Bit of Ivory

Today at work, one of my coworkers (whom I really like) came to my desk to meter some mail. As she did so, she whistled 11 notes of a tune. A tune I immediately recognized.
“Kathy,” I said, “why in the world are you whistling ‘Theme From Flood’?”
She was very impressed. Especially as the 11 notes [...]

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I’ve now officially been working at my job for a week and one day. I like it. There are still some things I’m unsure about, but most of it is starting to become familiar. At the moment I’m concentrating on the front desk, although there is a strong possibility that I’ll move to the actual [...]

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So Wednesday was my birthday. It was good. There was lunch at Tucano’s (a Brazilian steakhouse) and yarn shopping and other shopping and See’s chocolate and Backer’s Bakery cake and Litza’s pizza. I bought enough yarn to make a sweater. I finished knitting a Dalek. I watched Doctor Who.
And my sister got a phone call [...]

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Long time, no update. I’m so bad. Really must get back into the groove of doing this. Because it’s not like things haven’t been happening.
We had a fabulous time in Disneyland. Seriously, it was one of the best trips ever. The only damper on the thing was that I got tendonitis in both legs (it’s [...]

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You know why? ‘Cause I just spent the last 12 hours (give or take a few breaks here and there) walking around Disneyland. Yup! Lisa and Sarah and I have escaped to Anaheim, and boy are we happy about it. We’re also completely exhausted. My feet hurt, my back hurts, the back of my [...]

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Number of resumes submitted: 12
Number of responses recieved: 2
Number of interviews had: 1
*sigh*
One of the responses called for an interview, but then called again the next day and cancelled it. The other one I actually had an interview at a dentist’s office, and I think it went pretty well, but I haven’t been called back [...]

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I woke up far too early (8:30) despite my best intentions of being lazy today. It seems I am now incapable of sleeping in. Oh, well. More time to get stuff done.
I applied for unemployment
I updated my resume
I found a few more connections on LinkedIn (thanks for the tip, B.K.) and even sent a message [...]

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Today at work has been– interesting. We’ve all moved past the shock of coming in and hearing “We’re closing. As of now. As soon as we can get the patients moved out. Friday, hopefully. Monday at the latest.” We’ve done the depression and the anger and the sadness, and now we’re all just kind of– [...]

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My employer is closing. I’m losing my job. Maybe by the end of the week, definitely by the end of next.
This royally sucks.

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I’m so sorry for all of you who don’t live where I do. If I had a TARDIS or a transporter or if we could actually Apparate, I’d make sure you all got to enjoy this day. Seriously, guys, it’s gorgeous out there. And it may be gorgeous where you are, too, but you don’t [...]

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