Gossip and Tales for Other Times

This has been an unambiguously stressful week at work. I'm about to lose my dedicated assistant at work, as my current assistant, M, is dropping to barely part-time to go to grad school. I'm happy for her, but it's also stressing me the fuck out. Monday 9/25 is her last full-time day, and after that, she'll work afternoons for a couple of hours at the most.

I've largely let it slide that no one else in the office has trained to support me, and I suspect that's about to bite me in the ass. My partner needs a lot of support, maybe more than me, but I have definitely let her work and needs to overtake mine when it comes to every other staff person. We'll see what comes next: certainly, the remaining staff have resisted learning new things. (I realize that this makes it sound like I'm hard to work for and don't know it, but I really don't think that's true)!

Three more days with M around to help me out: Thursday, Friday, and Monday. To say I'm dreading this would be an understatement.

I've been increasingly frustrated by the demise of LJ (over a decade ago!) and missing the habit of daily journaling. The resurrection of this journal is a little experiment in finding/remaking the community I lost.