09092026. good morning flounder

"our inner nature is being renewed every day" (2 corinthians 4:16 encountered on p. 192 of kathleen norris "acedia")

09042026. good morning flounder

a sweet night spent at []'s but not without difficulties ... feeling good that i left on time in the morning #myday #myway

going out to lunch with [] and the rest of her department to celebrate her last day. it has been a good three years with her, she is leaving me with better skills to cope with working here. []'s departure also approaches, last night she sent me job postings to consider in the same town. it would be interesting to figure things out somewhere new. it was easy to encourage [] to move when he brought it up on sunday, because i believe in him and want him to be happy. do i have a self-belief problem. or am i just pretty happy here. or both

09032026. good morning flounder

began by taking my stuff to []'s empty office and writing there a while. my desk is by the microwave and people who make more money than me are microwaving food at all hours of the day. microwaving and redditing

09022026. good morning flounder

september again, this time last year [] was still here. by the 30th she was gone and we tried to keep working while the weeping managers asked "are you ok" and invited us to gather in the board room, where there were chips and soft drinks. i had a little bag of white cheddar pop corners and there was only one weeping manager in the room. i said something kind of stupid to her about how [] has been taken off of our schedule and added to the next one

i failed to convey the special feeling from my conversation with [], who is in charge of the schedule and described the task of removing every instance of []'s name, which was the only time i got tearful about it. and again a little on a walk the week after, when i still lived by the middle school and could take those long walks on the track

september is a month where i have to write a lot