Cash, I can't copy and paste but I was seriously thinking about coming to visit but the car I'm driving is not very safe or reliable and I just shortened my trip by a week. Still, it would have been lots of fun.
'Heart Of Gold'
Spike's Bitches 40: Buckle Up, Kids! Daddy's Puttin' the Hammer Down.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I posted it in Natter, so I should post it here: Muppets blooper reel. Featuring Beaker!
FWIW, I have some ideas of what might give me some more autonomy, even if not all that I might want: finding a really small organization instead of working for a Giant State Bureaucracy, and/or find a way to move back into event planning, which could be tricky schedule-wise with a child but possibly doable as long as DH's schedule stays fairly predictable.
And even if you do have a career about which people have a clear-cut impression, ie. being a nurse, their impression is so unbelievably misguided and wrong that to explain the mistakes would take you days.
Kristin kinda already said it, but yeah, there are some jobs where the stereotypes tend to overshadow the job, and nursing is one of them.
So is writing, for what that's worth. No, I'm not a millionaire. No, I'm not going on Oprah. No, I can't tell you where I get my ideas, except it's not from the Magical Idea Well.
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
Crap. They're not?
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
Crap. Then what are those tiny creatures who tell me they're magical writing fairies?
I'm still bummed that the magical writing fairies aren't real.
But I've been leaving scones and tea out for them! You mean I have to write my manuscript by myself?
Oh, *I* have magical writing fairies. But, you know, they don't live in a well.
Seriously.