Does it play "Yakety Yak"?

More of a new age marimba. Though I guess you could play Yakety Sax on marimba. But then it would need to be retitled Mumbly Marimba. I may be overthinking this.

Argh. I hate walking into Monday morning and it’s a work shitstorm. I mean, luckily not one I caused but still one I have to handle the consequences of, so….Joy.

Does it play "Yakety Yak"?

That's an excellent idea

I have too many reminders on my phone, possibly. I have certainly gotten too comfortable ignoring notifications and reminders.

Okay, we're confirmed for our infusion on this Friday, and I have booked our hotel and flight.

We're flying First Class. I don't know if they'll reimburse us for the full First Class amount, but I'll happily take the Economy Class reimbursement.

Just trying to find ways to make the travel less onerous.

Our hotel is directly across the street which is good because the infusion starts at 8:15 and will run for 10 hours. The first two times down JZ will have extended time at the hospital as the trial wants to measure the level of meds in her bloodstream over time.

After those first two trips, we can just do regular infusions (which take about 4 hours).

ION, we're headed to the Apple store to buy me a new laptop, since we're going to be on the road for the next couple years.

Are you signed up for the relevant airline/hotel/transportation rewards programs?

David, Alaska airlines has a flight pass program in CA that might be a good thing.

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Are you signed up for the relevant airline/hotel/transportation rewards programs?

I'm looking at Delta Skymiles right now!

David, Alaska airlines has a flight pass program in CA that might be a good thing.

Noted!

Thank you expert travelers.

That is a lot of travelling to do, I hope it all goes as smoothly as possible.

Today was a pretty good day- work went really well over all. And then at the Recraft thrift store I go to all the time, one of the volunteers and I have been chatting about various things we do, she has a gelli plate but has been scared to use it and I've been encouraging her so.....tomorrow I'm going over to her house for some crafting fun.

This is literally the first time in years I've done something with a friend and not a romantic partner or family member. It's been a long time. Which kind of feels sad and pathetic when I think about it but on the other hand-- progress! for me! growth and stuff....oddly I don't feel anxious, that will probably hit tomrrow.

tomorrow I'm going over to her house for some crafting fun. This is literally the first time in years I've done something with a friend and not a romantic partner or family member. It's been a long time.

That's wonderful! She'll appreciate your showing her how to do the gelli plate. I'm so glad.

any tips on how to word accomplishments as a project-manager sort of person to both (a) show I did something but (b) not make it sound like I did all the work—sometimes I directed others to do it and other times worked as part of a team. Some things I can claim—like oh, I looked at this issue or these results and realized we needed to do XYZ and then had the team do it, sure. But a lot of other times when trying to think of examples of things I’ve done I end up saying we we we we.

If this is for a resume/interview, my advice is take all the credit you can (without being dishonest).

Bali! Wow! (I am going to London next week which I am pretty thrilled about, but I have a feeling you’ll be getting better vacation weather than I will.)

Holy shit, Suela, your license plate?

But people stealing license plates is one of those things I have only ever read about in fiction and hadn't experienced in real life even as an anecdote so sort of an achievement unlocked kind of thing

Same!

Stabile-meds-ma to the Zmayhems. You guys deserve all the first class everything.

I had a job interview Friday (my first since getting time-delayed laid off) and last night I woke up at 4am with an anxiety dream where the recruiter got back to me to say I didn't get the role AND made a point of specifically telling me how terrible and unqualified all the interviewers thought I was. Thanks brain! It was super easy getting back to sleep after that!