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Today my boss told all of us employees that if business continues to be as slow as it has been, she may have to cut some of our hours. Fucking fantastic. That's just what I need -- less money! Yay for the Great Depression 2! This is the first time that I've felt the current economic crisis affecting me in a truly scary way. I really, really hope that the economy gets better soon.
In better news, however, I'm finally working on that application for the $10,000 writing grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. It's due in just a couple weeks, and I really should have started it a long time ago, but I've been slacking off a lot just out of sheer laziness. But now that I've started the application process, it's not as tedious as I thought. And anyway it'll be worth it if I'm actually (*knocks on wood*) selected.
Oh, and I saw my mom at work today and I asked her if she knew that my cousin Becca was pregnant. Turns out Becca actually sent out an email announcing the news, with ultrasound pictures attached. So I guess I literally did not get the memo. :-P My mom says that Becca might not have had my email address and probably assumed I'd been told by my parents, so that might explain it -- but I dunno. I'm not as concerned about it as I sound, it just kind of cracks me up at how badly my family fails at communicating sometimes. They just assume that everyone has been told shit by everyone else, so inevitably some people get forgotten. (And by "some people," I mean "me.") Anyway, Becca actually left me a Facebook message today asking me how I was, so I wrote her back and told her that I'd heard the news. I didn't say anything about how I found out because I didn't want to make her feel bad. Probably the last thing she needs right now is for someone to go all "zOMG why didn't you tell me?!!!111!!1" on her. That kind of ranting is what LiveJournal is for. ;)
I didn't know what icon to use with this post, so I settled on Captain Jack Harkness because he makes me happy. <3
In better news, however, I'm finally working on that application for the $10,000 writing grant from the North Carolina Arts Council. It's due in just a couple weeks, and I really should have started it a long time ago, but I've been slacking off a lot just out of sheer laziness. But now that I've started the application process, it's not as tedious as I thought. And anyway it'll be worth it if I'm actually (*knocks on wood*) selected.
Oh, and I saw my mom at work today and I asked her if she knew that my cousin Becca was pregnant. Turns out Becca actually sent out an email announcing the news, with ultrasound pictures attached. So I guess I literally did not get the memo. :-P My mom says that Becca might not have had my email address and probably assumed I'd been told by my parents, so that might explain it -- but I dunno. I'm not as concerned about it as I sound, it just kind of cracks me up at how badly my family fails at communicating sometimes. They just assume that everyone has been told shit by everyone else, so inevitably some people get forgotten. (And by "some people," I mean "me.") Anyway, Becca actually left me a Facebook message today asking me how I was, so I wrote her back and told her that I'd heard the news. I didn't say anything about how I found out because I didn't want to make her feel bad. Probably the last thing she needs right now is for someone to go all "zOMG why didn't you tell me?!!!111!!1" on her. That kind of ranting is what LiveJournal is for. ;)
I didn't know what icon to use with this post, so I settled on Captain Jack Harkness because he makes me happy. <3