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.

Toddson, I've worked at places like that before and it was hellish getting through those meetings. Thankfully, my current employer has structures in place that mean our talent/program reviews are forced to be actually productive.

Truthfully I'm flattered that so many people want my peer feedback, and I want to support all of them, it's just a LOT and also I have pandemic brain and kind of don't remember last year well enough to say anything more constructive than "YES GOOD JOB NICE PERSON"

Our very first program review lasted all day, from morning until closing. Then CONTINUED the next morning. True, we'd never done one before and were unclear on the concept and had a new Executive Director who was trying to get us moving, but that was one long review. It did get better, although there were always those who just HAD to talk about their great results. One would use Power Point charts that were unreadable - tiny, no contrast with lots of tiny indistinguishable lines. One would show his charts more or less readably, but then he'd go off script and ramble. They were often excruciating.