Re-Evaluation

If Ver is figuratively wrassling with weighty international affairs, I'm figuratively sitting on a hammock in the shade with a cool breeze blowing through the floppy banana palm leaves above me. Figuratively is, of course, the operative word, since I'm taking a couple of lab science requirements this semester and am thus prevented from engaging in any and all real life hammock sitting. I'm managing everything ok though. My biggest worry at present is how and when to tell my boss about my new revolutionary life plan. She's always been very supportive of my enrolling in classes and following my interests. She lets me come in late or leave work early so I can get to class and asks how things are going and what I'm learning about. Every year, when personnel orders us to do the yearly employee evaluation dance, she asks me what my plans are. I say I have none, apart from sitting at my desk and doing what I've been doing. Then she tells me what her plans are, namely that she's planning on retiring in a few years and she's happy I'm there and ready to take over her post. At that point, I'd say, "Me too!" and we're done.

Eval time will come around soon enough. I wanna come clean well before then, because it's a big change and I don't want to catch her off guard. I'm trying to get the timing right. But even so, I'm afraid she'll be mad and think I was being all sneaky, having these secret plans but all the while pretending nothing's going on. And I can't say it's not at all true, because, well, I've been making big plans and not really telling anyone. But that's mostly because this plan began so crazily and seems too crazy to still be going, that it's kind of hard to share with people who you want to actually take you seriously, like your boss for instance. I suppose there's no use getting all anxious about it. I'll have to say something eventually, and when it's done, it's done.