Haruspex Stuffie Says, "Let It Go"

Communications have been kinda weird the past couple days--in this, that, and the other way––and then last night I got a condescending message from the Regional Marketing Director (whom I've never met) cautioning me about my FB postings. 

But the MD gave me legal information that was wrong: that we had to have written permission to post people's photos on FB.

It was like a missive from someone who'd studied Marketing in the 1980s and hadn't revised since. Color Me Beautiful.

I found the correct information ("no, we don't even need verbal permission in many cases, but I always get it, because I'm nice that way"--took me 30 seconds to google it), and emailed it back...

Aaaaand... right on cue, up popped my little angry friend, Resentful Bear!
I was SUPER annoyed half the night about this incompetent Marketing Director, who, I fumed to myself, I'm sure is not making minimum wage like I am.
 
Hey,  I should sew a Resentful Bear!

Brief break to report that yesterday I starting sewing the divination liver for Haruspex Sheep!

Here, at a nearby café >

Photo by Julia

The sheep's for a high school class on Roman Comedy, taught by a friend I met while studying Classics in college.

I decided to stitch modern symbols on it so the students could use it for their own divination purposes--
like those old Magic 8 balls.

(This liver here will be folded in half and stuffed.)

I could have asked the liver, "Should I send this snarky email to the Marketing Director?"

BIG SQUARE = Stop, no.

Luckily, I'd re-read my email before sending it and removed all snark.
(I think... It was hard to scrub all the lingering disdain stuck in the serifs of the "and's" and "the's".)
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It's interesting and helpful to try to observe myself as if I were a scientist: 

"Observe the adrenaline coursing through our subjects veins in response to a receiving misinformation from a marketing director--our subject is reacting as if she were under threat, and yet objectively there is none..."

Silver Lining:
I woke up thinking we should have a Social Media Policy. 
I'm the one doing 95% of the FB postings this summer, but it'd be great if others posted too. Having legal, ethical, and even marketing guidelines spelled out makes sense.

I wrote to the Marketing Director and asked if such a thing existed or if was in the works (as in, Maybe YOU are writing it?).
Ha.
As if.

Haruspex Sheep says, hit the "Forward" button and MOVE ON!