During my lunchbreak, I was sitting in the Sweet-Ass Temp Job's break room (yes, I am back here again!), enjoying my copy of Judith Halberstam's Female Masculinity while eating pasta with fake meat sauce. As I was trying to decipher whether Halberstam considers the 1980's cultural feminist conception of the stone butch sexual identity as stemming ( Read more... )

This morning, I was given a ticket to the Newseum (which, unlike most museums in DC, is ridic exspensive).

This afternoon, someone wanted to use the scanner/printer at my desk so I spent two hours curled up reading Nobody Passes in one of the big cushy arm chairs in the lobby while she scanned/printed, answered the few calls that came in, and ( Read more... )

I have returned to the grand and exciting (ha, ha) world of temping! I decided to temp post-graduation because a) it meant I could be lazy and put off finding a real job, b) I can just decide not to take assignments when I want to do something else with my day (like my tattoo consultation Thursday!!), and c) it's profitable ( Read more... )

Monday: productive day ( Read more... )

So if anyone notices my apparent absence from either the internet or my social life, you can blame it on two things ( Read more... )

Today while I was at work, a good number of people came up to me and went, "So, I guess today is your last day, huh ( Read more... )

So one of the things I've been doing the past few days is typing up responses on workshop evaluation forms. For an ethics workshop, answering the question "What impact, if any, do you think this workshop will have on your work?" someone put:

I'd like to think I am already quite ethical.I'm not sure why, but this CRACKS ME UP. Omg. This person is ( Read more... )

So the job is going well - everyone's still really nice, the work is boring, but it varies so that's okay (Tuesday I put stuff in folders, and the last three days I've been alternating between data entry (SUPER BORING) and... okay, also data entry, but it's information about the association being mentioned in newspapers, and is more interesting. ( Read more... )

So here's the update on the place I'm (hopefully) working at for awhile: I'm technically an "Adminsitrative Services Assistant," which means I sit at a desk positioned where all the elevators let off, answer any calls that come in, and do any mindless work that anyone doesn't want to do themselves (so far, I stuffed a bunch of folders - they had ( Read more... )

All my unemployment woes may be solved! I don't know how much I've mentioned it in here, but I've spent a good part of the last two weeks worrying over whether temping was the right decision to earn me money: for the past two weeks, the temp agency only gave me one job ( Read more... )