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Work sucks. Standard “Well, we don’t have anything for you to do, so keep yourself busy.� Um. What is it about me? Seem to remember that happening at my last job… and the job before that… My major reporting application is down for the day, and the stuff I have to pull directly from the [...]

Hope everyone had a great Irish-American National Holiday. Er, St. Patrick’s Day. Ours was nearly perfect, had a dear friend show up from Vegas to hang with us over the weekend, ate corned beef and cabbage and called liquor stores all over town in a fruitless search for Beemish Stout (Makes Guiness taste like the [...]

Here I am, supposedly learning how to use MS Outlook for e-mail. Never mind that this is the only place I’ve worked that didn’t use Outlook! But, hey, I’m not at my desk & it’s remote so the prof will never know that I’m only barely paying attention. On the other hand, there’s something wrong [...]

So. Miss C. has been asking me for ages to let her dye her hair. First, she wanted to go ultra blonde (her hair is honey-brown/blonde). Now, she’s decided she wants to be a Goth (and listen to hip-hop. We’ve explained that the two are mutually exclusive). So of course, the hair must be black. [...]

Again, I drop out of sight for no apparent reason. Well, February was a rough month. Two weeks conducting training, then a week miserably ill. The regular docs have no idea what’s wrong (my favorite was the guy who looked at me, while I was covered with a rash & so swollen that I couldn’t [...]