Appointment with my therapist today... also, last night, my folks went shopping at Market Basket (I know, I know, we're supposed to be boycotting, but they only got a few things).... and one of my supervisors passed on a check I'd somehow gotten for the week before last. I'm stymied, as I haven't hardly worked in the last three weeks. Someone was ( Read more... )

I was all set to go to work, was up, gotten dressed, had my hair done up and was about to go downstairs to make my breakfast before heading out to work... when my dad met me on the stairs and told me that one of the supervisors had just called to tell me I didn't need to come in. That I've been more or less laid off. My dad even went down to the ( Read more... )

Woke up this morning to vehicle horns honking down the corner: car horns, truck horns, box truck horns, fire truck horns, some kind of tootley horn, BIG HONKING BIG RIG HORNS. Horns everywhere, to quote a Plurk friend. And then I remembered my fellow employees had gathered down the corner, despite the heat, to hold up signs and protest: "Honk for ( Read more... )

I'm in a better frame of mind than I had gotten into last night: Got myself busy making up a master list of all the Yami no Matsuei drabbles that I've hammered out for 1_million_words's "100 Words in 100 Days" challenge. I've been using a prompt list from the fuda_100 comm, and I'm down to the last thirty prompts. This got my mind off the corporate shenanigans going on ( Read more... )

Had a feeling we'd go to Northampton Beach tonight: today felt warmer than yesterday, particularly since the humidity crept up (possibly left over from last night's thunderstorms). Work today, late morning/early afternoon shift: not much of note, aside from some antsy kids and their harassed parents (To kids poking at each other because they ( Read more... )

Still had a bit of fog from the upsets this week. Still short on inspiration when it comes to writing, so I'm weathering this by reading things. I found my copy of "Lost in Austen", probably the first ever Choose Your Own Jane Austen Adventure, in which one can play out several interconnected Austen novel plots (and some original stories as well). ( Read more... )

Finished reading "Behemoth" in the wee hours of the morning (and since I had somehow forgotten to renew it last week, I had to make a hurried trip to the library to return it). All I can say is "WOW! (and where's the last book?? since the library's copy of it seems to be AWOL)". I'm looking forward to seeing where the band of steam&biopunk brothers ( Read more... )