I had a conversation with the attorney who serves as our privacy officer about the attorney who got all yelly and she said, in so many words, "I honestly have no idea how you deal with the things you do."

I could only think to say, "It's only at great personal peril."

Later, I volunteered to assist with the rewrite of the Department's procedure governing verification of the authority of a requesting party to receive confidential information. Part of the process is sure to be hopelessly bureaucratic, but I'm kind of looking forward to it. Policy development is far closer to the job for which I interviewed than the endless documents processing I've been doing. Maybe I'll get a resume stuffer out of this yet.

Fancy tha'...