I’m almost up to the second row! Very exciting development.

LOL I have never heard of a skip level, but then I left that world over a decade ago.

Rooting for you to get through, David. Travel sucks sometimes and it’s not fair that it is sucking on top of the super sucky reason.

And honestly, can go right to bed in it as well!

I don’t like how nightgowns tend to ruck up around my rib cage. Plus I tend to sleep au naturel these days.

Knit boxers rule. They make them for women now, I get lots of ads on fb. Woxer, TomboyX, etc.

Edit to change tuck back to ruck. Autocorrect definitely has not read enough fanfic.

2:1 meeting thing

Yeah, my boss just has her jargon wrong. she asked me to set up 2:1 with her and the two new chief hires, so I set up a meeting with both of them and her and she called me and said "no, not both of them a 2:1 is when it is their 2nd 1:1 since they already have one with their Deputy Director." No, no nonono crazypants wrongheaded lady.

Same boss has halted progress on my application for another job in the Department for stupid and petty sounding reasons, but unofficially and I only know from off-the-record back-channelling. Now I am applying for positions outside of our Department.

remember when traveling was exciting? Those were good times for traveling.

Getting the rental car has always sucked, I'm pretty sure.

Good luck with everything, David.

Wtf, msbelle. Good luck with the outside the department apps

Flight arrived at 7pm.

Got rental car after an hour long wait and just got checked into the hotel 9:45.

I had to drive unfamiliar Atlanta freeway roads in the dark, dammit!

Also, this room is weirdly averse to working outlets. There isn't one at the desk and the ones by the desklight don't work, so my phone is plugged into the bathroom and my laptop is plugged into the light behind the chair.

I really want to crash but my nephew is weirdly a minute away so we're meeting at the hotel bar.

Hotel room outlets are always shit.

I mean, I get it, it's only been 20 years since people would be carrying devices they would want to charge and not just hairdryers.

So, as you might deduce it was no accident that my nephew was here. He drove from Savannah and is meeting his wife and son to drive up with them to see Judy.

I didn't realize his new job was in Savannah (as his wife is still in Orlando).

Tomorrow is his birthday and we both agreed that would be very poor form for his mom to die on his birthday so we don't think she will.

(Also she's not that close, but has started to sleep more, so it's coming.)

It's weird to have just left this space with my own family and now I have to deal with my nephew and niece's grief and process.