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| Friday, May 19, 2006 |
| And the Hits Keep Coming... |
Greetings, gentlefolk,
I will be answering your comments some time this weekend, so thank you all for posting and please don't give up from the nonresponse.
A few updates on my end --
The Negative
- We're losing another editor at my day job. For those of you keeping track, 1 has already left. This on top of the fact we were already short-handed to begin with.
- Another of our editors has become increasingly unreliable, attendance-wise.
- One coworker's (another dept) mom died from cancer.
- Another coworker's mom (another dept) had a stroke.
- The freelancer who's on a 2-week trial period for a permanent position doesn't seem to be handling the workload and fast-paced environment very well.
- Someone "chopped down" a lamp post as well as a street sign near my home. The lamp post's base is the only thing left, and the sign post was severed at the base and laid on the ground.
- I was late in paying one of my bills (which is occurring more and more often, gah!).
- Zits keep attempting to make inroads on my face. Aren't zits supposed to be confined to teens? How did I get so lucky?
The Positive - The job fair didn't have too many prospects for me, but at least I got a t-shirt out of it and saw Mission Impossible 3 afterward with me mum (um, improbable, but mindlessly entertaining).
- As expected, I didn't win top prize (among a group of 15 nominees) at the company, but did win a cash award, which I also got last year (lest you think I'm hot stuff [ha!], so did about 19 others).
- Although there was no advance warning given about construction men appearing on my side of the building (home) -- the first I knew, they were bopping against my windows as they went by -- I was most thankfully completely dressed after my shower. No mortification for me, thanks!
- One of my dear buds will go with me some time in the near future to see Bodies: The Exhibition, which I mentioned here. Whoo hooo!
- Got my 3 work references and 2 of 3 personal references lined up. Huzzah! Next up, meeting face to face with the executive recruiter to go over strategies to get me where I need to/should be.
- My sister in law has a new job.
- X-Men: The Last Stand and Over the Hedge are coming up! Yessss!
- I got more nice, freebie, brand new clothing from the basement. And they're pretty. And they fit. I just need more pants, please. (Greedy? Who, me?)
Please stay tuned and feel free to let me know how you feel about me via my quiz on the right. Or you could post comments. Either method is fine. |
posted by Cheshire Cat @ 5/19/2006 01:11:00 am   |
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Blimey, you really have been busy. Good luck on the job front.
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From the "Negative" side, it sounds as if the universe is telling you that you need two weeks in Bali.
Barring that, maybe you should consider wearing a helmet. Take care of yourself, Tea.
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As to your quiz/poll, I didn't take it 'cuz I don't like the choices offered. Where's "thought provoking", "sincere", "caring", "interesting", or even "obviously Super Woman since she's insanely busy all the time"?
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ZOMG You deprived those poor construction workers of a free show!? Bad tea, bad!
But seriously, you're lucky considering other people may have it worse, and also I was wondering, what is it that you do for a living? At first I thought you were an accountant but when you failed to understand the test results that was thrown out the window lol.
Cheers and I hope you have better luck from now on!
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Princess Fuff, thank you for your gracious words. :-)
Lady Sarah, I don't think a trip to Bali is quite possible. Not only am I saving up but the likelihood of having terrorist descend on me is not a calming prospect. ;-) I think a helmet and bomb shelter might be in order. However, I thank you most gratefully for your kind thoughts.
EC... stop, please stop. You're filling my head with pride and arrogance and all sorts of terrible things. Can't you see the huge swollen lump on my shoulders? ;-) Thank you for the wowzer compliments. *blush* But go ahead and play with my poll. It doesn't have all bad choices.
Schnubelhopper. Please! You should say the construction workers are lucky to be in one piece! If they'd seen me... well, let's just say madhouses still exist. At any rate, my building always does this. They say advance notices will be up for when construction folk or others might be wandering past our windows and doing work, but does it ever happen? Of course not. Thank goodness I remembered to carry all my clothes to the bathroom that morning. Geez!
An accountant?! You think I actually know any math? Silly you. :-)
What do I do? For now, I'm an editor. You know, the mean person who's always picking on people's spelling, grammar, writing, etc. Yep, the crone with the red (or green) pen.
Thanks for the good luck; sending them your way, too.
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I voted sexy. Will you hurt me? =(
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Lol, Charlie. I think you can vote more than once. At any rate, I have more options now. See if any of these suit, please. :-)
Schnubel: Now why would I want t hurt you for such a lovely compliment? ;-)
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The lamp post and road sign were like that when I got there, honest!
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Sure, PK, sure; is that why you're trying to pin the blame about the grafitti on me now? ;-)
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Blimey, you really have been busy. Good luck on the job front.