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Yay for today being Katharine Hepburn day on TMC!

Yay for sj getting her car back!

Yay for me finishing two more CD covers and getting the fetal kick count out of the way early (10 brisk kicks in 90 seconds) and now being fully prepared to spend the rest of the day swooning on the couch drowning in Ms. Hepburn's crisp snarky line delivery and amazing cheekbones.

Also, yay for bathing suits and sarongs and the existence of saucy Buffistas to wear them.

Okay, now I'm all worn out. Off to the couch with me.

We are always instructed to send Kleenex, hand sanitizer, copy paper, etc. to school. Some teachers post a wish list. Markers are a popular item.

The boys read plenty this summer, but I was less than successful getting them to write. School starts Wednesday. Yay!

spend the rest of the day swooning on the couch drowning in Ms. Hepburn's crisp snarky line delivery and amazing cheekbones.

If I lived in SF, I would totally fake sick and come over right now. My Tivo is filling up with our girl Kate all day. I'm particularly looking forward to her autobiographical film and Woman of the Year.

A big Woo Hoo for the car return! TCG should feel comfortable asking for the weekend to think things over. All aspects of the employment remain negotiable. When I have made an offer to potential employees in the past about half the time they have asked for time to mull it over. I'd say about half have discussed the terms further too. If the offer sounds right by all means snap it up. If he doesn't need to think it over and the salary and perks are right then go for it.

I watched "Bringing Up Baby" yesterday. I was gonna follow it up with "The Philadelphia Story", but I fell asleep.

I figure that if only 25% of the students actually bring in Kleenex or sanitizer, I'll be set.

As for the other supplies...well, I'm gonna be a hard-ass on that one. Don't tell me you can afford an iPod or a grill or a quince for you kid, but you can't buy him/her $10 worth of school supplies.

Oh, and a dictionary. Dictionaries are supercheap at garage sales, UBS's and Half-Price Books.

Dear Parents,

Please send Kleenex, as your girls can't seem to stop blowing their noses. I don't *think* it's due to a cocaine habit, but I can't be sure. You might want to search their rooms to be on the safe side.

Lovens,

Erin

Hee! Coke is the 2nd fave drug o' choice at my school, coming in WAAAYYY after weed.

OK. Meeting went very well. BUT. BUT. Job Guy needs to verify my numbers with his other contractor. He's not comfortable with offering me a paid position just yet.

Although I'm fairly confident of his intent to hire me, he only said that he's got to be 100% sure I can produce what he need. He said (and I basically agreed) that I'm at a 7 on a scale of 10 (where I need to be producing). Although I got to 7 with NO help, no training and after a 5 year hiatus. So I'm emailing my spreadsheets to him, he'll verify my numbers with his other guy and we've got a meeting scheduled for next Tuesday (his other actuarial contractor, his in house guy and me).

Of course, I asked him about where this stands as far as my contract goes--he sort of put me off. DH thinks I'm being taken advantage of. Although JG specifically said (again) that I will get paid for all of my work up to now and including next week--he didn't say when he'd pay me. I think he doesn't want to cut me a check until he knows he's not going to hire me as an employee.

This is disappointing and I didn't feel confident enough to demand payment at the meeting this morning--because of the meeting next week which should solidfy my position. Maybe if his guy verifies my numbers, I can flat out ask for a specific date?

At this point, if I'm going to continue doing the work on, I HAVE to have my own laptop with Excel and Access (since I've been bogarting DH's work laptop). I think I could bill him for at least half the cost of a laptop at this point with the rates I quoted him when we started.

Should I have been more insistent on payment? Or should I just go along until I have hard evidence that my numbers match what his other guy does. (The reason he wants ME to start doing this is that his other guy is an independent contractor so he's not 100% sure of his loyalty to the company and his in house guy CAN'T devote enough time to doing the amount of work he wants be to eventually be able to do.)

Am I crazy and getting screwed over?

Gronklies. I've got nothing to add, except that I got to hang with the loverly JZ & Hec last night and eat Chinese food and watch most of S2 of Slings & Arrows. Love.