Slow Your Roll, and other notes

In the last 13 days, I've fallen in love with my neighborhood bar(tenders), celebrated Halloween, come up with a life plan, suffered through the death flu, and scheduled my first Match date. I also ordered new flats, bought a winter work skirt (on sale!), purchased my bridesmaid's dress (25% off!), ordered various necessities from drugstore.com while sitting in my towel in bed (win!), upgraded to unlimited texting, mailed things, and made chili. Take that, 13 days. Since I've fallen behind, I will do a data dump of everything that comes to mind in the next 15 minutes.

I just read this article which is about a study that I should probably also read, but won't, and have happily determined that I have an above-average number of close friends with whom I discuss "important matters". One may be out of the country, two out of the city, and between one and five in town (depending on what segment of "matters" we're talking) but yeah, I have definitely discussed "important matters" with more than 2.03 people in the last six months. Way more.

I got very pumped up about a few things at work that, in my mind, indicate an inability of this institution to move beyond Cold War-era thinking. Everyone talks a big game about being innovative and harnessing the energy of the younger generation, but in reality, the young people show up all energetic and ready to be harnessed and quickly discover that they can't be successful in their chosen organization if they don't bend to the will of their elders. I'm not just talking about being respectful and paying dues, I'm talking about thinking like them. This, obviously, leads to the successful ones being those who have learned to think like their bosses, thereby discounting any innovation in thinking that might have been possible had creativity been fostered. Depressing. And, cause to start something new. More on that later...

And, that's really all for now. I'm currently waiting for the phone to ring to chat with the bossman for a while, since he's been in and out of the country for weeks now and I can't imagine he remembers what I look like. More later.