Kills me a little to know it's the one year anniversary of her getting her desk. She didn't even get a year of it to write. She wanted so much more.

Oof.

{{David and Matilda}}

I am so sorry for the loss of your sister so soon after JZs loss.

Double delightful Buffista birthdays to celebrate today!! Sophia Brooks & monster share this date of birth. May you both be celebrated as you so richly deserve. May the year to come bring unanticipated pleasures.

Thank you!! My birthday is starting off with a number of hopefully minor annoyances, and I am trying not to focus on those things. Woke up with possible pinkeye, currently missing work while at urgent care, swallowed a pill wrong so my throat is all scraped, couldn’t find my keys when they were in my pocket (a feat generally possible only while wearing dude shorts, which I am).

That kind of crap. So, breathing through it and trying not to worry that I might have to cancel my party tomorrow. I could really use a gathering of friends right now.

Happy birthday to Sophia as well!

Happy Birthday Sophia!

Happy Birthday smonster! Hopefully the day will improve considerably as it progresses.

Thank you!

Bacterial conjunctivitis, off to get eye drops. Party is a go; I am going to give people a heads up.

Happy Birthday smonster!!!

Happy birthday, smonster! And quick healing.

Happy birthday, Sophia!

Somebody please talk me into going to work? I’m taking tomorrow off and we are behind and it will be fine once I get there, I’m just feeling tired and my body feels heavy. If I stay here I will probably alternate napping and feeling sorry for myself and beating myself up.

Ye gods, task initiation and transitions are so stupid hard for me, even though I’ve restarted Adderall.

ETA I am going to eat lunch and then go. Putting on bouncy music… now.

Birthday happies smonster and Sophia!

As you might remember (I really want to use the phrase "as all the world knows" but this is not quite right for that), my department at work has been more or less continuously re-organizing for years now. Well, I got an official "offer letter" to sign yesterday for the job I have been doing since February and the title we agreed I should have in, I think, July and that I report to the boss I've had since May, so maybe we have some stability in the offing? All the other shuffling around did not have actual paperwork, just movement on the electronic org chart (and physical desk changes). I'm still halfway expecting that in a couple of months the whole company will decide to do some kind of strategy swerve and we will be tossed once more into flux, but it seems like there's a good chance that won't happen.

Incidentally, I'm told I am the only person in the department who went from being a Senior Something to being just plain Something Else with no modifier so now I am second guessing that decision a little bit, but my salary isn't changing so on the whole I don't think it matters and I can push for a promotion faster as I settle into the new role, so I do think it probably was the right move.

Bouncy Music Go wishes for you, smonster