I wound up passing on applying to the job I posted about previously. It was very intriguing, but I just wasn't ready to think about it.

I did, however, put in for this one: CMO Project Manager [Process Engineer I/II]. It's through a recruiter, so I don't know where the actual job is, but it'd involve up to 25% travel anyway, so whatever. And ( Read more... )

Read the title of this article, and maybe even the first sentence.It doesn't say until HALFWAY DOWN that "Consumers are considered the biggest contributors to the contamination. We consume drugs, then excrete what our bodies don't absorb. Other times, we flush unused drugs down toilets. The AP also found that an estimated 250 million pounds of ( Read more... )

Someday I will get around to making my own 101 things in 1001 days list. Chris and I have talked about sharing one, but we've decided to see how far we can get on our own individual ones first. He thinks our goals are too divergent, which is a little distressing, because we still have to live together :P However, he massages me at the drop of a ( Read more... )

Yeah, I don't much fall in with the whole "resolution" thing, since they don't work. That seems a common theme on my f-list...

but there are many things I would LIKE to do. and these are some of them:

1. Lose weight. I am participating in a "Biggest Loser" challenge at work. I know that I will not win, because it's going by percentages and I have ( Read more... )

you know how I said that taxpayers are going to get stuck with the bill for all the people who are losing their houses?To be fair, it's CNN, and not the actual bill itself. But god knows I can't read that much legalese on a GOOD day, and a good day this ain't ( Read more... )

We seem to be having trouble keeping track of this, so I'm posting this here for our reference. You can observe (or not) as you see fit.

( weekends through June )

hooray ( Read more... )

instead of being morose about my impending doom, i've chosen to be angry at the world. people i love already don't count in that, so you're all safe ( Read more... )

you know how at most workplaces, the end of the year means time to clean up loose ends, do your year-end reviews, and maybe even take a long lunch to do some shopping?

HA!My ONE direct report and I have to submit about 50 or 60 documents in the next week. Plus our group is supposed to manufacture some new products, for which we don't even have ( Read more... )

I have SOOOOOO had it with being someone else's goddamn flunky ( Read more... )