smonster, Lindsay L., who used to work for the Institute for the Environment? I can't remember if you two knew each other. I think you did. She works for Marine Sciences now. Anyway, she's in two or three dance troupes, I can't keep track. An Italian folk dancing one, and this one that's performing tonight...some experimental collective. Idk. I got invited on Facebook, like so many things. Can you tell I'm probably not going to go? There's a bottle of wine here with my name on it. But she's resurrecting my Green Labs committee for me, so.
Mmm. Wine.
keep consulting. joy is the best pay.
I may embroider this onto a pillow!!! If I only knew how to embroider.
Once you lay out the pleasures of your current life vs. the potential commute it really sounds like no contest, javachik. Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Scrappy, I'm so glad your mom is starting to feel better.
Is there any way he could be talked into actually hiring you as a consultant so you can still have the pleasure of at least doing some work with him without tying yourself to an endless commute?
Bingo. This is what I am hoping may happen. I'd actually be reporting to someone who reports to him, and I haven't met her yet. So we shall see. Thanks for listening, peoples! Writing it out actually makes it more black and white for me. I tried writing a pros and cons list and found myself scrawling "commute" under "con" like five times and giving up.
Life is too short to be miserable at work. OTOH, a ton of folks I work with in DC and here work 6-3 or whatever. Which, if one can drag oneself out of bed at that hour, does manage to avoid a lot of the traffic.
But I couldn't do it, myself. So I work nearby and take the bus, thus putting the time to good use listening to podcasts and audiobooks.
Do they have age categories, Consuela?
Nope, just Advanced/Intermediate/Beginner. And my climbing partner just bailed on me, so I guess I'm not going. Might see if I can convince my sister to watch more Shakespeare tonight...
joy is the best pay.
I'll just say, that's only true if there is also money. Which, obviously, there is for javachik as a consultant.
I just found myself quoting Don Draper's, "That's what the MONEY is for!" again the other day.
I think my weekend plans are to sleep a lot and try not to login to work more than once. Maybe I'll make some hummus.
I need to do a bunch of cooking, somehow, and probably throw out the lettuce I never ate last week.
