I will be keeping my promise to my husband who loves me and worries about me to enter and leave my office building at humane and sensible hours and to actually take a lunch break as often as possible from this week forward...but today I was nearly an hour late to work (not that anyone ever notices) because of a veritable comedy of errors concerning ( Read more... )

Cats are love ( Read more... )

Now I like to joke that the F word is one of my favorite words and, indeed, there are times when it punctuates my vocabulary a bit more than it ought to, but wow, compared to what I'm learning about people in general, I'm practically a nun.

Part of my job now is processing the opt-outs, you know people who do not want to recieve our marketing ( Read more... )

It's frightening when you realize that there is so much you need to change about yourself that the mere act of attempting to write it down is overwhelming...which does tend to shoot the "try not to be so easily overwhelmed" resolution all to Hell ( Read more... )

1. 
   I went to work early so I could leave on time.
2. 
   ...but I'm still working late.
3. 
   I miraculously had access to LJ today, but very little time to take advantage of it and there was very little to read when I did.
4. 
   I actually was able to set aside enough time for a lunch break away from my desk...only to find that I left my book at home.
5. 
   The ball just got ( Read more... )

Some of the worst wild fires Southern California has ever faced have been raging through San Diego County, Canyon Country, Malibu - Fires?  Malibu? Now there's a shocker - and Orange County since Saturday night.  This morning, Lake Arrowhead joined the club.

More than 600 homes have been lost so far and at least one life.  According to one report ( Read more... )

The biggest of big bosses sent out a state of the company address today and included a comment at the end about how proud and hopeful he is to work with us because everyone who is here today was offered the same severance package - a pretty generous one too - and elected to stay ( Read more... )

There is a particular phrase that is simultaneously near and dear to the hearts of and deeply dreaded by the employees of my particular company (and those of you who work/have worked for my company anymore probably don't even have to read the next line to know!):

Under the bus as in throwing someone or being thrown under the bus.

The literal ( Read more... )

I heard two very interesting tidbits of news on the way to work today, one of which gave me hope for the eventual triumph of humanity's more thoughtful better nature, the other of which made me doubt such a thing exists at all.

Good new first.

Dear Abby/Jeanne Phillips, well known advice columnist and sometime cultural icon, officially spoke out in ( Read more... )

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned this morning after months of poorly conducted responses to scandal.  As is normal in such situations, his departure from office is both too little too late and is due to scandal that should have been laid at his door for any one of a number of reasons other than that which actually became it's focus. But ( Read more... )