Holy Crap!

So - not in any hurry to take a job in Georgia. ijs.

Announcement:

Hil = BEST EVAH

I've had an email exchange with my sister. If he's there when she gets home she's coming here instead.

Good luck , Laga.

BTW, you are hungry Susan, even if you can't eat - that is where some of this is coming from . I'd wait another day if you can.

As someone that does love my job, yes it is better. however, while I don't hate going to work, most days, I'd rather not.

And do you know what most people do when you tell them you work at a library - they walk away. The rest of them think you get to read all day.

I used to work at a library! I loved it, but it didn't pay well. It was a student job at the jr college. I did book repairs. Active culture glue is nifty.

I also loved being a carriage driver but that pay was even worse.

Now I work in a movie theatre and it can be 55%-75% sucky but I have excellent benefits.

library's don't pay well. that is the bad part. the bureaucracy is the other part that is bad. and the drunk/crazy/angry/entitled guy, that the other bad part.

So I played a mild prank at the library today. Short blog post about it

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I played a mild prank at the library today.

that's great! I can never think of a clever prank that's not mean.

but...none of the patrons seemed to notice...

Susan, I'll just note that you have really disliked almost all of your dayjobs. You like a lot of autonomy and that's hard to come by with a middle level job. It's the sort of thing that tends to happen by accident on an org-chart rather than by design. You have strong issues with authority and those issues ping on you in a variety of ways. I think the satisfactory dayjob is going to be elusive for you.

Well...agreed, but in saying that do you have any ideas for what I can do about it, other than accepting unhappiness and/or trying to catch lightning in a bottle in the form of a bestseller?

Susan, let me give you the other side of that. I think - I suspect - that if you could let go of some of the worry about your day job defining you, then you might be able to find a little more contentment in it. In a way, I think you care too much about your day job for a midlevel position to be satisfying. You don't want a job that requires you to really put your heart into it - you want and need something that leaves you able to put your heart into your writing and family. Not caring is tough. But in some way you need to put your job into a 'here for eight hours, do my job, don't care' category if you're going to live with it.

t baseball

Now that King Felix is presumably done for the night, I can safely say he totally ought to be our #1 starter. Not feeling the Bedard love here.

However, we have no offense. It's Ichiro, Beltre, and seven guys who can't hit.

t /baseball

I emailed work to say that if I'm in tomorrow, it'll be a very brief appearance.