but when you show up to your interview with a folder with your resume in colour and colour copies of your certifications, it's not our company you really wanted to work for.

Doesn't everyone do that?

I kid, I kid...

Obsv she wasn't a right fit for your company, but there CAN be people who get all up and anal for interviews, and then work out ok with people in a chaotic field.

OK -- mememe vent: This is the THIRD morning in a row I have woken up in a bad mood because D's ex has been in my dreams, and I am seriously irritated with my psyche. I mean, you all know how hard it is for me to sleep, and then to have horrid dreams with her in my head being wretched for 3 nights in A ROW is just too much.

I am sublimating something fierce, because in every single dream I end up slapping or hitting her. Neither D or I have heard a word from her since I called and left her a VM about the whole Technorati article incident, although we have talked to M (not about that, of course.)

I work so hard to get a normal sleeping schedule, or at least as normal as can be for me, and to have her in my fucking head for 3 nights running is seriously making me cranky. I don't get it: I vent about her (here, and to other discreet friends) and I try to approach it in a healthy way. Maybe because I'm a natural problem-fixer and person who likes to deal up-front with shit, and not being able to assert myself and having to tip-toe around my drama llama is making me crazy, because it goes so against my nature and yet I'm doing it for M's sake?

I dunno.

But I AM signing up for that intro krav class this Saturday right this second, and I am hoping they have some heavy bag work, because I think I need to try to kick the shit out of something. And it's best it's inanimate, and the last time I kicked a wall out of frustration, I pulled a Xander and kicked a hole through the drywall of an old apartment and lost my security deposit.

GRRRRR ARGH STAB STAB STAB

Oatmeal:

The other agent is trying to use my disability as a reason for us to come up on the price of the house, because it happens to be a ranch.

Oh, sj, I am in a BAD MOOD already. Can I punch agent? PLEASEPLEASEplease? It would be so lovely....

Oh, sj, I am in a BAD MOOD already. Can I punch agent? PLEASEPLEASEplease? It would be so lovely....

Well, I can't do it, and somebody really should...

If I were the seller I'd fire that agent and find a new one. really.

Erin, sorry about your dreams. Hopefully krav will help.

my mother hates real-estate agents with a fiery passion from working in a title company. Between that, and him being a bigot, it could be like that part in Romancing the stone when they ask if Joan's sister found her husband and they say "Just the one...part."

there CAN be people who get all up and anal for interviews, and then work out ok with people in a chaotic field.

And there can be people who interview badly who're a good fit, and vice versa. But the point of the interview is to assess the information presented, and gauge appropriately from there on in. I've bitched about that company before. Chaotic is a mild, polite, non-libelous term for what was going on there.

Well, I can't do it, and somebody really should...

Excellent! Hit me up with the pertinent info; my email addy is...

Huh. I guess I should set up a blind drop for covert random punching activities, no? Dammit. Lemme get back to you, sj.

It's about 65 degrees here in FEBRUARY. Maybe I'll go do some vicious gardening instead? Surely I have some horrible weeds with clingy roots I can attack?

Rrr. I have to get work done instead. Perhaps I can proofread...with extreme prejudice.

Coming soon to a theatre near you:

Scene: Normal suburban neighborhood. Quiet woman in office, shuffling papers, typing on laptop.

Voiceover:

"Most days are ordinary. I do my work; I tap on the keyboard, I return calls, I file..."

"But..."

(cut to giant red pen slashing across screen, dripping red ink -- or blood?! -- "V for Vendetta" style)

"...Every one in a while, I have to let the demons come out to play."

EDITED ACTION SCENES OF WOMAN DOING VARIOUS LETHAL BAD-ASS MOVES WITH A RED PEN AS WEAPON

"...People think the life of an editor is boring. It's best. For their peace of mind."

MOVIE ANNOUNCER VOICE OF DRAAAAMA:

"The Red Pen of Death. Coming to theatres Summer 2013."

fade-out to "Do you know where your manuscript is...?"

Do you think I have a sleeper hit on my hands? I mean, come on, right?!

...What?

Perhaps I can proofread...with extreme prejudice.

You should hear my department, and how often we swear at authors.

It's the best part of my day.

My cats get to hear my best cussing. It's tragic, really. Such a waste...

Someone needs to make the trailer for The Red Pen of Death!