house ma~~~~

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ION, I am going to tattoo "Set nocount on" on my forehead. And then put a mirror on my desk to I can read it while working. I'd have to have the text backwards so I could read it in a mirror, like "Ambulance" on the front of an ambulance.

Have you tried a post-it note?

Thanks, y'all.

that's the deal with headhunters -- they want everyone to look as good as they can, but the best ones will try and find a good fit. They want both the co and you to work with them again.

Yeah, what beth said. I know KBD got commissions on his placements, and I would assume that's common practice.

OMG, I am watching a CBC holiday special. Scott Thompson is one of the guests and he is killing me! He's talking about being on exchnage and eating dog for Xmas. I'm sure it's probably a you have to be there moment.

Yay! Just submitted grades for the semester. I am done.

Yay!!!!

The headhunters I dealt with all treated me like I'd never been on an interview before, and they all overprepared me, but I would definitely prefer that to the alternative. I certainly didn't have any questions left over to ask them about the interview.

They did expect me to memorise every little nuance about the interview to report back to them, which I sucked at.

Just got complimented again by the boss. Apparently feedback on me from the user team I work with continues to be positive. No merit increases or bonuses for me, but it all helps with the chances of me getting picked up when my contract expires, so it's good stuff.

They are doing carols again in the nearby conference room. Seems they might be rehearsing in there until Wednesday. Oyveh.

<3 Scott Thompson. More than Eric Bana, even.

House~ma for Plei and health ~ma for Burrell.

I am a little disappointed that I did not get picked for Jury duty, but I did get to come home and take a nap and breathe menthol and such for my poor sinuses. They are o dry, and they feel like they are screaming inside my head.

The things that surprised me about jury duty was that the lawyers were sooooo young. Like in their 20's just out of law school young (because it was a really small case). And people kept laughing at things, including the defendant and the defense attorney and the DA. The defense attorny asked us what would make us think a car was stolen (she was thinking signs of forced entry) and a little old man piped up "Because it wasn't where I left it!"

I liked my recent jury duty -- my fellow jurors were so nice, and everyone took the duty so seriously! Unfortunately, we couldn't find the defendant -- a bonafide jerk -- guilty on account of the testimony never explicitly stating where he was standing (on or off the property -- it was a trespassing charge). We in fact all believed he was guilty, but it was so very Not Proven.

Too bad you can't find somebody guilty of being a jerk. It's not the last time he'll be in court, I'm sure.

Hoo boy. I just waited in line for 45 minutes at the post office. Now, the PO in the part of town where I work is very nice, so it was much better than waiting for 45 minutes in the part of town where I live. But there were only 2 clerks working, and the line was to the door. Everything is moving slowly, but the people in line are basically chill.

Until, about 25 minutes into it, a family of 6 shows up and goes to the front of the line because they have an apointment for passports, thus taking us down to only 1 clerk for mailing stuff, b/c the other clerk is doing the passports for the Swiss Family Robinson.

First -- they take appointments for passports? Huh.

Second -- I thought that that family was going to be ripped limb from limb by the very genteel Older Ladies in line with me. Under the very pointed glares and grumbling, the mom of the family got all defensive (justifiably) and said, "We HAVE an appointment!"

Which led to the genteel Older Ladies saying things like, "Well, maybe the POST OFFICE needs to not make passport appointments DURING CHRISTMAS!" and "Maybe the POST OFFICE should have anticipated this and actually SCHEDULED ENOUGH WORKERS!" and "Maybe the POST OFFICE should hire more employees -- there are plenty of people LOOKING FOR A JOB!"

(The ASSCAPS indicate where they really were raising their voices and glaring, alternately, at the clerks and then the family.)

I just kept playing Sudoku on my phone.