Month: July 2002

  • Straight Good News

    Hey there. Guess where I’m writing this from? My job! That’s right, I get the job back, and I am in at the office for something like an hour and a half now, and there’s no one else here, and so I don’t have a whole lot to do, so I’m writing a quick little…

  • Bad News

    I lost my job. Remember how my new friendly boss had said, go ahead and have a week with your mom? The reason she was able to do that was because she had to juggle her budget around and essentially create a new position for me. According to university policy, she had to post it.…

  • Good News

    Here’s the good news: I had a great time with my mom this past week. She found a huge white lily just growing in the yard behind the mint plants, and brought it into the apartment, and that just set the tone for the rest of the week, somehow. We had a great time going…

  • O, Victoria

    Vacation! I love vacation! I don’t count the time of my unemployment as such because I didn’t go anywhere and was sad all the time. I like the kind of vacation that involves going somewhere new and having fun and going out for a nice dinner, whereas being unemployed is more about sitting by the…

  • Squeaky Clean

    Hey. Come over to my house right now. No, really. My house is soooooooooo clean, and I need you all to come over right this second and just look at it for me. Validation, please! As is required by law, I am cleaning my place intensively immediately preceding my mom’s visit in about 48 hours.…

  • Finally

    Well, I did it. I got a job. I start Friday. I’m going to be working on another research project, in a completely different department, doing similar work to that I did before at my old horrible job, with a different population. My new boss (who, oddly enough, shares a name with my former crazy…

  • Sunshiny Day

    Apparently there’s nothing like shopping to put me in a good mood. Even though I’m broke. Even though I don’t like shopping. I think the key here was that a)I wasn’t shopping for clothes, and hence didn’t have to undress under fluorescent lights, and b)I was actually shopping for birthday presents and kitchen implements, and…

  • July Forth

    That’s where I didn’t go today. Forth. As in, out of my house. Okay, I’m lying. I went out once to check my email this morning (next door) and then I have ventured out again this evening…a full twelve hours later…to write tonight. Needless to say, there have been no cakes in the shape of…

  • Personal

    It’s been about six months since I started this journal, can you believe it? Me neither. It hasn’t catapulted me to stardom and financial independence yet, but neither have I gotten any hate mail either. I guess I’m coming out even. I’ve been thinking about this journal, and online journalling in general, all week. First…