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Adulting II

This time last year, I was writing about how I accidentally became a community leader when all I meant to do was make some appointments (aka adulting) and clear the junk out of my home office. In the intervening year, I have: made those appointments — dental, medical, and financial things that needed doing, all sorted continued being a community leader, or at least organizer survived the shift from cubicles to an open office at my day job (being able to work from home part of the time has been essential to my sanity) turned 40 (I have not, however, cleared out my home office. Much.) 2020 started with some more big changes at the day job. Retirements and a shrinking team meant that a few colleagues and I needed to step up and acquire some new skills, fast. At the same time, we’ve got our hands full with a big, tricky project, which doesn’t help matters. I’ve spent all of January feeling waaay out of my depth. …and yet nothing has exploded, we’re keeping on top of things (so far…ask me in a month or two, ahahaha), and I think I’m impressing my manager and colleagues. It’s really not a comfortable spot to be in. I’m stressed and tired, and I’d much rather go back to my happy little status quo. But…I might just be rising to meet this challenge. In related news, last weekend my spouse and I had a house party, just a small gathering of friends.…

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Adulting Sucks But At Least There’s Coffee

Which is funny, because I was pretty sure I was never going to be a coffee person. First of all, our new anthology is out! It features four stories from the time period between the War and the events in City of Hope and Ruin. All the details can be found here. But seriously, there was a coffee shop in the lobby of the engineering building at university, and I’d meet my friends there all the time, maybe getting some tea, and they were boggled about how I was surviving engineering school without caffeine. (Maybe caffeine would have helped? I did not get a lot of sleep at night and slept through a lot of class, but I think I’m mostly immune to caffeine anyway.) (Moving on.) In a few minutes here I have to take my car to the dealership for a major recall fix (apparently the passenger side airbag becomes more and more likely to explode incorrectly as time goes on), which is a pain in the butt. I have at least coerced them into giving me a rental car so I don’t have to wait around (with the smallest, mobile one) for six hours while they replace the airbag. Two weeks ago, I had to have the washing machine repaired. And two weeks before THAT I had sinus surgery, which I shall be paying for forever. I mean, nothing’s a catastrophe. But, Goddess, can’t things stop falling apart? Can’t we go a few months where there are…

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Adulting

At the start of this year, I got back from vacation, looked around at the state of my home, and declared that January would be Adulting Month. What I had in mind was things like “make some appointments that I keep putting off” and “clear the junk out of my home office”. (I guess decluttering is the new weight loss resolution?) But apparently the universe didn’t get the memo. I’ve written before about how contra dance has helped me grow. Well, the past few months have presented a whole new challenge. See, I’m on the organizing committee for my local dance community. A few months ago, we started talking about changing how we do things. It’s a bit esoteric and not essential to my point here, so I won’t go into details, but suffice to say that it’s about inclusivity. (If you really want to know, read the fifth paragraph of my last post about contra.) Here’s where I admit that I was the one who officially got things moving (after months of unofficial talking). Suddenly I found myself on the front lines along with two other women. We were planning out how to introduce it in such a way that everyone felt heard and included, even the people who liked the status quo and had never thought about doing things differently. I was writing copy for our website and newsletter. I was vetting the survey that my co-planner put together. I was talking to other dancers to find out…

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