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Cat is not dead!
Nov. 2nd, 2007 06:05 pmNor on fire.
Nor buried in rubble.
(Congrats to my parents who've finally looked at a map and realized that CA is a huge state, and thus preempted the panicked phonecall about the fire by San Diego. Also, I had my first earthquake. It was so lackluster that I mistook it for wind rattling the windows.)
Merely feeling the effects of working 40 hours a week in an office that's going to hell in head basket while the HR Director goes down with the ship after throwing all the deckhands overboard in an ill-advised attempt to keep the business from sinking further into the red.
Also, my attempts to follow up on my interview made a complete 360 as people passed me off to other people who eventually referred me back to the first person I spoke with, who only told me the same information I already knew.
I am tired of my employers playing the tease.
Reel me in, or let me go, just don't waste my time!
Btw, Halloween in Family Student Housing is the coolest ever.
Tons of toddlers dressed as princesses, monkeys, Optimus Prime <3, chibi-Draculas.
My favorite: a family with dad in full cardboard armor and cape, mom in medival gown, and tiny son in her arms in a dragon suit. *dies*
I dressed as a witch for work, and my co-workers loved it. Jeremy wore his cat ears and we took turns answering the door. The kids liked the Oreos and the chocolate eye balls.
I've finally gotten my poster tube of wall posters from my parents and have reinstated my old room decorations in the nook.
I miss my Chicago friends.
Also Mitch Hedberg.
But my Chicago friends aren't dead, so there's a good chance I'll see them again.
I'm trying to think of things to get Jeremy and me out of the house, but other than seeing a movie, I've not had much luck. At least new movies will be out for the holiday season.
Usually my family would all go out to a flick the day after Thanksgiving... maybe I'll abduct Sushu.
I like any plans that involve abducting Sushu.
Kristen's pregnancy is going well. She tells me that the baby is squirmy lately, always moving. My mom says that she is getting huge. She oughta be, she's got less than 3 months left!
Whenever I go shopping for work clothes, I always go on a safari into the kids departments, to find tights or pjs or dresses for my nieces and nephew. I wonder if the clerks think I'm a mom because I have clothes from the infant section of the girls, toddler boys, pants from the juniors, and dress shirts and sweaters from the women's all in my cart...
I can't keep my thoughts in one place. Probably because my heart is in too many lately.
And it doesn't help that finding a permanent employer feels more like striking out at singles night.
I'm trying to find similar dives here in Santa Cruz, but the lack of familiar faces isn't going to go away, even if I find another Noodles or Uncle Joe's. Even if I put up all the posters I had in my old room and all the old JAS flyers I've saved. I've made a couple new friends, from work and at FSH, but my assignment is ending soon and my RAs are probably moving away next year.
How do you socialize without an 'in' with school or work?
Also, offices have cliques at lunch time the same as middle school. (Apparently I'm part of the Popular Crowd, wtf?)
Nor buried in rubble.
(Congrats to my parents who've finally looked at a map and realized that CA is a huge state, and thus preempted the panicked phonecall about the fire by San Diego. Also, I had my first earthquake. It was so lackluster that I mistook it for wind rattling the windows.)
Merely feeling the effects of working 40 hours a week in an office that's going to hell in head basket while the HR Director goes down with the ship after throwing all the deckhands overboard in an ill-advised attempt to keep the business from sinking further into the red.
Also, my attempts to follow up on my interview made a complete 360 as people passed me off to other people who eventually referred me back to the first person I spoke with, who only told me the same information I already knew.
I am tired of my employers playing the tease.
Reel me in, or let me go, just don't waste my time!
Btw, Halloween in Family Student Housing is the coolest ever.
Tons of toddlers dressed as princesses, monkeys, Optimus Prime <3, chibi-Draculas.
My favorite: a family with dad in full cardboard armor and cape, mom in medival gown, and tiny son in her arms in a dragon suit. *dies*
I dressed as a witch for work, and my co-workers loved it. Jeremy wore his cat ears and we took turns answering the door. The kids liked the Oreos and the chocolate eye balls.
I've finally gotten my poster tube of wall posters from my parents and have reinstated my old room decorations in the nook.
I miss my Chicago friends.
Also Mitch Hedberg.
But my Chicago friends aren't dead, so there's a good chance I'll see them again.
I'm trying to think of things to get Jeremy and me out of the house, but other than seeing a movie, I've not had much luck. At least new movies will be out for the holiday season.
Usually my family would all go out to a flick the day after Thanksgiving... maybe I'll abduct Sushu.
I like any plans that involve abducting Sushu.
Kristen's pregnancy is going well. She tells me that the baby is squirmy lately, always moving. My mom says that she is getting huge. She oughta be, she's got less than 3 months left!
Whenever I go shopping for work clothes, I always go on a safari into the kids departments, to find tights or pjs or dresses for my nieces and nephew. I wonder if the clerks think I'm a mom because I have clothes from the infant section of the girls, toddler boys, pants from the juniors, and dress shirts and sweaters from the women's all in my cart...
I can't keep my thoughts in one place. Probably because my heart is in too many lately.
And it doesn't help that finding a permanent employer feels more like striking out at singles night.
I'm trying to find similar dives here in Santa Cruz, but the lack of familiar faces isn't going to go away, even if I find another Noodles or Uncle Joe's. Even if I put up all the posters I had in my old room and all the old JAS flyers I've saved. I've made a couple new friends, from work and at FSH, but my assignment is ending soon and my RAs are probably moving away next year.
How do you socialize without an 'in' with school or work?
Also, offices have cliques at lunch time the same as middle school. (Apparently I'm part of the Popular Crowd, wtf?)
