(continuing from yesterday's count: FOUR of five ( Read more... )

- took one of the sleeping pills last night, which had no effect for several hours. Still counting sheep until 3am ( Read more... )

Having been at the current workplace for one single month, I've accumulated enough stress that a doc has told me to take a couple days off or, essentially, explode ( Read more... )

Slept far too little last night, got into work late, racked up more time-debt on the timesheet. Got home, went out for dinner, most expensive and off-putting Indian dinner I've had in quite some time. Actually could not finish eating, it was that bad, and got charged about twice what I'd expect from a normal Indian restaurant and three to four ( Read more... )

But work and travel and sleeping and paperwork are taking up most of my hours. And days ( Read more... )

It seems the current workplace is a flaming straitjacket full of fighting fish-licences.

There is just so much that needs fixing it's not funny.

This year's stress attack in five, four, three...

I must have filled in close on a hundred applications, sent nearly the same number of cold letters, and signed up with every employment hunter and site around ( Read more... )

Once again I find myself trudging through the dripping, squamous buckets of HR weasel words which make up public service position selection critera. Unfortunately, the particular buzzwords of the month have changed since I made my last application ten years ago, so I have to do some rewrites on the cut-n-paste paragraphs I used to drop in with a ( Read more... )

Talked to finance people today and yesterday, and will do so again tomorrow.

Their take: Although there is no light at the end of the tunnel, there is the possibility of an ancient candle stub, a box of damp matches, and a sign saying NO MONSTARZ HEER, U BELEEV ME RITE?

On other news, these headphones:

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Had a coffee-chat with KD from the little inner-city business clubbie thing that met on the tenth. Didn't really get much out of it. May have overdominated the conversation through nervousness; certainly seemed to spend more time talking about what I did than what she did. Nice enough lady, but I constantly got the feeling we really had nothing in ( Read more... )