Cumin and cinnamon

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Yesterday I struggled a bit with what seems to be a management vacuum on the modeling team. They’ve been through 5 leads in 6 months, with the perennial problem that no one seems to expect coordination to actually be as much work as it is, and immediately either burn out or step back to pursue other commitments. I'm extra angry about it because PMS on top of the whole :waves: everything, but so far my better judgement has prevailed and I haven’t exploded at anybody about it yet (though I did vent to P, which helped. “You do care about the people you work with though, right? When they’re not actively being jerks.” “Augh. I suppose”).

Anyway, team leads worked through the modeling team goals for a whole hour with the expected warped idea of what priority means, then I got a surprise free afternoon since the viz meeting was moved to this afternoon. Spent it on verifying the JHU fixes and coordinating sending that out, clearing my GitHub notifications, setting up B to take over the engineering meeting for me this afternoon, and filling in Thursday and Friday with more meetings.

Dinner, crossword, finished Dragon Prince, started The Gift, which turns out to be in Turkish! I was surprised at how difficult it was for me to identify; I guess the dialect I hear from Aysenur Altan’s YouTube has a different pattern. Snack, sleep, dreamt of finding a disused kitchen kitted out with a wood-burning stove (nice) and coal-powered microwave (wtf subconscious).