"OMG, my eyebrows raised and my jaw dropped at least twice while reading your message."

Ha! Thanks... yeah, you should have seen me in the meeting. It was definitely surreal. And, nope, we don't really have anyone that would make a good leader in the group. Most of us have specifically said that we don't want to move up into management jobs, because we don't want to deal with managing people!

There's actually one person that I think would love to be a leader, but she's... well, not well-suited for it. So I don't want to encourage her!

I don't think there'd be a problem with pitching to my boss that I move to the team that would be doing the entire design, except, we have no clue what team that will be at this point, or if we're going to actually do this. We're still trying to figure out the process and it's all in flux.

Meanwhile, I'm banging my head against the corporate wall trying to figure out how to upgrade some software that I've got, so I can share files with my co-workers who apparently all have a newer version. You would not believe the amount of emails and trying to get this sorted out... it should not be so hard!

Anyway... it's really intriguing that your BF seems to be trying to run into people, but isn't consciously aware of it! That must be crazy to see in person! Do you think it's everyone, or does he have a type? Like, maybe he let's woman have their space, but tries to run over guys close in age to him because it feels more competitive?

Awesome that you were able to go to another event - sorry about the sunburn though! I hope it's not too awful, and that you heal fast! I am totally with you about the internet - it's amazing and fantastic and incredibly useful, but I've just started noticing that I do feel better (less depressed) when I manage to spend some time disconnected each day. I bet the gardening is a huge help in spending time offline, it seems so *grounded* (no pun intended!) and real (versus virtual).