Over my 6 weeks of furlough I did a lot of birding, some baking (but less than you’d think), monitored my local TJ Maxx for ‘the good lip balms’, got in all of the doctors appointments I’d been putting off, and painted my bathroom (just finished that this morning). Glad to go back to work though.

Yours has like, SHADING. It reminds me of the Trogdor episode of Strong Bad. “I employed some chiaroscuro shading” then I light it on fire because I am a talentless brute

I wish I had your skill. I was barely able to manage centered and legible lettering

I’m currently going with: laying around like a slug

I had basically given up hope of finding something local. I’d been to pretty much every federal office in town asking if they could take me.

I haven’t been able to make plans beyond a month out for pretty much all of 2026, because I’ve had a management directed reassignment to our headquarters hanging over my head the entire time. At least now I can feel a little more settled.

Also yes this is crazy. I’m lucky that it looks pretty likely that I’ll be able to get on a wifi network in this office, but most of our staff hosted by other agencies have to spend 40 hours a week on their phone hotspot, doing Teams meetings etc.

Ok come on I do

Oh my god she’s wrong. I stand with you. Jeez Alisa.

More info on proposed Schedule F: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...