I'm formatting a script for "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." This job is a lot of fun sometimes. I liked the movie but I love the theatrical version; the movie clunkily makes literal a lot of things that are supposed to be Hedwig's figures of speech and her sick sense of humor ( Read more... )

I just did a task on Mechanical Turk, you guys ( Read more... )

More job applications.  I got a holiday job as a retail drone in Big New England Department Store (tm), but I need something lasting and at least slightly fulfilling, so I'm using this respite to fill in more damn apps ( Read more... )

For those of you who hoped I would post more about my day job... this may not be what you'd hoped.  I am so sorry ( Read more... )

Well, just a camera.

Seen at the Italian restaurant where kestrell and alexx_kay and I celebrated Kes's birthday. Princess Leia is alert beside her favorite glass pumpkin.


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I'm home sick.  Had to miss out on hanging out with friends, a party, and a dance thing, and I'm crabby as hell about it.  Runny nose, very low-level cold and sore throat ( Read more... )

It's pouring out, and Studly Boss finally conceded that we should cancel tours for the rest of the afternoon.  I'm at home, with my feet up and the fan pointed at me, enjoying having nothing to do right this moment.  It's my first day off in two weeks. *is virtuous*

I promised asakiyume that I would start blogging about my worklife more often.  She is ( Read more... )

Very pleasant morning spent learning cleaning techniques at the museum.  The place is badly in need of a thorough summer-cleaning, with fall-, winter-, and spring-cleanings to follow just to make up for months of neglect, but they're willing to pay me for four or five hours of overtime curatorial dusting and polishing a month, and I'll do what I ( Read more... )

I'm renovating part of my parents' house, and today this involved moving five bookcases and their contents and reshuffling a sixth.  And so I did one of my periodic weedings-out of books to sell, and went to the used book dealer's shop with a whole trunkful.  (The book dealer is a great guy: old and grizzled, Beatles haircut which has come back ( Read more... )

oh gods is it yet another of those fact-gathering LJ posts?  YOU BET YOUR BIPPY IT IS.

Job applications!  What are the questions that you hate, hate, hate, on written applications or in live interviews?  Besides all of them?  Yes, I have a semi-secret plan to do with collecting most-hated questions; if it works out well, you'll find out eventually.

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