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.

Whew. Speed dating was exhausting (21 rounds! though a few people didn't show up) and the setup/platform was confusing. But maybe one or two were possibilities? We'll see.

JZ, the last time I watched, I kept thinking "Can't I just have two hours of Charlie and Dixie lovingly snarking at each other? I would watch that every day."

Jim has apparently been earwormed with Lalo's "Symphonie Espagnole" for days, and we must listen to it now. At bedtime. This is not conducive to drifting off to sleep, especially when it's Perlman wailing away on the solos.

My nemesis is -- shockingly -- STILL working, although I believe she is over 75. Somehow she managed the switch to WFH although she's never been very competent at the computer stuff. I keep waiting for someone to realize how toxic she is, and I think her boss knows, but she's the only halfway competent person on her whole team (which is not my team), so they keep her there just so they can get anything at all done.

I spent a couple of hours working this afternoon, and that made me feel better, because part of the problem is during the week there's too much going on for me to concentrate on any one thing. So I was able to get something done and send some emails off, and I feel a bit better.

Better enough that I made the dough for my favorite nutty chocolate-chip cookies, and put it in the fridge. I'll bake the cookies tomorrow.

Our aunt, who is in her late 70s, is back working as an RN at the large city hospital. She has permanent heart damage from her Covid experience, and broke her ankle while at home in recovery for several months. BUT, she went back to work at the hospital for her healthcare coverage which is far better than Medicare. Although she is back as a floor nurse they have put her in a largely desk type position and are closely monitoring her vitals and stuff. She has worked there for something like 50 years so at least I am sure the powers that be will watch her closely.

Our healthcare system is so fucked up.

Hey Buffistas, my 20-year-old nephew has been diagnosed with Hodgkin Lymphoma, and his treatment begins this week. I seem to recall people noting different things like ginger candy, that help alleviate nausea.

I want to send him a little gift pack. (I will likely be sending it through Amazon, because that's all the spoons I have right now.) I would appreciate any recommendations you might have for things like ginger tea, ginger candy, OTC remedies, and [other things I'm blanking on right now].

Thanks.