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I recently started drinking Crystal Light, and I never thought I’d be a person that drinks Crystal Light.
My husband gave me the side-eye when he saw me drinking it, but he (wisely) hasn’t said anything.

I actually do not give a fig about the calories — it’s more just that I often want to drink something that isn’t water, but when I buy juice it tends to go bad because I don’t want not-water enough that I can finish a big bottle of juice on my own before it turns. And sometimes I will buy kombucha but it’s so expensive. Crystal light is super cheap and I can take it “on the go!” I am such a middle aged lady these days. This is how it happens.

K’s mom is here and it’s been going pretty well. I am, somehow, STILL SICK. Woke up this morning feeling awful. Took a good nap this afternoon and felt slightly re-invigorated. I just don’t understand how I’ve been sick for like a month. This has gone on way longer than either time I had COVID. I am ready to just feel normal again. Please. Whoever is in charge. I am ready, I can handle it.

In our relationship, my mom is the “complicated” one, K’s mom is super chill and enjoyable to have around. I always appreciate when she visits because she goes along with whatever and is agreeable and helps tidy up and actually asks us where things go. My mom is pretty much the exact opposite, she will help tidy up but she will NOT ask where things go and just invent her own system which she will then tell us is better than what we were doing. Mmmmkay. She is definitely much more high maintenance. K is not thrilled that she and my dad plan to move here. But, he married me and my parents come with the package. Anyway, point being having K’s mom here has been lovely.

I have been having a hard time getting into work, maybe because I only worked Thursday-Friday this week, and because I’m still not feeling great, but I was completely unable to focus either day. I hope it goes better next week because things are finally happening — I have my working group committed, I have some interesting projects and actual commitment from engineering teams and this is VERY EXCITING. We have been in this kind of holding pattern for a long time, even before the layoffs last December, but since then it’s been just abysmal and difficult to get anything done. I’m excited about what’s coming up and hopeful we can really get the knowledge management practice up and running and showing some value. 

I’ll probably create a locked filter of some kind to go deeper on my job, but I work in tech as a taxonomist/ontologist. I have historically worked in e-commerce, creating hierarchical browse structures for products on websites. I now work more deeply with metadata and classification, but these things also feed into the customer-facing navigation still. I currently work for a media company that has really had no significant knowledge organization practice ever, not the way my previous employers have. It means there is a LOT to do, and a LOT of people to convince. Sometimes it feels impossible, but other times, like now, it feels exciting. I started my librarian life in rare books & archives, so I have made some pretty major jumps to get to where I am today, but I love what I do. 

I actually need to work on a talk I’ll be doing at the university. I give a talk once a quarter or so to a library science class there and it’s honestly one of the highlights of my life every time I do it, I absolutely love talking to students. I always think maybe someday when I’m a little less invested in MomLife™️ I’ll teach a class. Maybe maybe.