Just skipping to the end to say that Jilli needs this:

Ooh, that is cute! But I now have no spending money, as I purchased a new purse (and other stuff) yesterday at the gothy craft fair: [link]

(I added the pink bow and the cameo ring.)

Argh. I ordered some cute slippers from myself and my mom from Land's End [link] and they are too small. I ordered the M, which should be 7.5 - 8.5. I'm normally an 8. I can't tell if it's pregnancy related or not and now I'm not sure if they'll fit my mom or not (she's also an 8). Anyone have any experience with their slipper/shoe fit?

GC, I've ordered shoes from Lands' End and they run true to size for me. In fact, I'm wearing a pair right now. I wear an 8W and these fit great.

Thanks, smonster!

We do get bonuses, too. Nothing much - about $100 cash the Friday before the holiday break, and people bitch about that. People, in general, will just bitch about anything. I hate people.

Dude. I've always worked for for-profit, and never gotten a holiday bonus! They need to STFU! (I mean, we usually have planned in that we're supposed to get a "bonus" at a different time of year, along with raises, but that doesn't necessarily happen, etc etc)

I am trying to fill out my self evaluation, and am not sure I'm doing it right. Also, I think it's still filled with my plans from LAST year, when I was working on a whole different project. Oops. Also, it's very easy for me to come up with soem areas where I need improvement, but hard for me to come up with "strengths".

Thanks, Chi. Maybe I'll go ahead with hers and order a new bigger pair for me. If hers are too small, she can try mine and I'll replace hers.

Real-estate~ma for Plei, and large cluesticks for Seska and Aims to whack people with.

Today's the first day of my "vacation", which is supposed to last through the rest of the year and I'm only taking it to use up vacation days which I would otherwise lose, which I haven't taken before now because apparently no one else can do my job for even a couple days, much less three weeks (and god I need a vacation, I work 12 hour days regularly and still can't catch up because my boss keeps giving me more work that's outside my own responsibilities, and if I don't do it I'm not a "team player", and the next person who insinuates that I'm not really working because I'm at home gets a curse of boils on their ass). At 6am today I was still working to finalize some stuff. I sent my boss an email, X is done except for Y which Coworker will do, and don't worry about Z, it can wait. At 11:30am Wacky Boss calls me, leaves a long rambling phone message and I pick up in the middle of it so she repeats it all. She and another manager (WTF? since when does he even care about my stuff? she's lying) are "concerned" about X, Y, and Z and she wants me to take care of it all, myself, preferably today. So here I am working on the first day of my "vacation", and I know I'll be working at least part of the day for the next week. This? Sucks.

This is the same kind of passive-aggressive crap she pulled to "punish" me when I stopped working in the office and went full-time telecommuting. She wanted me there to hover over and snipe at in person. But it's worth it to never have to go into that toxic office environment again. I like my job, but the department is run by crazy people.

Okay, venting done. Back to frickin' work.

That sucks, Zenkitty. I hate people who can't respect VACATION TIME!

Watching A Baby Story, getting nervous about the C-section. I've been kind of putting it out of my head, but it's next week. My fibroid surgery was basically a C-s, but the part that's tripping me out is being awake during it. t shudder

~ma to those who needs it.

Life is interesting.

My baby sister was about to finish her 26 months service in Gaza this Thursday. I didn't want to say anything until that day, and I was right.

Today she got a very interesting proposal that can make her career. She's very interested in intelligence. As a bonus, that's out of Gaza (hello, sleep. My mom missed you). However, it mean 12 more months in IDF.

I'm kind in a mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, she'll of course do wonders there and hopefully will get more experience, etc.. On the other hand? I was really, really, really ready to see her out of this organization. While I know it can offer her a hell lot, I'd love to meet that woman in civil life. Hopefully as a lawyer. I just need a hell lot more faith in IDF to really get excited for this possibly next move (her interview will be in the next 48 hours), a faith which I lack.

And to think I already planning the big announcement on Beep Me, and thanking y'all for all of the support (really. I would have gone crazy without you people) during these 26 months of worries, pride, love&hate and anxiety.

Again, life is interesting.

ION. I've decided to take the chance and starting to snoop around in my history department, to see if instead the requirement for 2 final papers on 2 periods I can have them both on the same period (modern period). I already have the thing I want to research, and that could give me more time and means to investigate further and actually trying to do something which is more than just graduating with a degree in history from HUJI. Most of the key players on this like me and could possibly be on my side, but I still need luck, and balls to ask what can make my time in the academia more significant, on a period I actually have a lot to say about.

the part that's tripping me out is being awake during it.

DW will be there with you, talking to you the whole time. My DH is the only person I remember in the room, until the doctor said, "It's a girl," and then there were only 3 of us there, as far as I was concerned.

{{GC}}