Category: working girl
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Ativan + The Bear Hug ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My new cancer center at Froedtert has me seeing every possible specialist they have, and they have them all! Next week is the liver clinic, but this week was all about veins. I had another venogram and angioplasty today in the day hospital. It went well, no…
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I’m listening to Heather Cox Richardson’s politics chat; she’s explaining that she doesn’t like to use the passive tense. The passive tense has no actor, the passive voice is vague, it’s not clear who is doing what. She takes this thought from school writing class to current…
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It’s been almost a week since we returned from our epic Nebraska road trip, but I’m not yet feeling back at home. We returned Tuesday evening and went right back to work and school, and for me, Chemo on Thursday. I’m having a hard time with this…
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Me: I’m exhausted. I sleep all day and am still exhausted. Radiation Oncologist: Fatigue is normal after treatment. Me: I forget things, I can’t focus, I feel like a constant failure at work, I’m easily overwhelmed. Therapist: Try making lists. Me: My nails are still brittle and cracking down to the quick. Nurse: Oh nails are…
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I have an email account for Felix just for the purpose of two apps, a by-product of Covid remote school. Sometimes I look at it to see what it’s like to have an empty inbox. To feel the cool, fresh breeze against my brain. The nothingness, the sweet calm. No one asking “Did you get…
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I use my work calendar as my personal calendar too, for tracking appointments and school events, things like that. And doctors appointments, lots of doctors appointments. I copy or “invite” Paulie to them so we can arrange pick ups, etc. Very handy for the usual family logistics. Today I was double checking my schedule when…
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You were arrogant, and set me up to be attacked. You literally lay in wait for your moment to belittle me, a stranger to you. You enjoyed being superior. You, who do not know me at all or our company’s history or policies, called me a hypocrite. You opened our relationship with an attack…
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Covid limbo work times have been interesting, and odd. We are busier than we have been in months. Eighteen months of pent up demand has been unleashed all at once. Also unleashed—every bad customer’s bad behavior. This week I had a live chat customer who asked a question that required a little research. I asked…
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Last spring, as we settled into a work-from-home, school-from-home, freak out-from-home routine, I often felt helpless. Helpless to stop the pandemic, helpless to keep my job afloat, helpless to keep my parents and in-laws safe…I knew how to hunker down; the 24 hour domestic family maintenance wasn’t hard. It was a lot like maternity leave,…
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“I’ll need you to be masked” “That’s ok you can wear a mask” “I know, but I also need you to wear a mask” “You need ME to wear a mask?” ”Yes”. ”We can talk about that back in my office” “I’m not meeting with anyone who's not masked, just like my email explained. I’m…
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