Well, my book may be coming to an end. CS4tS made Amazon take my book down. (Abbreviating their name just so it doesn't come up in any internet searches. If I made it too obscure to figure out, think Poultry Stew 4 da Seoul.) I've asked a friend who's an author and a lawyer whether she thinks I should enlist the services of a copyright lawyer.
Aw man Fuzzy, it sounds like those interviews didn't pan out? They were probably crappy places to work at anyway. Keep hunting.
If it helps to know that you're not alone, I'm on the depression wagon today too. I'm still feeling like a crappy, unoriginal writer who isn't even loved by her own cat.
Sorry the job hunt isn't going so well, Fuzzy. That blows.
I'm just right back to tired. It is now 2:30 on Monday and it feels like it should be 4:30 on Thursday. Yet another in a chain of arse beatings being unleashed upon me at work. I'm not complaining as I'd rather be busy than not, just sayin'... not sure how they will survive 4 whole work days without me.
Currently on a conference call for one of my big projects. Everybody has a foreign accent, none of them are matching accents. And the PM for this project is fairly useless. Far as I can tell, her sole function here seems to be take really crappy notes that don't even mean anything to her, open the conference bridge, and ask "okay, who can help fix that?".
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Thanks for thinking of me, Fuzzy. The one thing I probably do need to at least get started if not finished before I go is my mid-year review paperwork. I hate doing those things, but it seems I have largely cleared the deck for working on that.
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Okay, send stuff on over, Fuzzy... seems I knocked the mid-year review out of the park. I was anticipating a massive effort at it all up until I got out to the website. Basically, there is a list of my goals with a configurable "status" button which I updated from "not-started" to "in progress", then there is a box for the free-form text where I am supposed to put my commentary about my goals. They give me 1000 characters. I managed to baffle a bunch of BS in there that sounds like a response to all of my goals in 991 characters. So yes, I can go back in and add "I ROCK!" if I want to.
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If you look to the left of the truck there is a big boulder. It has a twin that you can't see because the truck is high-centered on it. The tow truck had to jack up the back end and slide over.
-- Edited by Mad Mema on Friday 19th of July 2013 02:56:50 PM
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I told my supervisor that I did the math on it and I could have just typed "I ROCK!" 142.8 (rounded up) times. He laughed at that, and replied that he was thinking "My team ROCKS and so do I." was going to be his commentary. Happy corporate puppy that he is, I'm sure it will be more expansive than that. On the up side, whenever he gets around to my feedback it should be stellar. He was falling all over himself to tell me how he has been so impressed with my work of late and that he is amazed that nothing has missed a beat since Little Man has been gone. What can I say? I'm the schiznit around here.
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I honestly forgot what it is like to have a nothing kind of day at the office. I wish I would have had enough characters left to include, "And I do all of my own stunt work."
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I'm pretty sure the landscapers put those there to keep people from cutting that corner and ruining the grass. It's not like that is a narrow drive either. It is a wide two lane drive with enormous curbs. Took some real effort to get that trunk high centered like that. I didn't hang out to see if they actually drove it off or if the half shaft was trashed. When I last looked at it, the tow truck had the back end jacked up enough to put the front wheels on the ground.
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Me, to my boss, while I'm yet again fixing a customer's screw-up: "What would you do if I couldn't fix this? What if I won the Powerball last weekend?"
I may have finally made a little headway with the big boss about moving up. We were discussing the tumor in my head and I told him of my theory - I was smatrt when I was a little kid ad then I got dumb. When they remove this thing from my head I will be smart again. That led into a discussion about not needing abything more than a high school degree to woek here, So then I asked him, "Then why do I have four college degrees?" Then we had the degree conversation. And it led perfectly into the promotion thing, helping my boss out more and learning new tihngs but not having the timr, He was impressed by my educational background, Told me he would speak to the even bugger boss about using my talents. So, somehow I may have started something. I told my boss I just needed a little time with our boss. This was an accident. Imagine where I could have been two yearsago ifI could have had a real conversation about this with him.
Progress. Maybe.
I will apologize for any misspellings. Since I am not seeing too well, it has been tough. And the above paradraph is too long to try to edit.
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It might be a stepping stone. They are talking about bringing in a temp if I have to have surgery and be out for a while. Not that I can be replaced by a temp and it wouls bw hard to show anyone the quirks of my job/ But if they decided to keep a person or hire another, it will be the beginning of a transirtion.
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I hear ya. Would love to see them try to put a temp in my job. There is fundamentally only one other person who works for this company who has the qualifications, and that is Little Man. Gotta love the "transition" process though. I'm patiently waiting for our next one. Based on what I was told, I have another couple weeks to wait. Already got the "spoiler alert" for the headline as far as I'm personally concerned. Just can't wait to hear the actual "why" of it. Could be any of a number of reasons, all of which end up good for me... I'm just wondering the specific flavor because some are better than others.
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