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It finally happened, you guys! I slept through the night without waking up! What a wonderful thing.
I still have a lingering sense of the cold I had, and seem to cough a little every once in a while. But that sinus headache thing I had going on, particularly on Tuesday, is gone completely, and for that I am immensely grateful. I'm even back to biking to work today, although it was 50° this morning and once it gets even a few degrees colder than that, I'll probably stop cycling for the year.
I probably still should have gone to bed earlier last night—left and right people say how critical getting enough sleep is to overall health—but, I got really distracted by a sudden compulsion to create
an Apple Music playlist of songs by the women who have been the biggest pop icons in the gay community. It's pretty on the nose, but that's precisely the point, and I'm kind of amazed I never thought to creat it sooner: it goes from Cher to Madonna to Lady Gaga to Britney Spears, and it ends with ballads by Christina Aguilera, Cyndi Lauper, Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland.
The way I see it, it's packed with gay dance club bangers. Most people might expect that I would have opened it with Madonna, but I decided to make the first track "Believe" by Cher for two reasons: first, she's been around a lot longer than Madonna. And second, the
Believe album was made explicity as an acknowledgment to her longtime gay fans. Madonna, while long a huge advocate for queer people, never did that. So, Cher gets the respect of the #1 position, even though Madonna's got a far longer career span of gay fandom specifically, with a record 50 singles that hit #1 on the dance charts. Thus, Madonna gets the second track.
Britney Spears never really did it for me, but I have to acknowledge that no playlist like this would be complete without her. And I'm finding I'm getting pretty into that "Work Bitch" song. I even included a late-eighties track by Liza Minelli even though I've truly never understood her appeal as a gay icon, but the song, "Losing My Mind," was produced by the Pet Shop Boys so that makes it at least tolerable.
Anyway I listened to the playlist while cycling to work this morning and then while at work, and had a great time listening to it.
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I had a couple of informal chats with Gabby yesterday. In one, I had to gab about some office dirt. In another, she told me Dave asked her if I'd be interested in being on the office transition team next year.
My initial reaction was: "It depends entirely on what that will entail."
Gabby said she figured that, but then she pretty effectively sold it on me, hard. It would give me a lot of input on decisions regarding the new office space, and far more significantly to me personally, I would likely get early access to tour the space, get photos, etc. I'm probably dreaming here, but perhaps it would even get me some special access to more of Rainier Square Tower. There's only one way to find out!
Gabby noted that I would probably be the only person on the transition team who was even here the last time the office moved. I was not on the transition team last time, but there's a very good chance she's right about that. There's a few people in Merchandising who worked for PCC in 2016, but it's possible I'm the only one who worked at the office at the time. Leon, maybe. I can't remember.
EDIT: Dave came by to chat with me later this morning. It's official, I agreed to represent Merchandising on the Office Transition Team.
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Let's see. What else? Oh. I just spent a lot of time watching TV last night: this week's episodes of
Slow Horses on Apple TV+;
Only Murders in the Building on Hulu; and
Agatha All Along on Disney+.
I even watched
Agatha All Along in the living room with Shobhit, even though he did not watch the first two episodes from last week. He sure picked up on the narrative quickly, though, and made pretty obviously accurate predictions, rather underscoring how predictable the series is. That doesn't make it any less enjoyable to me, although I did thing the first two episodes were better than this one, making it kind of unfortunate this was the first one Shobhit watched. And I really like all the actors in it, so it's still a fun watch as far as I'm concerned. I like it better than
WandaVision already. What's not to like, when it's about a coven of witches and stars Kathryn Hahn and Patty LuPone?
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