I got back from a great trip with family and partner to see the eclipse from Kaskaskia. I'll write about that and other stuff that's been going on when I have a few minutes to spare ( Read more... )

Gah. I *really* hate doing job application/resume stuff. It's so easy to lose hours in stressing and tweaking things and feeling like if I don't have everything exactly right then HORRIBLE THINGS will happen ( Read more... )

It's been so long since I've biked somewhere in a real rainstorm; that was wonderful ( Read more... )

I was so wiped out at the end of work this week. Once the big annual charity event for Red Door was over around one today, I went home and fell asleep on the couch. I'm awake again, but still sore and tired. I am looking very much forward to my day off tomorrow. I hope to be up to a long bike ride somewhere; it's been a while! I was thinking about ( Read more... )

I'm not sure when I was last this sore. We had a hay delivery at the shelter; at least a thousand pounds of hay in 25 pound and 50 pound bales in boxes. We store them in stacks two wide and up to about eight feet high in a strangely tall, narrow room that I soon realized was once a staircase ( Read more... )

I went out with Piper this morning and saw an elderly man walking by our building. He had short white hair, what looked like a brown-bag lunch, and camera equipment that cost the equivalent of a decent used car. (A 70D and some *big* L glass.) I'm really curious about where he was going, but Piper was being slow, he was moving fast, and I didn't ( Read more... )

At the shelter I work at (as opposed to volunteer at) this week, we took a delivery of something like a thousand pounds of cat litter. Our delivery driver backed into the alley by our building, but then realized that there was a garbage truck in the alley behind him. He asked one of us (I went) to come out and block traffic so he could move his ( Read more... )

Today was my first 'all animals all the time' Thursday. I was at my shelter job from 9 to 10:30. Then there was therapy at 11:00 to 11:40. Then dog walks at 12 and 2. Then the shelter job until 5:30 followed by shelter 1 from 6 to 9. I'm *so* sore, but I'm *so* content with my working and volunteering life right now ( Read more... )

I heard back from the shelter manager yesterday; the job is mine if I want it. I do! *tailwags ( Read more... )

I just finished up my resume and cover letter for a full-time position at a local animal shelter. Thanks to Wendy for pointing me at the opportunity! Danae and others have told me that a number of things might be better if I was more comfortable being myself instead of trying to fit myself to what I think people want. So in my cover letter I did ( Read more... )