OMG Y"ALL!

I bet msbelle's boss hugged her, too!

Oops, we horrified msbelle.

Burrell, can you do me a favour and ask them how they define a sugar soda? You wouldn't have to engage, per se. Just inquire. No way that could go wrong.

Sorry, but no. Not engaging, remember? Also sorry to not respond earlier, I was teaching.

She also suggested we dance. I declined.

Bzuh? Yikes.

My boss did not hug me, my boss is out until Friday. I was in meetings from 8am to 4:30pm. lunch was with 2 Directors in my department I will be supporting in some aspects, so it was lots of business talk.

I got a Blackberry which is super exciting for me since I have been smartphone free for a year.

But mostly I AM TIRED. I have not worked a full 8-5 day in an office in well over 18 month. good gravy on a stick.

NEW JOB NEW JOB!

Yay!

Want to know something spooky? Starting this weekend, Pumpkin started doing her version of echolocation when she is upstairs alone going to nap on the spare bed. Mister Kitty's spot. And I just got his ashes home. Pure coincidence, but ooooOOOOOoooo.

She's also taught Devi to cry at the door when I'm out on the deck. She's teaching these guys all sorts of new habits.

helicopter parents in the office. WTF.

Note: I had a graduate student's parent call me about her internship and I refused to speak to the woman. I said that the issue is something her daughter had to handle. I was not going to speak to her mother about it.

If more employers set appropriate boundaries, this shit would stop.

Yay for new job, msbelle!

But mostly I AM TIRED.

I highly recommend lowering your expectations of what you can accomplish outside work during weeknights for at least the next few weeks. Any new job, new skill, new language, taxes the brain and you may find yourself sleeping more and just... kind of braindead. Give yourself time to adjust. /unasked for advice based on extensive personal experience

oh hell yes. I had frozen dinner for tonight, but just cats, dog, and getting trash out was what I needed to do the second I got home. Mac did set in and helped with dog, so YAY!. But doing dishes nightly/or each morning is going to be key so my kitchen does not get out of control. Or maybe we will use paper plates for a few weeks.

There is something already at the new job I am going to have to feel out. When I interviewed and even after the verbal offer it seemed pretty clear that I would be reporting to one guy, now it turns out I am reporting to another one. The guy I report to now is higher up so that may be good, but the woman who was his report did not leave, she just shifted to the guy it was initially indicated that I would report to. No official announcement has gone out yet about the change, so I was in the position of telling several people today, like people in payroll and people who manage expensing and whatnot and there were a few raised eyebrows.