So is it a bad thing to email your boss telling her you're stretched too thin? Especially knowing full well that she's so overextended you can almost see through her!? Hmmm.

Hope not. Because I did this yesterday. She seemed to take it in good humor and immediately relieved me of several lower priority (and admittedly not much fun) projects. So that's a good thing. She also informed me of exactly where my priorities should lie and that all other requests should be considered secondary.

According to her, my top priorities are the land sales auction and staking brochures, staking maps, and the upcoming Willow Sub-basin Area Plan project. These are all fun tasks for me. So yay! In addition, I'm working on setting up a Title Report mapping template using GIS, putting together a Projections for Dummies class and a presentation on projections to do with another girl at the GIS Day event at the University of Alaska in mid-November. So my plate is now full of fun stuff.

As far as the other folks in our family are concerned... here's a brief update:
Stephen-- Still bored at work, but coming to realize that all the employees there felt the same way when they were new... It's apparently the nature of the beast.

Donald-- Preparing to celebrate his 16th birthday in a couple weeks. He's inviting some guys over to have a video game extravaganza at the house. Something like 4 TV's, lots of controllers, etc. Every now and then he talks about heading over to the DMV to get some info, but I don't think he's actually done that yet. And he's decided to do basketball tryouts instead of bowling because they are at the same time....

Tess-- I think tonight might be her last regular season game. The squad has already begun training for competitions. I believe they have 2 this Fall... one at the end of October and the other at the beginning of November. She has apparently mastered her roundoff back handspring which brings her no end of joy. She'll be doing it in the competition routine. Her grades remain good, so when I ground her for being a pain in the butt, I generally relent due to her continued scholarship...

Alicia May-- Learned to say "milk" yesterday. She's getting good at that ending "k" sound. She also said "book" yesterday. She know what sound cows make... Unfortunately she claims all farm animals make the same sound... Her favorite song to sing is E-I-E-I-O. Heavy on the E-I's and light on the O. When she sees a picture of farm animals, she starts singing it.