Oooh, Wii therapy sounds even better than chocolate therapy right now.

Maybe I'll teach Dylan to play Boomblox tonight.

Continued department~ma, Jessica!

::kicks Jilli's former employers in the nads::

I think I'll go try making the Lemon Thyme Cornmeal Quick Bread recipe I got from Cooking Light. That should put me in a better mood.

A tech editing contract gig ... that pays about 2/3 of what I made ... as a contractor ON THE TEAM THAT I WAS LAID OFF FROM.

Considering that benefits amount to another 1/3 for full-time employees, it's really paying about half. Bastards.

What students will do for a thesis supervisor

“There are some people you just don’t want. If everybody in the school were a good supervisor, we wouldn’t have to do this. You’ve no idea how distressing it was to see people punching each other in the queue,” said the student.

My mind, it boggles.

Jessica, tons of job-keeping~ma.

Health~ma for Owen.

{{{{{Bitches}}}}} Just because it seems to be one of those days.

A tech editing contract gig ... that pays about 2/3 of what I made ... as a contractor ON THE TEAM THAT I WAS LAID OFF FROM.

That's just insulting. What a bunch of low-balling asshats.

Plus, if it's contracting, they're not paying bennies either or severance when the term is up.

Yep. I told my recruiter that it wasn't enough money for to me to consider applying for it. Aaaaand I just found out that another job I applied for (with a friend's recommendation) has already been filled. Feh. Today is fired.

I'm sorry, Jilli. I hope tomorrow brings something better.

Hope that now they recognize they really do need you they can be made to pony up and get you back, Jilli. (Or, y'know, that you see so much success with the book that you get a three book deal that parlays itself into a daytime talkshow or summat so you can tell them to take a long walk off a short pier. Whichever).

For those of you playing along at home - I picked a few key points from y'all's helpful responses (plus just felt more justified, y'know?) and sent this reply:

I get that "Act 2" of the song is the date rapist getting it too, but this is my point - that it's never funny (or acceptable). Not even when the guy "deserves" it. The song is not anti-rape. It implies date rape is ameliorated by prison rape. That's pro-rape, just so long as it's The Right Kind of Rape.

As quickly as I dive for the radio button when I hear the opening notes of this song (when it's not snuck in by my alarm clock at o'dark thirty in the morning), I imagine that someone who's actually had this crime perpetrated on them is even less likely to listen to the whole song. And even if they do let the song play out, I can't really imagine them listening to the "punch line" of the song and saying, "Oh, well that's okay then." A trigger is a trigger, and rape leaves lifelong scars on its victims. Making light of the issue shows a lack of sensitivity I find troubling.

And if the message was getting through, I don't think that we would have the problems we currently do with our prisons all being filled well past their capacities.

I recognize that I am just one listener, but I understand that one person who takes the time to write in must be assumed to be representative of several more who are either "suffering in silence" or just changing the station.

Nevertheless, I appreciate you taking the time to dialogue about this rather than just dismissing it, and I hope that you will seriously consider my request. I would be sorry to leave 94.9.

Thank You, We shall see what results.