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I love decisive people.

I especially love when decisive people are in charge of hiring. When that happens, they have you in for two interviews within days, and make you an offer a half hour after the second.

March is not the business.

So, it’s 4 in the morning and I’m sitting here in a pair of pink cotton gauchos and a blue tee with a picture of bikini-clad bunnies that reads “Hunk Patrol: Bring on the Guys” (which I am almost certain was aquired by a relative from a thrift store when I was in junior high), […]

Hot: Pub I wrote for last year which hadn’t been responding to my emails called me today to discuss future opportunities!
Not: The editor proceeded to compliment me on an article someone else wrote. I’m not even sure she meant to call me. I envision a scenario in which she had two columns on a note […]

my recent temp job is about to be “O-V-O-VER!”
Hush. It didn’t make a lick of sense when she said it, either.
Late-ish nights, long hours, long commute, all about to end, for now, anyway.
I’m a little sad. I actually really liked the people I was working for/with. It paid half what my old job did, but […]

Only Temporary.

Today, I worked a double shift.
14 hours.
Whew.
I was so busy…I read a novel.
An entire novel.
Before the first shift was up.
Yep. Only 7 more days of this job. Not so bad, really. It’s kind of awesome, actually. I did buy all those books figuring this would happen, after all. I’ve got three more to get through. […]