Given that Hallowe'en's coming up, you shouldn't take too much stock in that title ( Read more... )

oh hey I meant to post that I should not have to look for a job until after the new year ^_^ which means I can officially plan to attend MAGFest and not worry if I'll even be employed then to take off ( Read more... )

I just got a call from the agency asking if I was open for a one-day job tomorrow ( Read more... )

So, I don't know how many of you are aware of my feelings about birthdays, but the short of it is it's a day that is only truly important to me and, as such, has a heightened sense of expectation surrounding it with the highest probability of letdown ( Read more... )

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[seemingly nonsensical subject line where I don't feel like thinking up a better one]

Actually, this is a fantastic point thatAccording to Waldfogel, gifts on average "generate 20 percent less satisfaction than items we buy for ourselves." The "deadweight loss" increases in inverse proportion to acquaintanceship because the less well you know the ( Read more... )

So, despite the highs and lows of the month, I have managed to reach my Nano goal--A DAY EARLY!!1 =D I can sleep in! [took the day off in case I couldn't finish]

I will keep writing, of course, until midnight 1 Dec--at which point I will go back to work on MLCS :p 'cause, you know, I'D LIKE TO FINISH THESE IN ORDER. Not that there's a real flow to ( Read more... )

I am amazed by the number of problems people have simply in not being able to say "no" or "you're full of it." [I have this problem, too, note.] For instance, today's Ask Amy: ( Wherein a husband cannot say no to petsitting a problem dog and wife cannot say why do I have to do all the work. )

L'Academie had a catered luncheon or other from Panera, which only sort of means free food. I mean sort of because I'm not the kind of mooch who will walk in and take like EIGHT OR NINE LEFTOVER SAMMICHES from what's technically someone else's company dinner out from in front of them. However, I would gladly take what was there once the people ( Read more... )

What's going to be our downfall is habitually visiting the family in PA on Sundays and staying late [after... 6?], for as long as this gaddamn construction is going on for 270 S ~~DX:: Tonight, it took us TWO AND A HALF HOURS to make the one-hour trip, because people don't know how to fucking MERGE. Most sickening was being subjected to the ( Read more... )