Yay erin, glad to hear your immune system is on the job. My 2nd shot is scheduled for March 4, and the next day is my regular day off, so I expect to just spend the day in bed...

ION, I started my new job as branch chief this week, and I'm already exhausted and stressed out. It wouldn't have been so bad except one of my team is out on maternity leave, and my boss who retired left nothing in writing on what the job entailed and how to do it. And I never learned anything about how the budget is built or what it covers, which is apparently a big part of it.

I know I could just call D and ask him but I'm afraid I'll start bitching at him rather than get any actual information. It's all just a lot. Plus I still have all my other work that I was doing before he retired, because there's almost nobody to give it to.

I gave up alcohol through to the end of February and I rather wish I hadn't...

Timelies all!

Woke up earlier than I needed to, for no apparent reason. That, plus Mr. S being annoying all day has led to me being a bit grumpy. (Right now he is on a Zoom session with Gary's mom while playing Candyland with Gary and Scoundrel-his stuffed kitty. :shrug:)

Yikes Consuela, that work situation sounds like a huge pain!!

I’m still wondering how I’m going to get a second dose...the clinic said “we won’t be doing clinics anymore at that point but we will email you about what to do”. So of course I am like “where is my email????” Even though I know they probably won’t send it for another week or so, I tilt heir clinics are over.

Supposed to do speed dating tonight. Want to just curl up on couch with pup and not do anything instead. But guess I better take a shower in a few....

Speed dating in person? Or what??

I gave up alcohol through to the end of February and I rather wish I hadn't...

Consuela, it's never too late to change your plans.

Here is how old we are, peers: Peter Kavinsky's father is Eliott from ET.

And here’s how wrong I am. I think both are hot and options.

Nah, that's fair. Noah C is a grownup.

I home tomorrow is a much easier day, erin. I am also scheduled for the 2nd shot on March 4th and hope to maybe get some reading done as I told everyone I am not doing anything through the weekend.

I'm sorry about the lack of information left behind, Consuela. I have always written down everything I do, partly because my memory sucks and I need the documentation for myself, partly because it makes delegation easier and I am all about delegation where possible. Being indispensable has never been on my goal list.

Consuela, sorry things were left such a mess. I often wonder about your nemesis.

Speed dating online and it is a shitshow

Ugh, Consuela. Bad, bad predecessor. What an impossible situation.

I also obsessively write almost everything down because I desperately don't want to be the only person who can do anything, and I don't want anyone left flailing helplessly if I get hit by a bus tomorrow. If precedent is anything to go by, though, there are exactly three people at my entire uni who would actually bother to read any of it. If I retire before they do, I'm definitely telling my boss that he must hire one of them to replace me, and no one else.

ION, my mom just got her first vaccine dose today and is lying on her couch feeling extremely lightheaded--she had no reaction at the time of the shot and made it home to her condo just fine, but got woozy on the elevator and had to crawl from there to her front door. So four weeks from today I'm going up to spend the weekend with her after the second dose, since that one seems to hit everyone harder.

IOON, I spent the afternoon hanging out with my deceased friend's mom who is also now my friend and a semi-mom, having tea and cookies and watching Roxanne, and I am very pleased to note the following: (a) overall, it holds up and is refreshingly short on the watch-from-the-hall how-could-we-have-ever-thought-it-was-okay-to-say-that moments usually so plentiful in '80s movies; (b) stylistically, it's just all so pretty, and I still yearn for both Charlie's and Roxanne's houses just as much as I did the first time, but oof all the men's outfits... as Buffy noted, not just dated but CARBON-dated, though the women's NSM; (c) Shelley Duvall is so charming, wry and thoroughly delightful and I wish she and Steve Martin had been cast as platonic soulmates/quasi-siblings in like 20 more films because I would have watched the crap out of them and own prints, mugs and t-shirts of all the fanart.