It sounds right up my alley I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

I feel like I recently watched something and wanted to ask your opinion about something to do with the costuming, Sophia, but I can't remember what it was. So that's entirely unhelpful.

Work dump: Yesterday I started organizing data from raw data we have been getting since 11/28. Today I am writing up the process document of how to do it, step by step with pictures and links to the various documents. It’s going to take forever and I am dragging my feet. I’m stuck doing this because the people that should have done it, don’t get it or don’t know how. Anyway I’m being asked for reports that are based on this data and I could NOT figure how the data was being processed. I honestly do not think there was a method, just higgledy piggedly being entered ALL BY HAND (no formulas or linking of spreadsheets was happening) in many different places. No notes. I’ve found duplicate files, duplicate entries. I’m not sure all data was even counted because there was NO tracking of what was done (well maybe there is a handwritten something somewhere, but fat lot if good that does the group when we are all working from home).

msbelle, keep a summary note to be included in your performance review, and consider notifying the managers of the people who *should* have been doing this better.

Timelies all!

Mr. S has decided to get into pajamas already, even though one of the neighbor kids is over. Now we have to convince him he cannot go outside in said pajamas. Oy.

I am going to take this process document in to work this week to be an attachment to my performance review. It’s 5 pages long so far snd will probably be 12-15 when done to document how to get all the numbers they want. Then these next few weeks we can start refining it and finding efficiencies.

Basically no one documents things like they should right now. Too much coming too fast, but it’s a huge problem. And I don’t think it is a skill set that some of the coworkers have.

Sheryl, can’t he just put a coat on over the pajamas? I do.

Uuuugggghhh msbelle. Good for you for taking the bull by the horns, I guess, but that sounds like a huge mess.

I am one ep in on Murders and it is charming, so that’s my plan for today. In between random puttering around, I suppose.

I copied down what to watch TV notes for a bunch of year-end lists off AV Club and elsewhere. I haven't *seen* these but they are recommended:

‘Call My Agent!’ (Netflix) A comic soap opera, a melodramatic comedy — the elements are in perfect balance in this French series about a tempestuous Paris talent agency that is always on the brink of implosion. The comedy comes in because everyone is always working an angle; the sentiment because at the end of the day, the agents at ASK really do care about their clients and one another. The fourth season maintained the show’s method of simultaneously satirizing and affectionately fetishizing those A-list clients, many of whom appear as themselves — Sigourney Weaver asking an agent to slice her breakfast pastry, Sandrine Kiberlain negotiating a midlife crisis by embarking on a career in stand-up. The headwinds for ASK were worse than ever, though, and melodrama had the upper hand; the season ended with what was clearly meant to be a series finale. Now that a fifth season (and a film) have been ordered, the writers eventually will have to come up with another way to end the series. (Streaming on Netflix.)

‘In My Skin’ (Hulu)

Gabrielle Creevy pulls off a difficult trick in this kitchen-sink coming-of-age story set in Wales: She keeps us on the side of a teenager, named Bethan, whose defenses are so forbidding and so constant that she can be very hard to put up with. The second and final season of Kayleigh Llewellyn’s BBC Three dramedy took the smart, sarcastic, self-hating Bethan through high school, and through another harrowing series of ups and downs with her bipolar mother, played with heartbreaking grace by Jo Hartley. (Streaming on Hulu.)

Maid (Netflix)

I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson (Netflix)

“City of Ghosts” (Netflix)

For All Mankind” (Apple TV+),

“The Great” (Hulu),

I have a friend who loves Sex Education on Netflix, and also Young Royals.

Sophia, let me put in a plug for The Expanse, which is cool on many many levels, but the one that might make it click for you are the women who are movers and shakers of the plot, with all kinds of agency. I highly recommend it!