Four Times Into The Breach

(Entry from yesterday I forgot to publish)

Big meeting week at work means I head into the city like it is The Before Times. Four whole times this week. Pray for me. How did I used to do this.

Today we had a small team gathering. 

Tomorrow a mandatory full team 9am meeting. Clients and folks start arriving, keynote at lunch, meetings. Meetings. Meetings. Some fun squozed in there somewhere I am sure. 

Wednesday is the full biggest day of meetings and my volunteer ass will be wayfinding, microphone running, being friendly. Possibly one in person meeting with a very unhappy client (my manager is meeting with her and asked me to come with, maybe). 

Thursday the clients have a day to themselves but we're still required to come in for another full team meeting, a "decompress," a "what went well what didn't" kind of discussion with brunch. 

And I may leave right after and head home if I don't feel like being in the office. I may have my absolute fill of going to DC for four days at that point. 

I also find I don't get a lot of work done when I'm in the office. I get so much more work done here. And by Thursday I'll be way behind things. 

The team outing was such a good time. My colleague J put together a really fun excursion for us. We had lunch, then we went down tot he Hirshhorn Museum where we enjoyed the exhibits a lot, and then over to the Botanical Garden. We are all incredibly different, but also really like each other and care about each other. J is selling his condo in DC and it hasn't been moving. The market sucks. He went on vacation and decided to take it off the market and rent it and the day he decided to do that found a new co-worker looking for a long term (1-3 years) lease. 

We talked about letting go of dreams and just finding a path to something possibly unexpected and having the dream come true. 

Now he needs to find a new place in his new city of choice. 

H is building a house and she and her husband are having a wonderful time picking and planning. 

E lives in Colorado and by day is a support manager, by night a rock star. An actual rock star. We talked about that side of her career and how it is going. 

And our boss' dad had emergency heart surgery that morning in Boston. So far, so good, doing well. He said that his brother is there, monitoring the situation, taking care of mom and he'll be going up for the weekend and working from there. 

I walked 7 miles. My feet are killing me. 

I have tons of pictures. None of the botanical garden, though. 

We got back to the office and H and I got together with B from St. Louis, who flew in that afternoon. We had a lovely catch up at the brewery by our office, and it was really packed. The line was out the door. A combination of Trivia night and a policeman's conference of some sort happening where our favorite little watering hole became the place to be in the NOMA area. I was going to order dinner but passed and decided to eat at home. 

I walked back from the metro, too. So many steps today!

Here's a shot of me in the Laurie Anderson: Four Talks exhibit. I could have spent hours here, reading every word. Digits below.

digits

exercise: 12/12 hours.   Four distinct and measurable walks, 2 walking to/from the metro. 2 in DC from the office to the restaurant and the Hirshhorn to the Botanical Gardens. 17k steps by bedtime

blood glucose:

9am: 128
n/a afternoon reading
11pm: 92

food:
coffee/water
9am: phentermine
10:15am: met + glip
10:45am: pb& low sugar j on 647 bread
1pm: 3 lovely steak tacos on flour tortillas
6pm: 2 beers at the brewery; met+glip. Was going to order something for dinner but the line was so long!
8pm: bowl of pasta w/ chicken, tomatoes, mushrooms
10:30pm: jardiance