Doing better than last night, thanks. Long break from copyediting (I maintain that “copyediting” should be one word, so to heck with these spellcheckers), long stretch of quality time and conversation with G whilst doing laundry, large bowl of ice cream; all can work wonders. In the meantime I’m home alone with the kids today, [...]
I did a bad thing. I mean besides accidentally allowing my son to yank at my computer so it won’t work unless I tape the power cord to the screen in a particularly artful manner, and even then it only works some of the time. That was at least an accident; this was on purpose. [...]
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Things that make you smile
Your child (YS), being a raving genius and all, is in this enrichment program at school. She brought home a special assignment that required making up a creature, and drawing a picture of it, and then describing it using “nonsense words” and “context.” So YS thought of a creature, named [...]
Really it’s the 5th of November that’s the subject of that little British rhyme, but today is the 2nd of November, not the 5th. Can’t have everything.
So remember how RS had lice (past tense! she does not have it anymore!), so we were taking her to get her head shaved hair cut on Friday, along [...]
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[This part of this post was written soon after Simchat Torah ended.]
Why does my son have a fanatical opposition to eating the last few bites of food on his tray? This morning he asked for more grapes (”Gips!”) when there were still at least three distinctly visible grape fragments sitting right in front of him. [...]
First of all, SCORE!! Check out this comment to my previous post. Woohoo!! Free stuff!! I am totally getting free stuff from the Pirate’s Booty people!! Though apparently, somebody told them about my post, instead of them finding it themselves via whatever secret method brought them to this one, so I still haven’t confirmed my [...]
Know what I keep discovering during this job search, I mean aside from the fact that nobody is hiring? Here’s what I keep discovering.
It’s a darn shame I don’t want to do development (also that I would stink at it), because wow, there are a lot of jobs available in development.
Places who want someone to [...]
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We’re home and my head is the biggest blur that ever was. No, really. I can’t think.
Here are a few updates:
The ants are everywhere again, including in G’s keyboard. I’ve taken to killing them with my fingers while I type. I don’t know WHY the ants are everywhere, since my kitchen, and indeed my entire [...]
Why do I keep applying for jobs I don’t want? I already had a job I didn’t want. A really, really good one. But I quit, because – listen carefully – I didn’t want it. In fact I hated it, which is also why I sort of didn’t do it, at least not on the [...]
[Ed note: I started writing this much, much earlier today.]
Got me another teeth-clenching headache. Stress, you say? What is this stress of which you speak?
The cool part is that this appears to be equal opportunity stress. Clearly it isn’t taking its cues from most of the job postings I see, which reek of discriminatory hiring [...]
