Dang, Theo! Um is right.

Ugh, flea. The more I hear about this whole thing the worse it seems. So so bad. Does mr. flea know how his personal path is going to go? Continuing good wishes for the water position

Who the heck has that kind of money, Theo?? Dang. I’d be like “cool dentures or soft food it is”

Flea that sucks so bad. Everything is awful. Ugh.

It's set over a period of a year or so. He wants to do an implant bridge over the missing front teeth (two broken stubs to come out, and then more bone buildup, then the implants and bridge.)

That's about half of the work, but the immediate stuff is $6K

I'm afraid it is rather a platinum level practice.

And it is still less distressing than what Mr. Flea and others are going through.

It is distressing in a different way but distressing nonetheless! Sending you all kinds of dental~ma finance-fu!

So, we have been advised that we no longer have to badge out to exit the building. Not really an update I was expecting, but okay. Curious what's behind that.

That's a little puzzling. If you don't badge out, the firefighters will think you are still in there.

I am sorry about Connie's beautiful smile and how expensive it's going to be, and Mr. Flea's work situation.

I took Emmett to the airport at 8am this morning. Marti the Medical Student said you could measure love by how willing you are to sacrifice sleep for someone.

But I rewarded myself with a delicious steak and eggs breakfast. And I still have the day in front of me. A day devoted to more house cleaning but there's room for a nap when you get an early start.

My university admin sent out an email that was essentially, "We know that there's an executive order banning anything (clubs, scholarships, whatever) that separates students by race. We know that a lot of things on our campus fall under that category. We're talking to our lawyers, and we'll let you know once we've figured out what this means." They're just about finished with year-long construction on an expansion of the African-American Cultural and Resource Center, which would be banned under this order.

Y’all! My coworker who is a manager but not my manager is leaving. He told me today and will tell our mutual boss tomorrow and we figure there’s a non-zero chance that our VP will walk him out of the building. He apologized for leaving me with more workload but I’m happy for him. He’s been looking for a new job for 10 months!

So, slightly less worried about losing my job I guess? Pre-emptively stressed about figuring out one more time what my job is/should be . . .