At the Ren Fest last weekend, one of my friends from the wood booth was saying that she thought of me as one of those people who has a place for everything and everything in its place. I protested this. I am so not one of those people. At home, anyway. At work I’m a little more rigid but I think that’s one of the reasons why lab work suits me. We ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to make a post but dang life has been kind of crazy these days ( Read more... )

Wrote this on Friday. Trying to post it from my iPod since my computer is not working right now. Life is just crazy-making sometimes ( Read more... )

Wow. It’s been, what, 9 or 10 months since the last time I wrote in this blog? Sheesh. That’s … a little crazy ( Read more... )

A friend of mine died last month. I hadn't written about it because I just couldn't figure out what to say ( Read more... )

Three weeks of work now. It's been pretty nice. I have to be there earlier than I'd like but it means I get to go home early too, which is very nice. My commute is a little on the long side (~35-40 minutes) but it's not too bad and is mostly traffic free. And the traffic I do get on the way in is all front-loaded so I get it over with fairly ( Read more... )

First week of work is done! I submitted my time card and should get paid some... time next week? I never actually asked if I was weekly or not. My experience with contract/temp positions suggests weekly though ( Read more... )

My first day at work was today! I had to wait until my criminal background check came back and it took a week, then the company wanted me to wait until Tuesday so they could spend Monday getting my cube, computer, and access all set up ( Read more... )

Woohoo! I got the contract job ( Read more... )

The most important thing to get out of the way is that I didn't get the MBC job. Oh, well. I wasn't particularly expecting it but I was hoping. However, after updating my resume at a couple of online places a couple of weeks ago I got a whole bunch of emails from contracting companies with short-term job offers. I sorted through them and replied to ( Read more... )