I went to sleep early last night, and yet I still managed to oversleep this morning, waking up from a weird, strangely octopus-centric dream* to realize it was almost eight o’clock, almost an hour too late for the train I had hoped I would catch.
I managed to get on the 8:15 train without too much of a race — I’m back to work, but I’m still trying to take it easy — and arrived in the office not too late. And, of course, after only a few minutes back, it was time for a meeting. Have I mentioned yet? Year of the Meeting!
Of course, the big news today wasn’t the meeting or the oversleeping, but a short sit-down I had with my…well, I guess soon-to-be-former boss. There have been a lot of changes in the office recently, some of them unexpected and not all of them welcome, but one of those changes will be me moving from psychology and mental health to the larger developmental editing team in New York. It’s not yet clear how immediate the transition will be, or what will become of projects I’m currently in the middle of, but it will mark a big change for me going forward. It’s probably a good change in the long run. I’ve met and like some of the people I’ll be working with, and this will help me grow as a developmental editor. But I’ve been part of the behavioral sciences group for just over six years now. I may not even be sitting with them anymore, even if in the short term I continue working on the same books.
Like any change, it’s nerve-wracking, and there are still a lot of uncertainties about the specific procedures and tasks I’ll encounter in the…well, same position, but different management, possibly different focus. I’m waiting to hear from my new boss, and I’ll take her lead.
Now I just need to make sure I don’t oversleep again.
* There’s nothing much to say here. There was an octopus trying to get out of its tank, and then someone, I think my cousin, reached in and pulled it out. It wasn’t exactly a nightmare, but…well, let’s just say Lovecraft knew what he was doing when he made Cthulhu part octopus. I defy you not to be at least a little creeped out by videos like this one.