my job performance on some of the most difficult parts of my work (other people's money stuff, WHY do they put a Humanities major in charge of money stuff?!)

So, no more solitude for this introvert. I have been coping with this by shutting myself into the bedroom for hours at a time and not even letting the cats in.

They told me the deployment process is automated. It is not automated.

Does that mean you are serving as the backup emergency reserve automaton?

Or would that be "automator"?

Something impressive-sounding for the résumé, anyway.