*fling* I'm moving on career-wise. Last week I refused the rather decent offer to continue my current corporate position, so next Wednesday is my last day at Playtex Energizer. I hope there's enough pixie dust...

*whoosh* Tomorrow is the first Invocatio get-together with (almost) everyone there. We've got short performances in January, February ( Read more... )

Over the years I've passed along various bits of advice, mostly things I've picked up from people smarter than me. Stuff like this classic Joseph Campbell:

Follow your bliss.

The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be ( Read more... )

Forum: Listening to a composer talk about pitch for an hour and a half was a lot more interesting than it might seem. I'll be going back for the rest of the Listening Alive forum the next few Tuesdays. Also chatted with pied_piper70 there, which is always good.

Music: I've got a recording of the piece we made for the ballet, but I haven't heard back from S ( Read more... )

The Road Less Traveled:

Seek greater understanding, but do not expect greater detail. There are many who by virtue of their passivity, dependency, fear, and laziness, seek to be shown every inch of the way and have it demonstrated to them that each step will be safe and worth their while. This cannot be done. For the journey of spiritual growth ( Read more... )

The long answer to starlancer's question. Not terribly thrilling, really, but worth noting for later. Hopefully I'll be able to look back on this in 2013 and have a good laugh.

( This is what I do. )

Huh. While I was writing up my getting-a-new-job entry, bunches of people were busily taking a career test. So... hey. Why not.

( What is it that you do do? )

I'm looking for a way to pay my bills that involves leaving the more irritating parts of Corporate America™ behind. My time frame is three months.

( Pondering and details under the cut. )

The Elevator Tarot says Life and Death: The first person out of the elevator was an attractive young woman carrying a vase of flowers and smiling. The second person was an older, white-haired man carrying on a cell-phone conversation: "There's a crypt. They put him in a crypt." He was smiling too.

( It's a jambalaya of the mind... )

Today, I am the Printer Monkey.


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One of my job's "other duties as assigned" is assembling presentations in binders using an Ibico comb binding system.


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