I gave at the office...

Sitting in a vehicle health management telecon...

Yesterday wasn't terribly productive... I've been down and stressed. Most of the day was spent wrangling with hopeforyou's contract management over if/when/how she would be going to the field site in Spain. I think that the uncertainty and stress has been harder on her than anything. After occasionally getting dinged for being too-soft on her, yesterday I got to role-play as the bad-guy, talking to her management via telecon. As things stand, her management is holding her back until later in the week or the weekend... now I get to negotiate with the project lead, Carol, as to whether that delay will mess up her field schedule. My role: catch flak (from both directions)... so my stress levels have been high.

Surreal moment... Hope called my cellphone while I was donating blood and on a gurney! So we were discussing the MARTE project while I was simultaneously bleeding and doing leg-lifts (to equalize blood in the body, so I don't get dizzy afterwards).

And then there was a blank check that patgreene lost...

*blush*

Today I took a deep breath, and decided to finally "out" myself poly-wise to a friend... a distant-but-special friend, someone that I once practically worshiped. My first love, 25 years ago, although we never did more back then than kiss and write daily letters. She's monogamous and has been married now for 20+ years, so I feared a strong negative reaction. With great trepidation, I wrote her an email over lunch, and sent it... and in her reply tonight, discovered that she'd been reading my LJ and had figured this out long ago. Eep.