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[jay]

Grrr. My FAA colleagues have finally rescheduled the aviation information management meeting with Defense and Homeland Security... for 11/20, in Washington, DC. The week before the Thanksgiving holiday, but that's James's birthday. Sigh. patgreene is furious and wants me to quit. I *so* did not need this, this week.

Off to glue on a smiley-face and play host to 30 people at work, all day...

Comments

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Good answer.

Brian--have some balls (we know you DO!!). These people should NOT run your whole life. You are not president of the US--they don't have the right to claim your every waking minute.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

It is similar to being in the military, in some respects... or so I'm told (having never been in uniform myself). They expect that I will be available for duty with minimal notice, wherever and whenever I'm required.

That said, I'm not required at every meeting that someone thinks I ought to attend. And I'm not going to the meeting on 11/20, after all -- I got out of it :-). Not by stamping by feet, but by being opportunistic (turns out that JL wasn't going, so I seized a moment and convinced the Powers That Be that I wasn't required there, either).