Yesterday, I found out my cousin is getting divorced in a extremely complicated situation that basically involves a transgender murder plot, and it put my own life's issues in sudden perspective. Suddenly, being anxious over playoff hockey seemed a very slight burden to bear, in the grand scheme of things ( Read more... )

Okay, it's been almost a month since I started the new job, so I guess I can kind of try and evaluate it now.

( Well, at least here you'll be treated with dignity. Now strip naked and get on the probulator. )

That morning I was standing on a berm with Lieutenant Fick and several Marines from Bravo Two surveying the rolling Martian landscape by the airfield at Qalat Sukar. We were pulling out, and the place suddenly looked beautiful in that way something does when you know you will never see it again. I was sure none of us would be back, at least not in ( Read more... )

Two full days of staff meetings and interviews for our new executive director, my two hour commute home, and hockey have all conspired to leave me in a bad mood, and all I can do is sulk on my couch and begrudgingly write tonight's entry to work myself back to normal. Except now I don't know what to write. So I'm combing through my Words.doc to see ( Read more... )

I'M TOO UPSET TO POST. MY COUSIN HAS USURPED MY DREAM.

( From one of his recent emails: )

Normally, this would be an entry about the zombie velociraptor apocalypse. But tonight, the apocalypse has been canceled! Because I just got formally offered a new job I've been interviewing for, so I have to go make merry and try to figure out how I'm going to hand in my letter of resignation without any of my current coworkers trying to knife me ( Read more... )

Yesterday in a stunning display of grace, athleticism, hand-eye coordination, and good old fashioned boneritis, I somehow managed to hit myself directly in the face with a grocery hand basket. (Fortunately, most of the groceries were out of it at the time.) I can't even explain how I did it; I don't think the three other people in line with me ( Read more... )

No one close to me has died since the last time I posted, the Nats made the playoffs, and the monstrous CEO I work under is leaving the company. Of course this means my company is currently in complete anarchy and on the brink of collapsing, but honestly, I'm still counting this last month as an overall win, which is unusual but something I'm not ( Read more... )

Off to San Diego for work, and excessively grumpy that it's actually easier to stay awake and wait for the Super Shuttle coming in three hours rather than trying to snatch some sleep. No one blow up the moon while I'm gone.

( Like, more death talk. Sorry. Still doing a lot of that. )

Ugh. There is no one to blame for that loss but ourselves. That was just heartbreaking. It hurts even more to lose after two good periods and a shit-the-bed collapse in the third, second game of a back to back (to over time, with Philly, which is not exactly a spa day) notwithstanding. I actually had to go into my basement and yell for a while. And ( Read more... )