Tidbit #1
Still no plan of action re: Bad Lady's birthday. Bagels was a brief blip on the radar screen but talk has died down. My boss suggested an idea he had seen at a leadership conference of where a sheet of paper is passed around and everyone writes down something that they like about the birthday person. Until my friend said to him, "Are you sure you want to start that with [Bad Lady]?"

Because, we're a creative group, but we're not that creative.

Tidbit #2
The shit that went down. Basically, we've all known for a long time, that one of my friends in the department is finishing up law school and is going to be leaving us. Well, the timetable had been May, her graduation date. However, she may be offered a clerking position and may take that opportunity and leave us earlier than planned. As she is essentially the glue that holds this department together, this caused the sirens to go off inside my boss' head and he called an emergency meeting to tell us all we needed to "roll up our sleeves" to get "up to speed" on the things that she does, and we would all need to "work together," blah blah "in the loop" blah "transition."

Not a big deal I guess. Except the world will come crashing down around me and one other person when she leaves because we will have to become the venting wall, the security blanket, the one who gets called at home on Saturday morning, the one who gets shit on. All rolled up into a neat little package.