This is my last public posting. Not that I will be posting much, I suppose- but I have purged my friend's list and will be locking my entries from now on. If this is the last you hear from me, good luck in your various endeavors.

Some times the forest has to be clear cut for something new to grow.

So I've spent the first two days of unemployment seemingly doing nothing. Of course I filled out unemployment insurance applications, registered for work and applied to about ten jobs. However, I always feel like I'm not doing anything when I am looking for a job. It's sort of irritating ( Read more... )

Well- remember that potential lay off I was talking about? Seems to be that it is starting today from the hours of 2 to 3. Two people have gotten called out of my test bed; one of them is the test lead. So I figure that either they are dissolving our test bed or those are the only two they are keeping. We'll see, I suppose. I'll update should ( Read more... )

My roommate found a low quality copy of the new Arcade Fire album. I am reserving full judgment until I have heard a better recording but at the moment I rather like it. It's so deliciously 80's! It really sounds like Funeral but with a strong Dark Wave influence. Muhahaha. I have a better encoded version downloading currently, but it seems ( Read more... )

Looks like there is a possibility that they are going to be cutting jobs at Ye Olde Housee ofe Bingoe. Of course, this would be after I stopped my job hunt out of frustration. I am the secondest newest hire so it seems to me that if they go up the list, I'll be the second one cut. Of course I also slack off and generally hate this place- so, ( Read more... )

This week starts a new schedule at work. Since they eliminated overtime they have decided to allow us 4x10 schedules. Since I absolutely despise Mondays (no- not the beginning of the work week; just the day Monday. Everyone's cranky because they know everyone else accepts that one can be cranky on Mondays. It's annoying.) I took Mondays as my ( Read more... )

So I stopped smoking on New Years. It was my major New Years resolution; I've made it a whole month without a cigarette. I have had four drags of a smoke, but that was, seriously, like 1/3. It was, mainly, to assuage the heinous withdrawal ( Read more... )

I look evil in this pic, anyway. But it's the only one I could track down. I don't think it's very representative. Which could explain why I got the Asian guy. But I find it to be humorous anyway!


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I went to dinner tonight with Anne and it was delicious! We went to a vegetarian restaurant called Mother's here in Austin. It's apparently quite well known; I'm told their brunch is worthy of homicide as well. I had a wonderful spinach salad (and it was a real salad- not those sad justlettuce/justcarrots/justatomato things one generally gets) ( Read more... )

Employers should allow a two drink maximum at work. I was talking with Anne in IM's about how word would be so much more tolerable if I could nurse a gin & tonic before lunch and then another after lunch.