today was the kind of day where if i had any other way to support myself, i'd have quit my job. i'm doing three jobs without guidance and with the most scattershot of support, and it feels like 99.44% of the time i learn what i need to know or what i need to do only when i screw up, because i didn't know the thing no one thought it was important ( Read more... )

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i was half an hour late to work this morning, because a. i waited twenty minutes for a bus, and then b. we hit traffic, because c. the city of somerville in its infinite wisdom decided morning rush hour was an excellent time to dig up a major street. my day did not get appreciably better. i mean, i didn't even eat lunch until four, and i spent my ( Read more... )

at work we have two word processors in boston (me and coworker d) and one in connecticut, and the woman in connecticut was let go today. coworker d texted me with this news - as i was on my way to services - and i replied with "well shit" and "what a horrible thing to come to work to on a monday" and "should we be worried?" she said no, she didn' ( Read more... )

so for a couple months we've been (theoretically) looking for an admin for the tax department at work, and yesterday i talked to a couple people from tax about that admin being me. the job sounds like half general admin and half tax-specific admin - like processing tax returns - and for about four months out of the year they're hysterically busy, ( Read more... )

today i left the front desk for like ten minutes and when i got back there was a doughnut for me! a nice yeast doughnut with dark chocolate glaze. and the woman who i know got it for me, i don't know her last name or where her cube is so i couldn't find her and thank her! (she just started on monday.) she's really friendly and yesterday we were ( Read more... )

work was soooo slow today, and then i came back from lunch and there was stuff to do! exciting.

What I just finished reading:
as simple as hunger, by d des anges, aka apiphile, which i liked a lot. just don't ask me what it's about, because aside from "politics and love and friendship and giant scorpions", i'm not sure i could explain it. (i actually ( Read more... )

yesterday my sister and i were talking about the new mission: impossible and lo and behold, ghost protocol is on right now. next time jeremy renner wants to seduce the bad guy. :D

we also saw ant-man, which i liked. i don't think i have anything to say about it, other than i'm glad the ants were so clearly cgi, otherwise i don't think i could've ( Read more... )

first things first, flist: what are your favorite first lines from books? fiction, non-fiction, whatever ( Read more... )

laser engraved rolling pins! they roll out patterns in your dough. there's one with a reindeer head print, for the hannibal fen in the audience. (yes, i know it's not a reindeer in the show. but the rolling pin has appropriate antlers ( Read more... )