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Work was tiring-but-successful. The meeting continues through tomorrow... starting early, again.

I've been down for several days, haven't really found a moment or place to talk to anyone, but have avoided self-destructive behaviors thus far. I've resisted the temptation of several forms of online self-flagellation, so I guess that's an improvement.

This evening I had a lovely dinner with woodsbunny, here on one of her quarterly business visits... nice new seafood restaurant on Castro St.

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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...

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(shakes head) a contentious morning. I'm late to work after talking to Pat, photocopiers don't work, I've then got 20 people milling around for 20 minutes waiting on me... sigh. They were cranky. I was cranky. Folks argued for an hour over the meaning of one phrase in the proposal evaluation criteria. I snapped a couple of times and nearly walked out once... from the podium. JL is giving me space. The rest of the morning... I calmed down and played facilitator. More of the same, this afternoon.

By the way, I'm only getting email updates of LJ comments sporadically, or not at all... so I may have to manually scan in order to find and answer the past day's worth.