Front Lines Communications

My boss wants to send me on a week-long business trip to Sunnyvale the first week of November. I would leave the evening of November 5 and return sometime between the evening of November 10 to November 12 as I might want to take a mini-vacation in San Francisco, but that is dependent on a few factors that I still have to determine. In light of everything that has happened, is it worth putting in a request for this trip? I will, of course, follow all the rules you have in place.

I don’t know if this will help but: nobody at my company knows that I am an atavist (aside from Nash Driver who is also an atavist), and it is not something I plan on mentioning to them if I can help it until I return at the earliest.

I know this is a terrible time and I’m hesitant to bring this up, but I’m being sent to Sunnyvale for an important work thing during the first week of November. I’m asking the Project if they’ll even give me leave to go, but I thought I would also give you the head’s up.

To make up for my absence (if the Project doesn’t get in the way), if there is anything I can do to help the cause while I’m out there, please let me know, whether it’s physically out there or remotely.

Also to make up for my relative silence over the past couple of weeks, if there is anything I can do to help whatever’s going on now before I leave, if I’m allowed to leave, please let me know that too. I’ve been having a hard time coping with everything, as I know we all have, and I know it’s no excuse, and I’m more than willing to do what I can now.