Dude. Now *I* want to work at Sparky's U. Except in how they hate me and my kind, and I don't think I could stand all the conservatism and the hating on me and on the various positions I feel strongly about. But, y'know....VACATION. And SICK TIME. And HOLIDAYS!

am jealous. I think I had similar when at the uni, but then I also had a boss from hell, so it wasn't worth it long term.

Now I have 11 vacation, 3 personal, 9 sick (but if you take them all, you will be talked to), and the federal reserve holidays. Where ever I get a job in TX will probably be worse unless I can get on with a school district (and yes, I am actually considering horribly low pay of being a school support staff in order to get school hours and the same vacations as mac).

Yay for Matt's dad!

Are they just pressing or are they also blocking? If they are just pressing, you can do that at home by laying the cross stich, front side down, on a towel and ironing. This doesn't squish your stitches and can save you money. I haven't had good luck trying to block at home though.

Most of those pieces have been folded up in the bottom of my cross-stitch bin for years, so the wrinkles were ridiculous and not something I wanted to deal with. My next project, which is still on the stretcher bars and I swear to God I'll finish it sometime before the end of the year, I promise!, won't be so bad and I should be able to handle pressing it myself.

The cleaners used to offer blocking services, but haven't done so in years. I'll have Michaels take care of doing that for me when I take them in to get framed (I'll handle framing the Xmas piece myself since I'm not going to splurge on framing for something that'll be on my wall for only a month every year).

Except in how they hate me and my kind, and I don't think I could stand all the conservatism and the hating on me and on the various positions I feel strongly about. But, y'know....VACATION. And SICK TIME. And HOLIDAYS!

And I'm even worse because I bred! And they don't seem to be down with working moms, let alone working moms of my kind.

It was moot because a) I don`t yet have a laundry basket anymore and b) I broke it. Hmph. The retracting bit got looped around the retracting bit and it`s stuck. I am miffed.

My last uni, the liberal one, was similar. My dept here is full of liberals, which makes it tolerable. And the talking I do behind the conservative backs. But I keep my eyes open for another position!

Yay Matt!

YAY for the good news, Matt!

Timelies all!

Yay Matt!

Good news, Matt!

I got my foreign currency, but was unable to see John Waters speak (room was full), for those of you following along with my after-work plans that I didn't post about beforehand.

That is excellent to hear, Matt.

It's okay, Jesse. I was reading your mind anyway.