A zip trip, and now no more travel
Dec. 8th, 2018 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonI took a fast, fast trip to California. I didn't like it, but it turns out that traveling with just a backpack and purse is rather marvelous, and upgrading one's red-eye to business class means one actually sleeps. The difference between four hours of solid sleep and a couple hours of partial sleep is huge. I've never flown business class before, so that's a first for me... I'd say "too bad I missed most of it" but no, that's a good thing.
Nala is still doing better, which is to say: comfortable, for now. She's getting nightly fluids, and eating again (a diet of 100% tuna, which is bad for her kidneys except that her kidneys are already a lost cause), and her breath has stopped being awful, and she's stopped drooling. The vets say we're out of options, but this temporary bounce is giving us some extra snuggle time.
Work is a pretty emotional landscape right now -- well, maybe just for L7s. But still. I cried this week, my manager cried, one of our peers cried. I had some insights. And then I got an enormous raise, along with the news that I might be expanding my empire soon instead of shrinking it (yes yes, I suppose this is a secret, but it's vague and I'm not worried about saying it here). Some of my personal plans for emotional absolution are being thwarted by this, but my director is probably right that it's a better solution for the person I was trying to help. Soooooo, that was all fine-ish but I very much needed a drink after work on Friday.
I'm actually not trashed from all this, possibly because I have no more travel plans.heisenbug said I didn't have to go to the usual NYE gathering and I took him up on it, and I said no to a January thing in Chicago; I'll get to stay here with Nala now, until she doesn't need me anymore. Thank goodness.
Nala is still doing better, which is to say: comfortable, for now. She's getting nightly fluids, and eating again (a diet of 100% tuna, which is bad for her kidneys except that her kidneys are already a lost cause), and her breath has stopped being awful, and she's stopped drooling. The vets say we're out of options, but this temporary bounce is giving us some extra snuggle time.
Work is a pretty emotional landscape right now -- well, maybe just for L7s. But still. I cried this week, my manager cried, one of our peers cried. I had some insights. And then I got an enormous raise, along with the news that I might be expanding my empire soon instead of shrinking it (yes yes, I suppose this is a secret, but it's vague and I'm not worried about saying it here). Some of my personal plans for emotional absolution are being thwarted by this, but my director is probably right that it's a better solution for the person I was trying to help. Soooooo, that was all fine-ish but I very much needed a drink after work on Friday.
I'm actually not trashed from all this, possibly because I have no more travel plans.
heisenbug said I didn't have to go to the usual NYE gathering and I took him up on it, and I said no to a January thing in Chicago; I'll get to stay here with Nala now, until she doesn't need me anymore. Thank goodness.
