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.

In other news, I just had my first COVID-19 sinus swab test. I had feared it would be painful, but it was not. It was mildly uncomfortable, and took only a long five-count. Left me with a sensation that reminded me of times when I had a cold and blew my nose too hard.

Not looking forward to the next one, but won't be nearly so anxious about it.

Gudanov, has any mentioned lately that you are a wonder of coding and other stuff that is far beyond my comprehension that I don't even know what to call it?

Good luck on your results, dcp.

It's hilarious to me that isolating behaviors I used to have to work consciously to counter are now self-care best practices that I can brag about in therapy!

Also, that multi-thousand comic book collection that takes up a wall in my loft has gone from excessive clutter to a handy stockpile of entertainment media AND an organizing home improvement project to while away the time.