Uggghhhh. I am so sick of putting up with the neighbors' cigarette addictions. It's bad enough that they all smoke (you can see the smokestains on the back wall of the building, above every window and back door in all the apartments around ours); it's worse in summer, when airflow is a precious commodity. We can only have one of our front ( Read more... )

A family member advised me, as a confidence-building move toward a career, to look up Marcus Buckingham's book on discovering one's strengths. She didn't mention that the book was part of a series, or that it's specifically targeted to women. A guy who's founded his own company based on multiple books, some of them even pink, that tell women what ( Read more... )

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I woke up feeling good. For a change, and for a marvel. I was going to remember to take vitamins, wash my hair, finish the damn game at least once over, and start on my Vanna's Choice contest entry. And it was all going to kick ass, even if Jo-Ann decided to round-file me like everybody else. After all, I can't be sure of that one for a few ( Read more... )

( In which I am the singular of anecdote, whine that I don't *want* to follow the stupid rules, and prove that I am not considered an ideal fit for most jobs. )

So this bot has been friending and defriending me since AT LEAST May. It's done it over and over, so many times that at one point I deleted the notices from everywhere I could find them because they were polluting my inboxes like job phish. I reported it months ago and didn't hear from it again. Until today, when "byufor has added you as a ( Read more... )