My dogfriend Buster died recently, after having had cancer a good while. I've been thinking about him and his people a lot, and about times when I've suffered the loss of my own pets. I don't necessarily believe in spirits hanging around for a while after the living pass away (though I don't not believe, either), but I have seen Montgomery Clift, ( Read more... )

One more month of probation at work, then I get codes to the copier and postage machine. Yay? My supervisor is more disturbing than she was when I started: inside-out clothes (with random stains and holes), leaves morsels of food on her desk--not on a plate or paper towel, but on the unclean desk surface--and eats little pinches of cake or whatever ( Read more... )

Just dropped The Hub at the airport. He got the itch to wander, but I got the new job before we could go. My probationary period doesn't end for at least another two months, so he went on a smaller jaunt out East. He's going to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. I think some schoolmates are there, and he talked about go-go music in Chocolate City, so ( Read more... )

I started my new job today. I have a couple of weeks of training ahead of me. The office runs DOS, WordPerfect, and a bunch of proprietary software. 3 1/2" floppies, dot matrix printers, too. I remember directories and .* Yikes. Should be interesting. It's like I'm traveling back in time. It's a small office, with 6 or 7 people, with 3 of them ( Read more... )

Survived the interviews. The phone interview with the non-profit university (online book sales/facilities coordinator) went okay, but I definitely lack enough experiences on the facilities side. The interviewing panel--there were 3 people--didn't sound that thrilled with me. That's fine. I'm just glad I made it through the interview, though I had ( Read more... )

Another friend's divorce finalized today, bringing my week's total to 3. Then, I got a phone call for a round 2 interview for TOMORROW at 3, which means I do the round 1 phone interview for one place at 1pm. We're not supposed to go longer than 15 minutes or so, which is good because I have catch a bus at 1.55, so I get to the round 2 interview ( Read more... )

Wow. As soon as I posted about how my friends seemed to mostly be in a good space in their relationships, I found out that a college friend of mine's marriage fell apart: she left with the French tutor teaching their kids in Belgium. So, my buddy's come back to the States with their two adorable children and he's got them for at least the first ( Read more... )

Today, The Hub and I went to a local Himalayan/Nepali/Indian restaurant. Tara's sports a big yellow banner reading "The Best Yak Chili in Town", so we've been teasing each other for years. He had the yak chili, which was more of a stir fry of onions and peppers with lean slices of yak meat, in spices. Very good. I had a mango lassi, vegetable momo ( Read more... )

I don't know if it's the summer sun, or something else, but almost everyone in my California life right now is having a much easier time in their romantic relationships. They've either broken up with partners they'd long been delaying breaking up with, made different efforts in getting along with their partners, or decided to think differently ( Read more... )

The current head pain cycle's down to sporadic spikes of sorta-migraines, nausea and a permanent sinus ache. I feel pretty good, believe it or not. I sleep as much as I can, avoid dairy and am considering reducing wheat. I don't know what to do anymore. Because I felt better than I had, and we hadn't been out together in a while, The Hub and I took ( Read more... )