A week of discovery

• Tuesday: went with Helios to see my very favorite sex-science person for her new book release! She did a reading and answered audience questions, and OMG. She wore truly amazing "birds and bees" shoes ("are they comfortable? NOOOOO. They are not. They're coming off the moment I walk back off this stage"), and did such a bang-up job on the Q&A that I would love to see her do a standup routine someday. She would absolutely kill it. Now I have a signed copy of Come Together and can't wait to read it with the bug! It was fun that apfelsingail got to see her too, a few days later as the book tour continued.


• Also Tuesday: tried bone conduction headphones finally, after figuring out that there are some cheap ones to cheaply experiment with (and buying a refurbished pair even of those). They don't work for every exercise, or for every environment, but they are quite comfortable when they work. I like them.


• Thursday: discovered a small stupid bald spot on my small stupid head, confirmed on Friday by nice partners taking a look. This is my fifth time -- oh yes, I do have a record -- and I have learned to immediately snag an appointment for cortisone shots. This one's in a new spot, but I continue to get lucky in that it doesn't really show.


• Friday: watched Poor Things, which I found just amazing and hilarious, from script to camera lens work to world building (costumes especially). It's a great exploration of an interesting theme, and the way Bella's coordination improves subtly all the way through the movie, long after it's no longer explicitly discussed, was so well done. There is a little bit of born sexy yesterday, but both the sexuality and the naivete are used to drive the plot forward, so at least it wasn't gratuitous.


• Saturday: went to the WNDR museum, which I figured out right at the end could spell WANDER as well as WONDER. I like immersive exhibits; I think I was hoping that more of these would be a bit more physical though. It was longer but less satisfying than Choreographic Objects at the ICA a few years ago.
  

Monday and Wednesday were just work work work. I made some really good progress on team formation with my new team, and Big Regulatory Project is also purring along toward a huge milestone, and also my HR report demanding a study of fairness in this last round of grading has been given to the appropriate People Ops team without causing trouble for my director. Good. But also... nonetheless! Two more people I enjoy working with are leaving, there was more layoff news (it's daily now) and the execs demonstrated their cluelessness in multiple large forums. I hear rumors of a new skip-level manager having signed on, and who that person reports to could affect my life a lot. There are also strong rumors that HR will be coming for my organization with talk of "spans and layers", later this year, which will save me from having 12 direct reports but cause other trouble for me. The net result is that I'm sprinting to set up this new team, while I have the chance to be hands-on-ish and before something in my head goes boom. Possibly the wrong reaction, but I LIKE setting up new teams, damn it. I was told, by me, that I got to do this one.

A friend who got laid off is doing Flash Fiction February and I'm mighty tempted. Already a lot going on though.

Sunday's not over but I've probably captured the good stuff. I will go to open studio at circus school, and my spinny croc has tipped over some kind of threshold where it's pretty confident now, so that WILL probably be good and maybe I can get video. People find it impressive; I might be the only student (non-teacher) who's working on it. A nice diversion from forever obsessing over the press.

It's all very stimulating. I have the active brain!