Surely if Joss has PR people they aren't going to let him do follow-up interviews with the journalistic hornet's nest that first interview has stirred up!

In other news, the Uproot pro lint shaver I just bought is the closest thing I've ever seen to actual magic. In less than an hour I was able to clean my office rug to the point of looking almost new after removing enough cat hair to make a third cat.

In still feeling pathetic news, we have a house showing today that conflicts with DH having a game to coach so he is going to drop me across the street in a pavilion at the park and secure the dog, then 15-30 minutes later the realtor will walk over and bring my dog home since my body isn't up to being tugged by the dog yet. Can't believe Brendon asked him to do that, but he was all 'no problem' about it. I'm sure any of my neighbors would have done it too, but handled I guess.

In non-pathetic news, the 'guys' play a pool tournament that lasts a full year. Most Sundays they come here and shoot for many hours and record the sets on a spreadsheet. Toward the end of the year they missed some weeks so they extended the time to allow for 2 sessions in January 2022. See me rolling my eyes at them and mocking them. Soooo, I bought some 2022 balloons and a Big Happy New Year 2022 banner and will decorate on Sunday. I amuse myself sometimes. DH won last year in a squeaker. They play sets each week with the first guy to 10 winning the set or some such, so many thousands of games a year. The 3 of them are all insanely competitive.

Down to only 13 peer reviews! This is exhausting!

Oh, I'll have to try one of those lint removers on a rug the cats have used a few times as a scratch pad. I think that might work.

Down to only 13 peer reviews! This is exhausting!

I recommend doing the last ones using fridge magnet poetry words.

That is so many reviews Jessica. Goodness!

On Wordle: I have gotten the word 2 days in a row!! Today in the 3rd row!!

I have picked up my package from my much more local UPS access point. I hope that I don’t get anymore UPS packages until after thaw.

It is slightly warmer today & I am awaiting my bus at a stop with an actual shelter.

So far: not a bad day.

That is so many reviews Jessica. Goodness!

I've already done at least that many - I don't know exactly because every time I finished one the total kept going back up as new requests came in.

I managed wordle in 2, for the first time today—lucky starting word got me the last letter and a couple others but also eliminated some of the normal combos you’d expect with one of the letters and voila!

Also, I have a meeting with my “mentor” today and I know she wants to talk about what I want to get out of our mentorship—it was assigned. She’s higher up in a slightly different department. And I’m honestly not sure what I want! Like, to know more about possible career options in the future and how to get there? Not sure she’s totally the right person because she may not know? And I’m not really sure what I want career wise other than to not stagnate and not feel resentment towards people who are like Vice Presidents and younger than me, even if I don’t necessarily want to be a VP? (Especially because the easiest route to get promoted is through a job I have zero interest in doing)

We used to have monthly "program reviews" in which the various departments ... um, teams, would report on what they'd been doing, how things were going, financial status if part of their mission. Some people would go on forever about how great they were, some would sensibly do short informative presentations. One woman, frustrated with the whole deal, threatened to do her presentation in interpretive dance. Perhaps Jessica could try that.