Today was a good day, and surprisingly productive. Woke up early, no alarm, after a good night's sleep, and relaxed for several hours before riding my bike to work at noon. Had lunch, got a bunch of things done, had a chat with the money-holding owner and negotiated myself a hefty raise (like 25%), got a call from the prospective manager who has ( Read more... )

Since we're much more productive in the office without a certain disruptive person in the desk next to me, I'm getting a ton more done, but now I also need to actively take breaks (especially when i work 10 or 11-hour days at least 3 times a week), so I've decided to try and be a little more active on this while I'm spending more computer time at ( Read more... )

things are crazy and busy, but i think overall good ( Read more... )

what does it mean that i immediately thought of martha when i saw this?

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it appears i may have started writing again. it's not very good, but i'm rusty, it's been a while. hopefully this is a good thing, especially if it gets me out of my own head and ideally out of my apartment. we'll see.

a lot of ups and downs this month, as i suppose would be expected ( Read more... )

my latest blog post got linked in a really smart discussion of sex positivity and feminism and porn culture and kink-oriented discourse, totally my kind of thing! i am excited...

okay, back to the rest of my day

(honestly, anything else i could post there is gonna feel boring after this...)

still haven't gotten my sleep schedule normal yet -- it's hard to make yourself get up early when you really don't have anything you *have* to be awake for and your body wants to sleep till 11am. but i'm working on it ( Read more... )

just got denied unemployment benefits because they claim i didn't earn anything between 10/1/10 and 12/31/10. fuck the state government for making me jump through extra hoops before they'll award me my claim. fuck tabla for not filing their information with the state if that's what happened. fuck my life because without unemployment benefits my ( Read more... )

i don't remember what it was that made me go update my online dating profiles tonight, tho it's nice that i'm no longer listed as living in georgia or florida. it's all moot anyway since i'm not giving them money. but then i figured i should look at ok cupid and see what that's about, since i know folks who use it a lot, with varying degrees of ( Read more... )