Work was fairly quiet today for which I was very relieved. We still do not have a clean list of unregistered employees, but from what I can see I think about 1/3 of the employees are not registered and will need to get weekly testing starting end of the month.

Today was the last day for one of our division chiefs, so we are now down two chiefs across 5 division. Well actually 3, but in the third division, they have hired 2 new employees to cover the role of the chief, but without chief title, and those people are new to the County, so need time to get to know things.

Are you less itchy, msbelle? I hope so

I hope you’re feeling better, Matt.

I’m also looking forward to an extra hour of sleep Sunday.

Timelies all!

No special plans for the weekend. The usual grocery run tomorrow and I agreed to go into work on Sunday to process a sample.

I have been working on accepting that the fuzzy definition of “decimated” is an organic evolution of living language and therefore ok, but I just saw it used in a historical fiction summary and I still want to call that wrong.

After the time switch, it's going to be very dark still in the morning for Matilda to take the bus to school, and the stop is several blocks away. Not loving sending her out into city streets in the dark.

I know there are way more important things going on, but it's opposite, right? It will now be light in the morning and dark in the afternoon??

Tom, I just want to re-emphasize that it doesn't have to be abusive to end a relationship with someone you're paying for a service, no matter how long you've been working with them. You just have to not want to do it anymore. That's enough of a reason.

I know there are way more important things going on, but it's opposite, right? It will now be light in the morning and dark in the afternoon??

Hmmm, that sounds correct. That poses its own problems since she's hanging out after school but that's more of a known quantity.

For Tom, I have also had the experience of having a therapist fall asleep. It is demoralizing and just terrible. I was 22 so I fired the therapist by not showing up and am still resistant to prolonged therapy. So I think you are handling it well, and also you are not the only person this has happened to! (Although it might be weirder in person when you are in the same room!)

I had a very productive meeting with my MD. Turns out she thinks I'm not making this up for attention (always a fear for me) and I'm doing the right things, and we are tweaking the meds and seeing the therapist and I got to sleep in my own bed (! I've been "sleeping" in my lounge chair an hour or two at a time for a while now because apparently my bed is lava) for (counts) five hours! last night. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic.

I hope you're feeling much better, Matt. I've been nodding furiously at all the advice I would be giving had I been able to verbalize recently, Tom. Major adulting Dana, good for you. And yes, I have regret ita was not able to avail herself of newer and better treatments. JZ I agree so hard with what you said about people and internet people. I've been...distancing both. But that's gone on long enough now, and I need to take hold of things and be judicious about my own exposure and interaction, not just hide under the first handy rock.

Exciting news, Drew, glad good things are happening for you. And yes, we fall back, to keep the mornings light, but it makes evening come on at 3:30 in December and we hatesss it, precious. I like to sleep late, but in early winter I feel like I'm squandering what precious little daylight we get, so I must get up oh so aching early. And rainy days hide all the light. Give me June evening gloaming that goes on forever, fading only gradually into the dark.

Um. Sorry. Where were we? H and I watched Hugo last night. I'd forgotten just how enchanting a film it is. Oh! Suela, congratulations on an improved and bettering neighborhood. And a window seat in a quiet library sounds like heaven, these days.

I had a very productive meeting with my MD. Turns out she thinks I'm not making this up for attention

Wonderful to get precious sleep!! It is good to hear you got a good doctor who listens.

The doctors who discount their patients claims are the worst. My most favorite doctor told me that a number of his elderly patients clearly made appointments with him just because they were lonely and needed attention, but he felt it was just as important for their health to see them and provide that care as any other type of medical care. We were moving his office, like actually packing boxes and moving computers, when an elderly couple came in for a visit. They had the wrong date. His staff was turning them away when he insisted on seeing them. Sat them down in a room and talked to them about their concerns and took care of them. He was the sweetest.

He had a different attitude with medications too as his background was pharmacology before medicine. He would write his script with a normal sig, but explain to his patients, if you feel like X you only need 1 pill, and if you feel like Y you should take 2, and if you feel like Z call me. He strongly felt patients needed to have more control and spent a lot of time explaining things assuming his patients were intelligent adults.