the twilight zone

today work was a mixture of wierd, uncomfortable & awful. but i stayed until almost 9 tonight & i was able to catch up on some things & that feels good. stupid pms. tonight i started to feel kinda sad m is leaving. i had to break it to my supervisees today & that was no fun. who wants to be the bearer of bad news? (especially bad news that not really bad. good for her, finally being a little strategic & ending up with a severance package.)

i've got an intern for the next 5 weeks. kinda nervous about it, as i have absolutely no time to manage that on top of everything else. we spent more than half the day at the offices of the organization we're merging with... though it feels much more like a hostile take over. it was pretty awkward cuz we were just there to see which of their things would be moving to our office space. a few of them were discussing how much they didn't want to go/knew they weren't going to like their new job, etc. our E.D. released the newest organizational chart yesterday - a lot of people had different titles & different positions, some people were in different departments. the worst thing about it was that the newest staff member (6-months in) has been promoted to a department director & someone else who was the director for 5 years was demoted & is now working under her. but they're both such great people - super nice, etc. it's just so awful & awkward. the new director, who is also new to the non-profit world was telling me today that she expected non-profit to be very different but was surprised that it's basically the same as for profit. huh. that makes me feel ill. this is definitely not the place that it was 7 years ago when i moved to b'more. whatever. enough about my work. it's taking over.

i think the new intern's a little dyke. kinda cute. i think she was flirting with one of the other lesbians. can't say i've witnessed lesbian flirting right next to my desk before. first time for everything i guess.