Hi Hvert...

Sorry for not responding quicker, I've been struggling a bit with feeling depressed. And still fighting the sugar cravings, so I spent most of this weekend in bed... ugh.

Your friend sounds awesome, I'd love to work for someone like that. I naturally tend to want to explain my thought processes, and my boss really doesn't want to see all that - it's too much for him, he just wants 1 or 2 sentences with the answer And, I love the she plans things out and doesn't blindside folks... I bet she also doesn't have a lot of people sitting around with nothing to do on her team?

Nice that you were able to get out and walk... does that mean things have thawed at all by you? We got another snap of cold down here that was surprising, but thankfully no ice/snow near me.

My foot and ankle are still driving me crazy - not helping my mood, because I feel like they're *never* going to be better. I went on Monday to see my chiropractor, as she's helped me out with soft-tissue type things in the past and tends to be pretty smart about this stuff. She checked out the x-ray and my foot, and thinks it's soft tissue too, but thinks it was probably a bad sprain (and that I should have gone to the urgent care right away and got a boot for my foot - oops). She said the ligaments were probably pretty torn up, and it could be another 4-6 weeks... and if it's still hurting after that, to go to a specialist, but that I'll need some other type of imaging b/c the xray isn't giving a good enough view.

Sigh. It was feeling better, but it's been acting up the last few days... it's just stressful for it to feel fine... fine... fine... then suddenly for no reason to have a sharp sudden pain, you know?

The TED vs TEDx thing - yeah, that sounds like him . He's actually good at high level stuff, he's great at schmoozing with people and selling what we do. But he just doesn't seem to have any interest in actually *managing* people.

I did get to go sit in on a big fancy meeting last week with execs from another company (we're looking to see if we can provide do some work for them). It was interesting, though I felt a bit like a hobo... everyone dresses up so well, and I only got asked the day before, and I've gained back some weight, and had to rummage around to find clothes that weren't jeans/t-shirts. Sigh.

And, I saw the woman from the other team there! I said hi - but didn't really chat her up at all, and I felt bad about that afterwards... I bugged out of one of the demonstrations, because we had been standing for ~3 hours (!) and my foot was killing me, of course, and went back to the main conference room to have some lunch, and she was doing the same. Another woman joined, and they chatted about baby stuff - and I tried to be involved and smile and nod, but really was so tired from getting there early and from standing, that I didn't jump in and look as sociable as maybe I should have.

Oh, and no you're right - I'm not looking at *all* jobs, I'm looking for ones that I think I'd be qualified for... in my field. That's a good point... although I'm not sure that anything is going to excite me much right now.

Any luck with your boss? Any signs of him backing off a bit with the micro-managing?