The office shut down for the last week of the year, and I spent almost all of it at home, sleeping far too late, and playing videogames. It was perfect ( Read more... )

When I was laid off from my last job, and I settled in to relearn programming, a friend told me not to think of it as learning to be a programmer: Programmers are always learning; at some point, you just call yourself a programmer ( Read more... )

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I've been laid off again, and I'd like help taking a month or so catching up with technology and programming, most likely with the goal of starting a new career, but also for my own fulfillment.OK-deep breath-let me elaborate ( Read more... )

When I started this temp gig, I threw myself at it with abandon. I'd been feeling sad and anxious and worried about not having work and maybe never having work again and being unwanted by everyone, and then there was some work. Yay! Everything fixed ( Read more... )

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This has been a week for musicals. On Sunday, I saw Reanimator: The Musical. I missed this in its initial run last year, but I am so glad I saw it now as it prepares for a tour to the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. If you have the opportunity to see it in any of ( Read more... )

I said I was going to post on Monday, but I didn't. I did, however, do productive things. Resumes have been tightened up and e-mailed. I also managed to finally drop my Mothers' Day gift at my parents' house. Today, I managed to wake up on time again and continue, doing laundry as well. There've been a few surprise social things that have come up, ( Read more... )

So this week didn't work out so well ( Read more... )

I was laid off from my job last week, with nothing in particular lined up for the future. I've got some savings and some severance, and I'm filing for unemployment. I'm going to be posting more, I think, as I try to get a handle on all my free time.

This journal has moved to Dreamwidth. Entry originally posted at http://tablesaw.dreamwidth.org/ ( Read more... )

I'm heading out now to my postponed holiday weekend, which means today's my last weekday as an employee of the firm before I get fired and rehired by a new company to do the same job for less. And it was pretty busy today, to boot. Luckily, I happened to put on Felicidade Mixtape #3 from Breath of Life as the day was winding down, which has done a ( Read more... )

Schedules are changing at work, and though that's usually something to worry about, things are working out well for me. My schedule is moving back 90 minutes, so instead of going into work at eight thirty in the morning and leaving at five o'clock, I'm going in at ten and leaving at six thirty ( Read more... )