Yay Holly and the fun vintage! Hope your store is ch-ching-ing like crazy!

I am so fed up with the people at my job. Do not like waking up to be blindsided by demands that I fly cross country three times in a week, and be prepared to do things properly for an observer twice during that time. Um, no. I wouldn't have time to print the presentations, much less LEARN them.

Also, Dear Person I Am Taking Over From: I know you're frazzled, and you think I'll be doing the stuff I'm taking over so you're double booking that with your own stuff, but some of the stuff you have double booked is ALL MINE. And I can no more be two places at once than you can. THANKS! Also, for the LOVE OF GOD quit booking things on Mondays and Fridays. I don't want to fly out Sunday or fly home Saturday. Fuck you very much.

I have over 30 years before retirement, especially since social security (and possibly more importantly, medicare) won't kick in until, what, 67 by the time I'm there? And forget about a 401K...

I’m Tom Scola, and I endorse this message.

I'm glad you endorse the pie constituency!

If you retire at 65, they will keep paying your salary for five more years, even though you are retired and have no reponsibilities.

I like that plan. How about even earlier? I'll take...um...35? Then I'd only have to work a few more months!

My mother (over 65) doesn't want to retire, partly because of money, but I think mostly because she doesn't think she'll have enough to do. Which I actually get.

I can totally see being concerned about the money but I'm really hoping there's an insurance change in the next few years, so I don't have to wait to retire until I can get Medicare. My mom had to, because she is a breast cancer survivor and heck, at 63 even if it WEREN"T for that, insurance companies would charge an arm and a leg for individual coverage.

But I don't think I'd worry about the keeping busy thing--I'd just find classes or volunteer work or what have you. Travel, if I had the cash. Part time job if I didn't.

Holli, yes, Pocohantas: Brave Girl is absolutely one of them! When you have a chance to look through the boxes, we should talk.

I had so much fun doing the worldbuilding for that story.

The worldbuilding is fantastic! And the characters are all so spot on.

I can't even imagine working for that many more years. I am 37, and just about at the end of my patience with it!

I have a weird student situation. Last night we were readying costumes for a move to a storage facility. Student A had to leave early. She texted student B that we should not leave Student C to be the last one out, as he intended to a particular costume that. We waited him out, but today student B checked the costumes, and this costume is, indeed, missing.

I seriously do not know what to do. It is a 17th c. drag outfit, so not particularly useful to us. On the other hand, it has probably $300 - $400 worth of labor in it, plus there is the principle of the thing!

I would inform the program director of the facts and let him deal with it, except that he is crazy and makes everything worse.

Amy, I'll have a look sometime in the next few days. Where are you located-- you're not a DCista, are you?

Oh Sophia, that is awkward.

I would never run out of things to do, could I retire now.

Student A says Student C was intending to take the costume??

Did you talk to Student A about why she thought that?

(And, dag, if I had to deal with student drama I'd want to retire now too!)

Holli, where in DC is your shop? I'd love to come visit sometime!

lisah, I'm in Takoma Park, at Polly Sue's. And I work there Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 11-2.