Oh wow, I hope this comes through quickly for you! It's hard to imagine how it wouldn't be a huge improvement from what you are doing now -- although how *do* they coordinate things if they have several people on the team going out for a full year?! No wonder she didn't get back to you sooner - could you imagine trying to plan for being out for that length of time??

Today was my first annoying day at the job, the kind of day that makes me think I will be out in a few months. Someone decided to communicate about something with me by posting signs on the wall rather than telling me to my face or via email (and I don't know who it was). My boss was being very micro-managery with me -- and I'm starting to run into situations where I say the problem is caused by X and he just insists that I am wrong.

So, kind of a bummer. I really feel like the problem is me with this stuff, an inability to go with the flow and to let go of irritation.