Day 194: For a case study on why you should try to make use of your paid time off, and why I plan on trying to use all of mine, I offer you Michael R. Caputo. I plan not to let get to the point where I accuse scientists of sedition and rant about “left wing hit squads”.

Today … was entirely spent writing up a new set of objectives for myself in what would hypothetically be my new role. See, because there’s likely a left wing hit squadcreature in the basement of the former Lehman Brothers headquarters that feeds on bureaucracy, the process goes like this: The role gets defined, I set those as my objectives, they open an actual role with a new title and new management structure, I apply to it, I interview with the same people that thought I’d be best for the job in the first place, I show how I’m meeting the new objectives to this point, then they promote me.

In other news, @phinnia got a nearly perfect mark on her ethics paper (she’s cruising with a comfortable grade of 95 so far in the class), and is looking to do, for her large assignment, a paper on the …dubious ethics … of experiments that were done at the Willowbrook institution, and similar, on disabled children. You know, children not dissimilar to our son. Or me. Or @phinnia. Y’know, in case you thought ableism wasn’t a thing that ever existed.

Fun fact: there is still a Supreme Court decision that has been used to allow for the involuntary sterilization of disabled people without their consent that hasn’t been overturned. Buck v. Bell. Look it up when you have a second. And, in some states, there were laws on the books that could have been used as justification to spay @phinnia or neuter me as late as 1986. Y’know, in case any of you thought ableism wasn’t a thing that existed.

Anyway, that’s all I got. Stay safe, wash your hands, and who the HELL put a 7:30 a.m. meeting on my calendar? Wankers.