I have to make a confession, and I'm doing it here primarily because I've tried to extract myself from social media just beyond the point of keeping up with people specifically in my circle (read: C's mum and our handful of local friends, in case of get-together deets), the side-effect of backpedalling on that being dilution of the emphasis I (try ( Read more... )

Shit, you guys. I never meant to not post in so long, but I for real did not mean for my last post to be so long ago that maybe you thought I'd died ( Read more... )

I feel inexplicably competitive when it comes to a specific license, such that though I am a mere fan, I feel compelled to "outdo" everyone else on the scene... maybe you know what I'm talking about, but it doesn't matter. My main point is I'm perpetually at this bizarre crossroads where I want to do ALL THE THINGS for X, where X is a thing I have ( Read more... )

I think I blew it today, but to be fair, I did as I was told... and just happened to get stuck when questioned ( Read more... )

So here's a thing! Our CFO is gone. This makes TWO times a CFO has been dismissed where I've temped =p [though, at Caketown, I was permanent by then ( Read more... )

Despite the subject line, I did manage to survive the week of receptioning... somewhat. Each day was basically learning what I should have done/for the next time that won't come ( Read more... )

I should write something up while I remember.

The only free gaming night was, oddly enough, Father's Day, so we headed to Casa del los Zorros and tried a dubious game. How dubious? THE FIRST TURN took us AN HOUR ( Read more... )

The broken air conditioning is still broken on account of the A/C people the Muggs have(/had?) a contract with have failed to come through in any sense, so Sears will be coming by Thursday to repair it. [The other guys can sod off, is the plan ( Read more... )

So this happened:Falco: Julie, a guy from XYZ is coming by to pick up a check from AP*, I told him to get it from you at the front desk between 10 and 2.
Me: Okay.
*hereafter "Apey" 'cause I'm SO CREATIVE[four boring-as-fuck hours and five minutes of receptioning later, at 2:05 ( Read more... )

I keep remembering why certain date-specific things really should be planned WELL in advance, rather than somewhat last-minute [even after allowing what feels like adequate time]. I expect better people than I am would be able to do what I think I can do "last-minute" [for me, about a week of idle consideration], but this is something I don't quite ( Read more... )