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.

Wow, brenda, I am even more happy for you knowing that little bit of background!

So, my phone shut down sometime in the night and won't turn on and I presume it's that my one and only charging cable went bad but the reason I am telling you this is so you can understand how very silly I am for carrying around my phone and the cable all day long just in case it will suddenly decide to start working again. I did figure out how to set an alarm on my Kindle for tomorrow morning, though, so that's something.

My ears! My ears! How they burn.

I am occasionally (ok, rarely) here. But I finally have a manageable work schedule so I am hoping to stop by more often, or at least in more places than Movies. In any case, timelies everyone!

Yes, Dani is new e/em/eir pronouns.

Thank you for answering this question for me! I just proofed something for em and had to go back to my Christmas card to make sure I hadn't been missing this for years or something. (Which, let's face it, is very possible.) Most of our communication is by phone so it hasn't come up I guess? This is one of the downsides to not being on FB I suppose.

Former poster or poster in other threads Megan Walker also went to college with you all then, I think.

I can't believe I did not know this. I mean, I can, but I'm still surprised. I had no clue. Now I want to get out my yearbook. (D and I were in the same freshman dorm. D & S met at a party in my first place in NY and then that is how I met msbelle's brother, and, eventually, msbelle. She's the one that told me about TT I think. And then we went to the very first NY f2f together so we could have each other's backs in case one of you all was an axe murderer.)

Wait I know where megan walker went to college, I thought. Jen did you go there too? Maybe I’m remembering wrong.

You are not remembering wrong.