Title is borrowed from Birdmonster. You should check them out.

Here's an inventory of what's on my mind today:

• HR is useless. I've been off for a few days, and they didn't bother to contact two of us to tell us that we were supposed to come in for a meeting today instead of Monday. So it makes us look unprofessional by being late after getting a "hey, did you guys know about the meeting?" message from a supervisor. My boss is pissed - fortunately not at us - and is now determined never to rely on HR to contact leadership any more.


• One of my immediate supervisors, a woman I like, apparently dug her own grave this past week by refusing to pitch in and work on the project we're doing. I'll miss her, but I'm also wondering about who will be promoted in her place. I hate how it feels to wonder who will be promoted and worrying about getting the nod or being passed over. This seems to happen at least once a year as people come and go.


• My boss mentioned in passing, right after complaining about HR, that we should "talk" but we didn't since her DOE meeting ran over and I don't know what she had in mind. Catching me up to what I missed by being late this morning...or something else?


• On a positive note, I think I realize what I dislike about my novel. Initially I decided on a unique motivator for the (male) main character to carry out the antecedent action, but it's too damn contrived, even for a horror/fantasy story. I think going with a more common, and therefore more believable, motivator will improve the story. This will cause a lot of rewriting, but I think it will be worth it. Originality doesn't carry much weight if it's not also plausible. Right? I'm hoping this "fix" will help motivate me to finish the rest of the book soon.


• Why am I attracted to unobtainable men? I either need to find myself attracted to guys without SOs or become the type of person who doesn't let that stop my desire to pursue them. Neither of these seems too likely today...


• Why are there random paragraphs in the last post? I tried to get rid of them 3 times, but they persist.