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@maladaptivetiny Just my opinion, not speaking for the Admins or anyone else, but I think topics like this are evergreen and can reappear every so often to allow new users to contribute and old users to revisit their contributions. We don’t need to make everyone conduct an exhaustive excavation to determine whether it’s come up before.

Today is typical in that I’ve got and endless list of tasks, none of which is either difficult or interesting, and I plug away without any feeling of satisfaction or pride, and then she shows up, poking her head around the laptop screen. She’s still got her clothes on, but I know that won’t last forever. She strolls casually along the top of the keyboard, and I scroll my work to the top of the screen so she can’t obstruct it. She stops and mischievously dotes on the power button, earning a sharp glance from me. She shrugs and returns to her sauntering, “accidentally” pressing a couple of function keys. Keeping my eyes on the screen, I use the thumb of my right hand to crack each of that hand’s knuckles. She makes a defiant expression that I pretend to ignore. Now the thumb and fingers of my right hand are twitching, rubbing against my palm. I’m looking more at her than at the screen. I keep looking at her as I get an incoming email notification. I take a deep breath and open the email. She doesn’t attempt to evade as my right hand leaves my mouse and curls around her. The email is from my supervisor. My enclosing fingers press her to my palm. My open eyes are on the email, but my attention is with my caressing and molesting thumb.