The person who is going to be my new boss stopped by my desk on her way home this evening. She is a woman who looks like she is about 10 years older than I am. She does not look like she is insane, which is, really, all I ask in a boss ( but not always what I've gotten in previous bosses!)

Our class training is scheduled to start on Monday, 9/18. However, she said she would "see me tomorrow and see me next week" - so it's possible that I will be sprung from my current position earlier.

By "see me tomorrow" she meant at a lunch which is scheduled for people to meet and greet their new bosses ( and their new employees! I suppose this poor woman was coming by to see what kind of riff-raff she'd had assigned to her team)....

I hate work/social events. I'm beyond terrible at them. I have enough trouble with work related work, and, though I am a truly friendly person, meeting new people causes me to experience anything from mild anxiety to raw terror. Add to that a situation in which I am supposed to eat something without any of it landing on my blouse...that's too much to handle for someone like me, who only recently started wearing high heeled shoes again.

If there's soup, I'm dead in the water.

Still, as in all things I have to do my best. I seem to remember having some social skills at one time. I wonder where they are? They must be around here, somewhere....