All my experience is as an admin to Extremely Difficult People.

Allyson you have tremendous organizational skills.

I think the WGA should hire you to straighten their shit out.

Ima go to bed and think on it.

oooh. Forget to post that I babysat my niece today, who's a bit congested and therefore inconsolable. And I kept thinking, "sister, you should meet Gracie, she's got tubes and stuff and is WAY MORE CHEERY, SO BUCK UP, BUCKAROO."

Seriously, having spent so much time with Grace and Noah has totally jaded me. I can just scoop her up in one hand and bouncywalk her for hours on end. I'm all, "look, no wires! no scary alarms! PIECE OF CAKE!"

And yet, inconsolable. Good thing she's cute, I tells ya. Or out on the sidewalk for the coyotes for her.

Allyson, Hec is on to something. You'd be an awesome events planner, and I don't mean that in an empty-headed events-planner way. You are adept at dealing with People, and that's half of a good organizer. You are great networker, and that's a huge part too. And look at all of the things you've already feted---all of those huge fan-related things are cv-worthy. And you'd (like MM) have even more awesome stories to write about.

Still here. Why my friend wants to be a probation officer, I'll never understand but I wrote a nice recommendation & referral.

BWAH!! dcp, that is GREAT! I had no idea tortoises could be that fast. That guy is zippy.

Oh Noes! I started looking at lizards and guess what, my mistake, a skink is not a lizard. These are what was living with me: [link]

Allyson, this community college has a big, well funded career counseling dept. Maybe one down there does, too. [link] Click on the classes (the URL isn't changing), the Counseling 130 class had, like, a zillion dollars worth of free testing for whatever the cost of one class was, $30 or something. the full Meyers Brigg, the Strong Campbell Interest Inventory, and bunch of other things.

I spent a fair chunk of change on a career counselor type person, and I think it was worth it, even though I haven't actually done anything yet. She definitely helped with the thinking about what different things I could do with my existing skills part. (Main tool: going through job descriptions for other jobs and seeing how what I've done in the past actually fits into what they're looking for. It's the kind of thing you could do on your own, but it definitely helped me to have someone kicking me in the ass for downplaying my skills.....) Too bad she's either in NY or in Florida, because I don't know how to rec anyone in LA.

In other news, I am inconsolable! I went to bed at like 9:30, but had a terrible time finding a position I could both sleep and breathe in. Then my stupid cat woke me up at 6 again. I wonder if he always tries to wake me up then, but usually I'm actually asleep, because usually I can breathe. Wah wah wah. I just hope the pharmacist is there at the drugstore to give me the Good Stuff, because whatever I have now is definitely not cutting it.

I fear the sick is coming back. I have a cough and am congested again.

The main thing about signing up with a career counselor is to get some personal recommendations and look for certification. (It's altogether too easy to throw together a web site and set yourself up as somebody who knows something about something.)

I really do think you'd benefit from it, Allyson. You so clearly have skills that are going under-used, and aside from being a waste, it's clearly frustrating you to do the work you're doing now!

thanks for all the congrats!! i'm not sure it's actually sunk in that i'm a homeowner until i'm actually all moved in(which will likely be the first couple of days in february).

yay tiggy! can I have your new tub?

you'll have to fight my mom for it, but yeah. i don't even want the thing. i never take baths. when i get the money, it's going to be the first thing to go because i want a shower in that bathroom.

ION, GRONK! i do not want to be up...