I don't know what's more precious: listening to Brits and Americans argue about language, or being Polish in the adjacent table trying to not wince at words like 'inrevokable' and 'nukeelar'. Girls, girls, you'd both fail the exams I need to pass to prove 'fluency', so stfu. Played Star Trek RPG with folks, had a blast. I love that everyone 'knew' what my character concept will be, each had a different guess[0], and they were all wrong. At first, we wanted to play in the TNG era, but it quickly turned out that the only trek we all have seen was Lower Decks, so we're going with that one for convenience. BTW, thanks kb for recommending 'nu Treks' - I (hopefully obviously) wasn't one of those people averse to it because of 'woke', but a couple episodes of Discovery really gave me a bad taste and overall opinion somewhere between "why everyone's first response is to punch other's shit out?" and "why would you make this wannabe Vulcan as the lead? Even I am more likeable than that ffs!" made me hesitant. Then I started hearing about producers having a hardon for Section 31 and went 'pass' pretty much until I've seen your genuine enthusiasm. [0] - My favourite one was "Trill, but the symbiont will imbue him with memories of something borderline useless, like five generations of sailing or MS Access."
Super late, sorry! Just applied to a job being a community program manager within my current employer, same department but different division. Not convinced it's the right choice but it'd get me away from this team and that's a solid first step. Beyond that, the new union contract isn't great for me so I'm voting no. Solid pay raise but limited term still gets essentially no other benefits everyone else does, and that's not okay. So a no it will be. Super cool to have "Doctor" Oz leading CMS though :(