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PROGRAMMING NOTE from the Author and Archivist


So obviously I just stopped blogging on this platform. I'll get back to it eventually. Or not. I'm taking a break from all social media. It seemed necessary for my mental health.

The last few years have been busy and … challenging:

- 2015 Happened.
- 2016 Let's call it The Lost Year. (Obviously words failed me.)
- 2017 about broke me. Literally. Mentally.
- 2018 was ridiculous, proving 2017 was just a warm up. (Good thing I was already broken so it couldn't hurt as much.#2018TrashCanFire I thought things were going okay, but maybe not?)

- 2019 was such a blur. I know there were highlights, but then stuff happened and carried into the next year...

- And then in March#2020 really took a turn. Who can even categorize 2020? Do we dare?


I kinda want a do-over of some of the last few years. But life doesn’t work that way.


So for now, I'm hunkering down. Regrouping. Trying to stay safe and sort some stuff out.


Stay safe everyone. Stay well.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

FREAKING AWESOME

Can I just say how much I love the Big J? LOVE it. LOVE LOVE LOVE it!

Not only do I get Fridays off in the summer, at least 7-9 of them, but this time because July 4th is on a Friday, we get Thursday, July 3rd off. Today, my love affair with corporate America just increased a tiny, tiny bit.

We had a "birthday" lunch outing scheduled today that turned into the whole department going to picnic in Central Park (all of us! -- that never happens)! After a glorious hour and a half of basking on the lawns, we didn't want to come back, but we forced ourselves. Upon returning, the senior manager who ate with us (another first) decided that we should all leave .... at 3:00 p.m.

FREAKING AWESOME.

(Not to gloat or anything, sorry other folks. But after over a decade in the %#@%*(& trenches, my heart is being healed by small acts like this!)

OUT OF HERE!

WEEEE Four day weekend, here I come!