Okay, this job application wants me to upload a copy of my diploma.

Dude, I didn't even have to do that for my job. Transcript, sure, but not actual diploma. Which I think is hanging on a wall back in Michigan.

That's insane. And unless you're applying within academia, even the transcript is pretty over the top, especially if you've been out of school for a few years.

Car meets church.

OMG! Talk about your flying cars. And here I was thinking it was going to be just a car driving into the side of a church at street level.

Which is what happened at St. Mary Nativity church in Joliet back when I was in high school, but that church was only the width of the sidewalk away from the street, so having a car drive into it wasn't that unusual. We did make jokes about it since St. Mary's was notorious for having short masses (20-25 minutes, usually) which were nicknamed "drive-in masses"--the driver apparently took the nickname seriously!

Kathy, I added an extra comment to clarify the rather aerial nature of the collision.

Or maybe to make you look craxy, YMMV.

LEGO Inaugural scene. Updated for the First Family fashions. [link]

Why, how adorable of you to make me look craxy!

It is a pretty cool picture--I wonder just how drunk the driver was to get the car that airborne.

Updated for the First Family fashions.

They've even got Aretha in there with her hat!

I think it was the combination of keeping me in the dark and the gratuitous comment about my entire salary depending on the magazine that did it (at least as far as I'm concerned).

It's a shame that corporate culture frowns on doing the dance of neener, neener down the halls.

I looked at some jobs that were equivalent to mine in SF a few years ago. The pay was 20% higher at most, while housing costs would have been a minimum of triple Atlanta's. Several companies have moved corporate headquarters from California or the NYC area to Atlanta because they had trouble finding people willing to be promoted to the corporate headquarters because of the cost of housing. My old employer has had that problem on a statewide basis. The pay scale was the same throughout the state, but for the cost of my small elderly ranch in Atlanta, people in south Georgia could have a 10-acre farm and stable, plus a five-minute commute.

Liese, I agree with JZ about your pseudonym. It must be Krprinkle. Which is still hysterical to me years later, much like the solved (or IS it?) toy boat fetish mystery.

Steph- I am not doing as well as you, but the combination of not having a car, getting a promotion, and msbelle helping me make a budget has put me in a much better financial situation that I was in the past. It isn't great, but I am not looking at piles of debt and no savings and robbing Peter to pay Paul anymore.

Of course, debt is so relative, because I was just crushed by my 10,000 credit card debt that built after years of working in theatre and not making any money and living on $9,000 pay a year. My young student told me about her high school friend whose parent's got her a credit card and she spent $10,000 in 9 months! They are about to kill her, but I am not sure how they a) gave a credit card with that kind of limit to a teenager and b) didn't discover it sooner. Apparently this 17 year old also has two cars of her own, that she doesn not share with her parents, a Hummer and some other luxury brand. This is so alien to me-- just a kind of wealth I cannot imagine and I am sure there are people far wealthier AND I am sure if I made that much money, I would probably spend it although I would like to think I would spend it rescuing old houses or something else I feel passionately about!

I would probably spend it although I would like to think I would spend it rescuing old houses or something else I feel passionately about!

Something tells me that there are people that feel passionately about Hummers.