At this point, it's time to start making plans.  I don't foresee the work situation making enough of a drastic improvement to warrant staying there, so right now I am aiming to give notice in mid-September. This will give me the month of October to pack up and get moved out ( Read more... )

A gorgeous man is cooking for me while we watch Star Wars.

(Granted, it's Phantom Menace, but you can't win 'em all.)

Really, it's turned into a very good day. :)

Watching MTV's "True Life" about girls with body dysmorphia (dysmorphism?). One of the girls uses the same Bare Esecentuals/Benefit combo I used to.

Sad episode. Both of them are gorgeous.

Wee One is now in charge of our group. That should just be a riot of fun and adventure ( Read more... )

My supervisor quit, which is sort of a pleasant surprise (but who's going to replace her ( Read more... )

My supervisor has been out sick for two days ("What else is new?" Lefty groused). I wrote her an email politely, non-aggressively asking why I wasn't included in the rereads, and then apparently scared the shit out of HR in what was either my finest moment or the biggest screwball mixup of 2010.

Watched Daybreakers with the BF last night, who was ( Read more... )

I'm trying to track my "sob entries" to see if there's a hormonal curve my brain is following ( Read more... )

I spoke too soon.  Just rejected my second article.  Woo-hoo!

Asked him to cite sources. He set it back into process without doing so.  Ciao, divo!

Wonder if he'll protest...

Okay, so...I don't care to get into the work situation (it is tanking badly), or the friend situation (yay for spending hours in the ER) or really, anything else, except I decided I should "know thy enemy" and applied as a writer to the freelance place ( Read more... )

Well, I got my first performance review for the freelance gig, and now I don't even want to continue anymore, ha ha.

Everyone on the CE boards discusses how awful the first reviews are.  Mine isn't mine-bogglingly horrible - mostly stuff to watch out for.  Apparently I frequently miss the bigger picture - thing is, I used to be pretty good at  ( Read more... )