Next week is something to look forward to. On Friday, the entire family is driving to Reno, Nevada to spend a few days in the junior Sin City. Not my ideal place to spend the weekend, believe me, but as I'm going to watch Keith Urban's concert while my mother rounds up the slot machine and dad tags along or retires to bed early, I'm not worried ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning not wanting to go to work. I thought maybe since I didn’t have meetings scheduled, no one would miss my absence for one day. But I didn’t call in sick. I dragged myself out of bed instead one hour after my usual wake-up time, showered and weathered the bad traffic and the too-gloomy-for-summer weather and got to work just ( Read more... )

What do you say to an employee who has had three letters of reprimand regarding discourteous behavior towards customers? How many times can you be warned of a possible termination before it actually seeps into your brain that your conduct determines your ability to keep your job ( Read more... )

I was asked to write and submit my biography to go into our training catalogue and somehow, I had the most difficult time doing so. I don't even know why. All of a sudden, I couldn't think of my achievements and the ones I actually did come up with didn't seem like achievements at all.

Weird.

SIDE NOTE: For the last few days now I've been ( Read more... )

I got this from Keri. Below is a list of the top 100 Grossing Films of all times. Bold - or italicize, whatever you fancy - the ones you have seen.

1. Titanic (1997) $600,779,824
2. Star Wars (1977) $460,935,665 ( Read more... )

Well, work's picking up. Things are shifting to high gear. The free time that used to bore me to insanity is gone. Slowly, but surely, my inbox is getting full and my to-do list is getting longer ( Read more... )

I watched the following movies this weekend and I must say, I enjoyed all of them! Not the kind of movies to watch when you need some cheering up but otherwise, they all tell a great story. Check them out if you get a chance:

21 Grams

Sylvia

A Loving Father (Aime ton pere)

Pieces of April

Yesterday, I was revising this job announcement for a classification called Community Outreach Worker that was due for posting like immediately. First understand that it’s the standard rule of the agency to "try" and fit the text of our job announcements to an 8 1/2 x 14 paper and no more. It is also our rule that our hard copy job announcement ( Read more... )

Vacation’s over and I’m back to my usual daily routine ( Read more... )

I'm back from vacation. Complete detail of its adventure and misfortune on my website. Read all six new entries if interested ( Read more... )