Fuck Tuesdays. Seriously.

[musedmoose]

Learned today that, when our per-item pay rates next change, the thing that I do the most will pay less. This is an item that hasn't gone up in years - the last time it changed, the pay for it went down. It's what I spend most of my days working on. And why? Because, as a department, we're too good at it. Yeah, so much for all those lies we

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[musedmoose]

Thanks. And yeah, I will use caution - the Woman In Charge is pretty nice, but my boss warned me we were lucky to only get as much of a cut as we did. It could still mean ~$50 less per paycheck for me. So it's worth saying, "I have proof the numbers are skewed, but if you say no, I won't argue."

And yeah, I've been considering the Harper Collins thing. Just did some spot revisions on the book over the past few days (my characters 'start' and 'begin' to do things a lot, fixed several dozen instances of those), have only a few more things to check on before doing more submissions.

Also: beating on things with my monk turned out to be great stress relief; I'm feeling much better now. ^_^

[musedmoose]

I appreciate that, thank you. ^_^ Oddly enough, it's not the first time this sort of thing has come up in my life; I just sort of hoped it had gone away by now. @_@

[kaleidors]

I'm glad that the head lady took your critique seriously and that you feel better about the situation now.

But why does perceived as being pure be a reason to not be hit on? Pureness I would think as a hot feature :( (It was hard for me to admit to myself that I'm not pure as the driven snow... more kinda dirty and used.)

But with the hair thing it does sound like she's rather hard to please :D

[musedmoose]

You're not like that, stop it. :P

And I think the pure thing makes people assume I wouldn't be interested. Hell, someone once told me she was afraid she'd corrupt me, and I was like, wait, WTF, you don't even know... @_@

[kaleidors]

Ok, maybe dirty and used are too strong a words for what I want to convey. Growing up evangelical Christian, purity was a big thing for me (no drugs, no alcohol, no sex, no cussing, etc etc) and it was very humbling for me to find that I was no more pure than the next person, since I had put such a value on me being "pure".

I ran across this women's story about her purity ring, and this part really rang true to me...

I realized that I had valued my purity more than my intelligence, or my creativity, or my love for others. I had elevated my purity above everything else. I had boasted of it, flaunted it, cherished it. And suddenly I found myself questioning the value of “purity... I took a deep breath and left behind the need to be pure or to label myself with terms like “pure” and “impure,” “virgin” or “slut.”re:people commenting on your purity; maybe you just need to be a bigger flirt? The flirty response to, "I'm afraid I'm going to corrupt you," is "Do your worst," with a saucy grin--or even a wink, if you're a complete

[musedmoose]

Makes sense that you'd feel that way, if that was how you were raised. I've never liked the idea myself, but I've grown to dislike most labels as I get older, and that's another journal entry. ^_^

And ugh, I've never been a good flirt. A lot of it is that it's rare for me to find someone I'm genuinely interested in who isn't already with someone and seems interested in me. Kind of used to it by now. *shrug*