The blizzard's over.
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The brutal workweek we were expecting turned into a very light day of work today and...that's it. Because that's how things go sometimes ( Read more... )

--As some of you know, we're abruptly back to work at Casual Job for a week or so, and we expect it to be on the brutal side. Meep.

--I'm still open to posting topic requests/suggestions if there's anything you'd like to me to write about.

--One of my Casual Job co-worders got three kittens over the weekend! I'm excited to hear about them, but so ( Read more... )

--Overall, my DW/LJ are likely going to stay fairly free of overt political stuff, but I've been reading a lot of posts and thoughts in the wake of the US election and will probably do some sort of linkspam in the next couple of days.
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I guess I was getting a bit cocky about feeling like I was staying on top of not-work things for the first couple weeks of Casual Job (enabled by the fact that the hours haven't been ridiculous), but sometime in the last 48 hours or so my tabs have exploded a little. (The me of not that many months ago laughs heartily at this number of tabs ( Read more... )

Casual Job swallows the rhythms of life whole and gnaws the bones to toothpicks. And Hallowe'en has never really been one of "my" holidays, for all that I love the crunch of autumn leaves and the glow of jack o'lanterns, so it's no surprise that most years now it vanishes barely remarked upon. (A few years ago Casual Job started up for the fall on ( Read more... )

As reported on Twitter yesterday, a bit of purely fannish happiness: as of yesterday, at least three people I know were actively reading Deadline. Interestingly, none of the three are among the several people I know who've read Feed at some point in the last few years and either consciously opted not to keep going or just haven't gotten to it yet; ( Read more... )

This'll be the first full week of the fall session at Casual Job, and I'm taking the fact that we didn't work today as a good sign for us having Mondays off (which is really good for me in terms of staying on top of my deadlines). ("Mondays off" officially became the way of things a couple of years ago [?] [!], but it's turned out not to be the ( Read more... )

--It's not really surprising that I kept thinking it was the weekend today, since yesterday was my last day at Casual Job until some unspecified time in the fall. Every time I "clear out my desk", I leave more things at the office rather than lugging them home just to bring them back in a few months; this time I think only one bag of stuff came ( Read more... )

--Metric concert Wednesday night! I...have failed completely at listening to more of their catalogue than was already in my playlists, which means I'm more familiar with their later work than the older stuff, and only really know (the first half of) Fantasies and an erratic scattering of other songs. Oops? ^^; Anyway, it turns out a few people we ( Read more... )