And there have been times in my career, especially recently, where I’ve had somebody -- I'll just give the more recent example -- they included me on an email thread that I had no business being on because they were trying to flex their muscles by throwing me on it, which is an interesting move given that they don't actually respect me in my role. But they understood the game they were playing with the other people on this thread, and so by including me, it was, in essence, saying, “[Name] was aware. That makes it okay.” I was not aware. It did not make it okay. I never okayed any of this, but they gave this impression from the way they wrote the email, and the way that they included me, that I was somehow a part of whatever was going down. And so I was very quick to nip that in the bud, and said, you know, “I was very unaware I was gonna be CC'd on this email. I have no business being on this email, and I've not been a part of this to date. And here are the people you really should reach out to ‘cause maybe they have more context.” Which were just other men managers. I threw them under the bus quite hard. It blew up in their face quite hard. And my supervisor, who also -- my -- both levels of my supervisors were on the email, and both of them were just like, “Yeah, that was necessary. He was gonna definitely tank you in some way if you didn't speak up.”  So I don't really love to say, like, “Yeah, I throw people under the bus all the time.” No, but I'm very clear. Like, if it's my monkeys, and my circus, sure, I'll take responsibility, but if it's not, I don’t wanna be a part of it, and I'm not gonna sit by and have my reputation and my name attached to something that it shouldn't be, even if it's great. I don't wanna be a part of something I really didn't have anything to do with.

As I've been reading through the papers before shredding them, I have been made very aware of the great impact of inflation -- of raising the cost of everything. As I have been working on the years 1968 to 1970 for the past three days, I noticed that the envelopes that had been through the mail were bearing six cent stamps. That's what it cost to send a one ounce letter through the mail between 1968 and 70.  For one thing, it's impressive that the six cents remained the same over those three years. Today, a one ounce standard first class letter going through the mail cost 82 cents. A forever stamp of 82 cents. That's a lot of inflation.

Um, I did have one bus experience, one time, when I went on a -- I went on a field trip, and we had a bus driver and we were somewhere in the Detroit area and he -- buses are big. They're just -- I, I can't imagine what it would be like to drive a bus. I don't even like driving a large vehicle. But we were downtown, somewhere in Detroit -- pretty tight streets, and he hit a car, and we just kept going. And it wa- -- it was v- -- the weirdest thing. Like -- cuz he just -- you hit s- -- you hit a car! Like, you just -- It was a parked car, so no one knew, and he just kept going! I'm -- I don't know. We really didn't quite know what to do at that point. I was not in charge, so I didn't do anything. Maybe I should’ve contacted the bus garage and let them know -- I’m not sure. But I didn’t. Maybe, maybe if I -- it were to happen again, I would.

The friend who helped me get my current position also helped me get work at the studio, and she's like, “You quit working at the studio, right?” A- -- this is my frenemy. And so I told her, “Yeah.” And nope. I didn't. And not that she has to know, because she doesn't, but I don't even wanna hang out with her like that anymore. Like, it's good to hang out with her, but only in moderation, and it has to be -- things have to be so light because she's the type of person that I can see using and holding stuff against me. Like, on Tuesday -- er, not Tuesday. I mean, yes. My car got towed on Tuesday, by the way, from work. No reason why. When I went to the towing place, they're like, "Illegal parking? Where did you park?" And I was like, "Where I usually -- where I always park at work. There's no sign saying otherwise” And they're -- you know, like, there's all these -- you know, it says “Parking Available.” It never says anything about paid parking. It says free parking from these hours, and I was parked there within hours! You know, my friends a- -- my co-workers told me, “Oh, hey. It might be because of -- they were doing some construction.” And then they went outside, and they're like, “There's no signs there.” And I was like, “Yeah. Exactly.” Like, what do you mean? Anyways, I paid 340 dollars. Not a big deal. But, you know,] I was in the car crash and I couldn't even tell my frenemy that, because I -- she already thinks I'm a bad driver, and I already know how she would react if I told her I was in a car accident. She would be like, “Well, if only you weren't such a bad driver.” Like, she would not show an ou- -- like she would play along and pretend that she share- -- like, cared a lot about me, but she doesn't. She would hold it against me. She'd be like, "Wow. You were in a car accident." So instead, I just told her that my cousin got into a car accident, and I was in the car, and she -- she's one of those people where she was fishing for that information. Like, she straight up was like, "Oh, but…