it sure looks like this is actually happening:

lol Tampa, I just got a job pretty much lined up over the phone, because I am frickmagical like that this time of year. I hate telephones a little bit less every time that happens, why can life not work like this all the time, etc. I have a good feeling about it too, at least, better than the place I was at last tax season; the impression I got was both busier and more competent. The lady I spoke to needs to go talk to her boss about it but I told her what I could do and she reckoned I was wanted. M just accused me of skipping around the living room. >>

More packing; now I am having to add the question of what is coming with us to Dee's place & what is going to be staying locked up up here. I opened the drawer with all the sex toys in it last night and LIEK CRIED. :(



This is neither ideal nor permanent (I'm now hoping to get up north by May) but I am glad to be leaving GA. Can I tell you a story? I will tell you a story. There's usually a copy of People Magazine in the break room at job a, I guess to keep all the RPF fans entertained so they don't eat each other or something. This month's has a small picture of the Obamas at the bottom of the front cover. Someone defaced this by writing a big X across it with a large whiteboard marker. The only black guy on payroll wrote a, really, very restrained note in response to this, noting that the dude is just doing his job and it is markedly more straining than any of our jobs, and unlike the anonymous defacer, he signed his note quite clearly.

But no, really, the entitled GA tea party freaks aren't racist at all. Really really. This is not about race. Yeah.



I'm both glad to have the job thing somewhat sorted and kind of depressed to be locked into this phase of the trainwreck, but eh; I am, as ever, doing what I can. I am aware that there is way way more left to do to get out of here than I am remotely cognisant of, but I guess if I keep shoving things into boxes it will all eventually end.

eta: they just called again and I am having a proper job interview at 10am next Weds but I am not seeing a catch here given that it's usually at least 50% noobs chasing work. It's happening, why is it happening.

linkspams:

this is my favourite DailyPuppy in a while jsyk.

10 New Years Resolutions For Designers:

1. Choose better problems to solve

Designers are, by definition, problem-solvers. And the world has never been so blessedly full of problems. Our infrastructure is rotting, the economy is crap, Wall Street is awash with criminals and millions of people can’t get basic medical care, food and water. We don’t need another app to rate your sandwich. We don’t need to know when we go to sleep and get up. We do not need digital farms. We need real ones. We need fresh water. We need solutions for the apocalypse.

^trying to decide how much of this article applies for writers.

from Paul Campos:

It’s a story that includes $165,000 in debt, and constant daily harassment from creditors, including threats to the caller’s father (who co-signed one loan) to garnish his social security payments, and working stocking shelves in the middle of the night at a supermarket for nine dollars an hour, and then stringing together a Dickensian existence by grading papers written by convicts for $17 an hour, and working another 20 hours a week at Starbucks for the health benefits, all the while hoping to somehow get to a point where the caller will be able to one day marry her fiancé, also a college graduate, who is also doing low-paid temp work with zero benefits or job security in these United States.

from Brad Hicks:

I am, for the second time in two years, convinced that I live in a country full of superstitious, primitive, blood-thirsty savages.

Ohh and, if you don't already hate Paypal forever? I can fix that for you.