Do you think Matilda learned the lesson?

If you're asking if I traumatized her enough to check her email daily, then I would say yes.

Yay, Matilda!

I just watched the drone on Mars and I'm just...that's Mars and I'm looking at it just as if it was somebody's camera on their porch showing me a raccoon. Mars!

I am thinking about picking up lunch on the way back from getting Stabbination #1 tomorrow (because my appointment is a county over so it's an excuse to get exotic foodstuffs from the other side of a bridge) and one of the restaurants I was considering has sweet potato tots so it is a string contender.

I was thinking more general than that, along the lines of "showing up is half the battle." Related also to those kids who do their homework, but don't turn it in, so get no credit for the work. Related also to "bravery is doing it anyway, despite being afraid." Although, "be brave, check your email" doesn't have the same ring to it.

Easy to say, often not so easy to do. I've only summoned up the nerve to do some things (both personal and at work) in the past few weeks that I have been putting off for quite a while.

I always tell people - and remind myself - that the first time you do anything is the hardest.

So happy for Matilda and parents! Phew!

I just watched the drone on Mars and I'm just...that's Mars and I'm looking at it just as if it was somebody's camera on their porch showing me a raccoon. Mars!

I know! It is like the coolest RC vehicle ever. The response time in getting video back is just mind blowing.

I was thinking more general than that, along the lines of "showing up is half the battle."

I think the bigger issue for her is that she was just resigned to being rejected again. None of her other friends even got to the interview round.

She had given up on hoping for things for herself.

I always tell people - and remind myself - that the first time you do anything is the hardest.

I am cognizant that I didn't have anything like a Zoom job interview when I was 14. Or really any kind of real job interview until I was between HS and college.

Also, her SotA application process was as involved and stressful as a college application. Which I was a barely able to do at 18, much less 13 when she did hers.

So happy for Matilda!

Congrats to Matilda on getting the job, and to the Zmayhem household for surviving the process!

A co-worker shared this article today, and it really resonated with me. Languishing is *exactly* how I feel lately.

Oh, wow, that's a term I need to know