Fancy new jobplace is fancy. They have a workout room, and a game room complete with arcade machine, and wi-fi hotspots, and showers, and sustainably crafted sunflower seed hull cabinetry. (Though not a proper cafeteria.) They could use a few "you are here" maps on the walls, but I'm only getting lost on the way to the breakroom half the time now ( Read more... )

Um. So it's been two months? Really? Well, at least there's something new to write about!

Point 1: Changed jobs. I actually found a decent office job with a later shift (2-11 PM)! It starts June 1, provided nothing unexpected happens. Which brings us to -

Point 1a: Finally conceded that this ridiculous persistent fatigue thing is NOT a symptom of  ( Read more... )

Still have a job! Woo hoo woo hoo woo hoo! *happy dance* Man, all that fuss and anxiety over the layoffs, and they only ended up affecting 5 employees and 4 or 5 open positions out of 497 total classified jobs at the agency. There are still several funded open positions, so the people whose jobs were eliminated will probably just get shuffled into ( Read more... )

Dear Universe,

Are you quite done yet? The sheer amount of, well, crap that you've thrown at me over the past few weeks is pushing the bounds of probability. While I do appreciate that it could be a lot worse, and there's so far been nothing I can't handle, this is getting a bit old. Once the dust settles from these various situations, I expect a ( Read more... )

Yay, happy shiny Moon landing anniversary! Humans should totally go back. Or maybe to Mars. Or build a moon base from which to go to Mars... yeah, that! (Do you know how many NASAs we could fund out of the Defense budget? I can't be bothered to look it up, but it's a LOT.)

( cut for spoiler-ish Doctor Who fangirl mumblings )

The left side of my scalp is sunburned from commuting to work this week. Owwie. (East and south in the morning, north and west in the afternoon. Yeah, lots of sun.) Last year I got freckles - but only on my left cheek and jawline. Looked pretty funny, but at least it didn't hurt to brush my hair ( Read more... )

How lazy do you have to be to pay someone to make you a burrito? Friday-evening-long-week-at-work lazy, that's how! Went to the new(ish) Chipotle on the NW Expressway and got a vegetarian burrito with guacamole and extra veggies. It was pretty good. Spicy, flavorful, and humongous. I think it rolled in somewhere around 800 calories without meat, ( Read more... )

(Well, a bit longer than brief. The Week In Boxers, then?)

So, "In Flanders Fields" was running through my head today, but my brain decided there ought to be "sharks" instead of "larks," and now I have this crystal-clear and utterly strange mental image of bravely singing sharks soaring above fields of poppies.

Work is good. Nice people, and I ( Read more... )

Cut because it got long...
( Job, books, red shoes, moss, and Waldesruhe )

Whoa... head spinning... too much new information. Today was a little chaotic. I think I'm going to like the new job, though. Nice people and a fairly relaxed office environment. (And "you won't get in trouble for staying late once in a while, but don't make it a habit"? You don't say ( Read more... )