Week 288: Five Hour Chat

I’ve had an absolutely wild week of ups and downs. I’m emotionally and physically exhausted. We kicked off with my dad’s birthday. He would have been 78 this year if he wasn’t dead. I knew him for 18 years and he’s been dead for 20 so it’s weird coming to terms with the fact I probably know some of my friends better than I knew him. It’s also weird thinking about the fact that the “me” he knew is very much not the person I am today, would we even get on? Who knows. Weird. On Thursday I gave a well received talk at work. I know it was well received because a dozen people DMed me directly about it to say so, that’s never happened before. Also the head of our department kept nodding at me a lot while I was speaking. I was given 24 hours to prepare the talk so I think I can call it a success. I nearly burned all the goodwill that I generated by asking why we have no budget for promotions but decided to bank that credit for now instead. After the talk I left the office because I had a half…