Very interesting piece if you want to check it out:

http://www.redroom.com/blog/tim-wise/this-your-nation-white-privilege

I had such a great week with Indigo. She is on vacation this week so we've been spending lots of time together. The highlight so far is going to the drive-in , yes, drive-in, and watching a double feature of The Dark Knight and Get Smart. We had so much fun ( Read more... )

People keep asking me how crazy working pride was in Toronto and I've just kind of said that Pride was busy. Not entirely a lie because it was busy, but I wasn't working it ( Read more... )

In short, Toronto Pride sucks. It's a "free" festival but you have to go into beer gardens to hear any of the programming and you aren't allowed to bring in any food or even water into the gardens. You have to buy everything there ( Read more... )

Why is it that in all of my jobs I have only ever had one good boss. Yes, he drank all of my diet coke all of the time, but that is nothing compared to what other things I have dealt with. Why is it that when a staff manager is hired that they don't do reference checks with someone who has worked under them so that the interview committee can ( Read more... )

Indigo's aunt died last week and we went to the funeral. It was a sad day ( Read more... )

I worked for 12 hours. At the end of my day I had to let someone go. Yup, I had to fire someone for the first time. He cried. A lot.

The end.

I keep meaning to post but never know what to say. So far, there is TONS of drama at work. Oh, and I found out that at my last job (you know, with the psycho boss) that my replacement as quit already ( Read more... )

What a trip. I am still exhausted from it and have gotten very little sleep. The day I arrived baby Julian was born and that was just the beginning of a very eventful trip. I managed to see Mel a bunch of times but also saw lots of other people. We stayed in Fairfield but wound up driving back and forth to and from the Bay 6 days out of the 8 ( Read more... )

I took a test for my work retreat. It's called your Emotional Quotient or something like that. It's the emotional version of your IQ ( Read more... )