Despite unemployment, I have not gotten nearly as far to date in my contract project as I think I did in the "audition"*, but part of that was me just being stupid.
*which was not actually an audition for anything but wherein my qualifications for the current project are that I was overenthusiastic among the collective proofers, despite working for ( Read more... )

Helper was a thorn in my side as per usual, with the usual footnotes [read: I recognize the need for cross-training, even when it's at a hinderance to myself, because that's just how it works]. I think what gets me the most is her paranoia on my behalf--we had 270 checks today [medium-large load], but even when it's 100 checks, I get this horrified ( Read more... )

FWIW, I don't hate Twilight anymore, though I still find it insipid. This helped me get past the existence of harmless* fluff:On judging people's lowbrow tastes in entertainment:

I have a friend who will watch or read only light romantic comedy -- nothing serious, or deep, or painful. The reason? She works in Child Protective Services. She sees ( Read more... )

I'm tempted to paste in the notes I've been taking of stuff that comes up on XM that I need to hear again and/or acquire, before some freak accident wipes them [gave up Notepadsync, and the default notepad doesn't export], but I'm lazy [would need to fuss with posting from mobile, which is hassleous]. Also, somehow I feel like I'm giving something ( Read more... )

It's only going to lose its freshness... so. =B


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I am out early because the only other person who bothered to show up was Other Supers, who came in at 10:45 and decided she would leave at 2 so I could [read: had to] leave at the same time. Return trip was significantly less crap, at least. Problem is I get to spend all my extra free time [after writing all this crap] working on a guide before it ( Read more... )

Char being the space-case he is, he will watch reruns of The Universe if they talk about Mars. [This isn't a criticism--I'll watch reruns of MythBusters if it's... ANY of them.] It's interesting, the amount of debate that goes into Mars, but the greatest debate is whether we should eventually colonize space, Mars being the most likely candidate for ( Read more... )

I am going to try to stay with the intent of my original post and avoid mentioning the usual work bullshit. We'll see how I do ( Read more... )

The truth is I really want to write about things I want to write about, but the laws of cause and effect/actions and consequences show that doing so can inevitably lead to nothing but sorrow ( Read more... )

Got dinner for tonight and a 25% off copy of the new "Angels & Demons" by the da Vinci Code guy. I already read through the prologue for Book of Five Rings, though, so I might as well finish that out ( Read more... )