Finally today is the day, the day we take the TRASH out of the White House. The official day of inauguration for new President Joe Biden. Those of us Trump haters are elated and victorious and quite frankly RELIEVED that we may at least get some sense of normalcy and competence. Those in the minority and particularly those extremists who have believed and promoted all of Trump's lies are basically aghast. Some still believe that Biden would be arrested right there on the Capitol steps. Incredible that they would think that. More incredible that there is a lot of people who do. I mean I get that they would be against the Democrats as strongly as I would be against conservatives. But to fall for his shit? You would almost feel sorry for them. And so we, the country moves on, and I must say there is a sense of joy and light heartedness even that hasn't been felt in the past few years. Just check out Biden's inaugural performers... a veritable cavalcade of A-listers. And my favorite? The New Romantics "You Get What You Give", one of Johnnie's favorites from my car playlist! THey even made the inauguration. Very. Very. Cool. I tried to keep up with the festivities, virtual though they were and I made it to almost 10 AM when I finally had to start my slate of meetings for the day...
So I had an OCHIN meeting at 10 and then a meeting with Eloisa right after. That last one had me nervous... but then again any meeting with her always used to make me nervous. And always ended up with me feeling pretty good about the job I am doing. The anxiety always comes from feeling insecurity and self-doubt. And I took care of that already first thing this morning with some very nice meditation. And at the end of the meeting, which was all about discussing data requirements by Dr Liao and the Clinical team, everything seemed ok. Except for one piece of news. It would seem that my reporting structure is being changed again. Now I'm being moved to report to Dennis our VP of Finance. Back to that department eh? I used to report to Gary Grubbs a while ago. As in 2015. Wow has it been that long. I didn't really have any feelings one way or the other to be honest. I think I'm confident enough that whoever is in charge that I report to would easily see that they should just leave me be to do my job and I will do an EXEMPLARY job. I always do. I provide massive value. That will always be true. And I will hold myself to that. In the meantime, there was the Tech Council Meeting in the afternoon and I had enough material to make it to 50 minutes and then the talk afterwards carried it to the entire hour. I think it was all in all pretty good though. One more Tech Council Meeting in the books and as usual, right after I breathed my sigh of relief that it was all done. Hopefully I could relax through the end of the week. Or at the very least catch up on sleep tonight. In the meantime it's still mid-week, it's still a full day with Johnnie and today he's making artwork to reflect even the Presidential Inauguration. I was pretty drained after my Tech Council, which roughly coincided with the time his energy level got jacked up again. Thank God I have karate class to fall back on and it has gotten quite harder even with the exercises. I see him HAVING to take a water break now just to catch up. Of course, within minutes after he's back to his energy bundled self. It IS Wednesday however so it is Panda Express Westwood night and here we were at dusk lining up to get our dinner. I remind myself that it IS a short week and although I have 3 more meetings lined up tomorrow, the urgency is no longer there. And so I could go home and peruse YouTube for all the things I missed with the inauguration especially the fireworks festivities at the White House. I am really looking forward to a sense of not-crazy. I think we're all tired of Trump's drama quite frankly although he is not likely to go hide under a rock either. And so half the week is done and I could already feel myself feeling drained by dinner time. It's ok. I'm in bed by 9:30 same as Johnnie. And it was his light breathing that put me to sleep. Very quickly.
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