concerns

the past few days were pretty good, overall, but yesterday a conflagration of events brought up some anxiety, and it looks like i'm going to need to have a chat with the boss today. i've been doing a pretty thankless job that nobody else wants to do, and i keep being told that i have exactly one responsibility while repeatedly getting fresh, urgent and unrelated tasks dumped on me. it's bad enough that my team lead seems to have forgotten that we agreed that how i handled my post-on-call week was reasonable, we're now talking about introducing performance management benchmarks and i have a feeling that they're going to put me at a distinct disadvantage.

i don't want to work in a place that makes me feel uncomfortable. i don't want to work in a place where i'm paid for a number of hours a week, given a mission and then consistently asked to do considerably more.

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after delivering the dog on saturday, we had a lovely breakfast together and then rented a pedal boat for an hour. it was hard work, but fun!

sunday was a frustrating half-day, fortunately followed by another holiday (the last for a while). we spent a good chunk of monday with urchin, enjoying a walk-and-talk around the city and a big lunch.

yesterday, gd and i paid social security a visit and it feels like we've got everything sorted out!

gd has decided that she needed another piercing (septum), so that's a thing.