I was in NY and Kate P was in New England when I became good friends with a good meatspace friend of her's in NJ.

we both work in theatre, and it is a small world.

Theatre is always ready to remind us of just how small the world can be. It's rare that I want into a theatre at this point and don't find someone I know in some fashion.

Congratulations, Brenda!

smonster and I have a friend in common from the outside world, and someone from meara's old drag king circles was a friend of my brother, and the daughter of the minister of our church growing up. Small worlds!

Woo Hoo Brenda! Nice to get recognition.

Got my 2nd Covid shot. All the vaccination spots were manned by Firefighters today. Mine was super cute too. Last time it was a bunch of nurses. It is a county site so they must alternate different crews. Anyway, sore arm, but relieved to have that part behind me. I know it isn't time yet, but I am so ready to go back to being my huggy self. Oh well. Soon.

Brenda, who was that? I don’t even remember!

I still find it amusing smonster and I attended the same party before we knew each other, even though we never lived in the same state

Timelies all!

I'm sorry, msbelle.

Congrats, Brenda!

Phew, you guys, it's been a day.

So my manager S - who I talked to like two, three times a year the past couple of years - was apparently failing on the job for a while. Just before xmas someone called his manager J to say it seemed like he was struggling on a project. When the manager reached out to him he basically said "you should probably go ahead and fire me now". And then a lot started coming out about how very much he was just not doing.

Some backstory: Steve was the national lead for our proposal teams. We both used to lead a regional team and I'm fairly sure I was maneuvered out of the way when they decided to create the national leadership role several years ago. (It took me a loong time to get over my anger about the white male mediocrity of it all, and honestly I was pretty checked out for a while myself.)

This time, it was a competitive process with both internal and external candidates, and it feels pretty good to come out on top. It's different leadership too, and an expanded role. Now I gotta really step up my game. (Not least because I'll have three direct reports who also applied for the position. Eep)

[Edited to remove what I think is a deadname.] Their drag name was Pat Riarch, based in North Carolina. Now goes by Neeve Neevel, and I'm not sure about pronouns.

Yes, meara. I knew you went there. I thought you knew that about me, too, for some reason. I was there before you, though.