Shiny Trees, YAY! (AKA the official winter holiday.)
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
Spike's Bitches 21 Gunn Salute
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Steph L. - Jan 03, 2005 6:46:13 am PST #870 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Lilty Cash - Jan 03, 2005 7:03:29 am PST #871 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Ohhh. I found a job. Shiny, shiny job. Portland Concert Association's Great Performances. Development Assistant. It would give me a start with some grant writing, and I'd be working in an enviroment I'd LOVE LOVE LOVE.
Wants it, me does.
Ginger - Jan 03, 2005 7:05:39 am PST #872 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Apply, Lilty, apply. Nothing ventured, nothing... You know the drill.
Jessica - Jan 03, 2005 7:05:40 am PST #873 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
All right. I'm filling in for the receptionist for the next hour, which means I need to be entertained, since I'm not doing any actual work. Dance, puppets, dance!
Lilty Cash - Jan 03, 2005 7:08:59 am PST #874 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Does Muppet dance for Jessica.
It's really a shame none of you have seen this in person. It goes best to "Rhythm of the Night".
Jessica - Jan 03, 2005 7:09:28 am PST #875 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Now that's what I'm talkin' about.
Nora Deirdre - Jan 03, 2005 7:10:55 am PST #876 of 10002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Lilty, sometimes things don't work out, there's no shame in that.
And, this place hired you with little to no management experience, so why shouldn't someone else, now that you have a little more?
I had a similar job in the summer of 2001 (May-October). It was the highest level and pay I'd had, but I was sick, sick, and miserable there. I felt like I was there for 5 years, instead of 5 months. I took a job that was a killer pay reduction, but the effect it had on my soul was so positive. I mean, that job sucked, too, for other reasons, but I didn't ever dread going into work.
Where I am now, is the job after that, and I was nervous indicating that I was only at the evil job for 5 months, but no one really asked about it.
Yo uhave to do what you need to do for your mental health. I don't think it makes you a quitter, and I don't think others (i.e., hiring managers) will either.
Lilty Cash - Jan 03, 2005 7:11:02 am PST #877 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Also, this job wants a writing sample. I don't have the foggiest idea the best kind of thing to send.
Susan W. - Jan 03, 2005 7:16:09 am PST #878 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Lilty, for a development position I'd try to send a sample either of persuasive writing, whether business writing or something you did for a class, or nonfiction storytelling--the kind of stuff you'd see in a newsletter from a nonprofit you've donated to.
Lilty Cash - Jan 03, 2005 7:16:26 am PST #879 of 10002
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Cereal:
Nora, I think the pay cut will be inevitable, especially if I'm looking at going back into non-profits. But at this point, I'd gladly take a second job again for just a couple of nights a week to offset that. Just go to Borders and spend ten hours a week shelving or at the register or something. It would seem like heaven.
Now I'm all twitchy and excited at the idea of actually doing this.