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Yesterday I left work at 4:10 so I could bike over to the Regal Meridian and see the 4:30 showing of
Monica, which I really liked, even though it was
really slow.
After the movie, I rode the rest of the way home, where I found Shobhit was gone, along with the car. Figuring he was out door knocking for his campaign and having no idea when he'd be back, I went ahead and just made myself a sandwich. I had bought a loaf of sourdough bread for my Happy Hour with Laney at Volunteer Park on Sunday, and it was the only other time I'd been able to use any of that bread for a sandwich. Shobhit had already eaten so much of the rest of it that only three slices were left. This was my last chance to get one more sandwich out of it.
I then wrote the movie review, which was fewer than 500 words, much shorter than usual for me. In the past I would have tried to pad it and get at least to 600 words, but, finding I had no more to say about the movie, I decided just to let it be.
Shobhit got home while I was watchin an episode of
Somebody Somewhere on HBO Max—excuse me, as of yesterday, it's just "Max." Although it's still HBO too, so are we still going to call HBO programming there "HBO Max"? Probably not, but that would actually make sense. I literally thought of that while writing this very paragraph. This is important stuff!
I took a break from catching up on that show to assist Shobhit in adapting his "talking card" text for his candidate statement submission for the voter's pamphlet to be published for the August 1 primary election. It's only hitting me now that my husband's photo, alongside his statement on policy positions, will be staring at me in the next King County voter guide. Whether he makes it past the primary or not, that's actually going to be very cool. That's what I just decided.
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After taking some three weeks to catch up on backlogged tasks after my Birth Week vacation, today I am so caught up I almost don't know what to do with myself. It's an unusual position to be in. There's still plenty for me to do; I just need to decide and prioritize, really. And there are other initiatives coming up that will reliably keep me from returning to this position again very often. I keep thinking I should get even more organized and work ahead on some things, to make taking time off more manageable in the future. That is one habit that's difficult to get into.
I do beed to adjust my spreadsheet I use to track both used and projected PTO, even more useful now that I cannot cash any of it out at the end of the year and I thus have to take more of it—granted, there's no pressing need at the moment; even as of tomorrow's payecheck, my PTO balance will still be slightly in the red, by just over two hours. Only by the
next paycheck will it be back into positive value territory, with a balance of just over 8 hours. This is after taking 84 hours for the trip to Australia and then another 40 for my Birth Week. I certainly won't be taking so much time off in so short an amount of time again for the rest of the year. And still! Just to burn through the excess PTO I have, I'll probably take several days off in single stretches at least twice more before the year ends. I'm rather hoping I can do it again over both Thanksgiving and Christmas weeks and avoid "volunteering" to work at stores, but we'll see whether I can actually get away with that again.
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[posted 12:33 pm]
