Right, PC, but don't stress about being in a good job for seven years! Sheesh. Sounds like you enjoy the work, get paid really well, and even have stocks for longer term investment. Bonus! If the company gets bought and things change, I have no doubt you will find another great job in the field. In the short term, though, you're in an enviable position.

Tep, I know it sounds corny, but have you ever tried meditation?

Which would immediately get sidetracked by pop culture and anxiety.

And anxiety about pop culture! Last night I was stressing out about all the books I need to read in the next couple months and trying to work out a reading schedule to get through them conveniently, working around Comic-Con and LoneStarCon.

If the company gets bought and things change, I have no doubt you will find another great job in the field.

Maybe I can take a month off and read and watch a shitload of stuff. Or, I don't know, write stuff.

No need to move,but update your resume,ESP if there are rumors of being bought out

Tep, I know it sounds corny, but have you ever tried meditation?

I have, but not for a long time. I can't imagine slowing my brain down enough to meditate right now (and I realize that the *point* of meditation is to slow my brain down, so I have a whole chicken-and-egg thing going on).

No need to move,but update your resume,ESP if there are rumors of being bought out

Luckily, I'd just updated it since I'm finally getting a promotion. Well, presumably, unless things get shaken up between now and September.

Of course now I'm working in a job where we essentially use coded text speak but hey, we get places via all kindsa weird paths.

A new language? LOLcop?

I have, but not for a long time. I can't imagine slowing my brain down enough to meditate right now (and I realize that the *point* of meditation is to slow my brain down, so I have a whole chicken-and-egg thing going on).

I'm still on my media fast...which is both easy and hard...but wanted to comment on an option for meditation that is easier for me than traditional meditation.

I, too, have a whirly-gig mind so simply 'emptying it' doesn't seem possible for me.

So, besides drawing...which is doing me a WORLD of good, I use Heartmath. I bypass most of the zen language and focus on the physical aspects of the process and it works pretty well for me.

Contracts are signed and our journals are officially no longer our journals. (We have to send the bi-monthly journal to the printer tomorrow, though, so I'm still working on stuff.)

We aren't having a meeting about the transition period or anything until Monday (rather than tomorrow). Inefficient to the end.

I'm trying to hold my shit together, man. This is huge. Plus I have a journal to finish.

Steph, do you have an idea if staff for certain are all being let go? Or is that still up in the air?

Only one staff member is staying on, because he manages the peer-review process, which is an arcane and weird thing, and one the new publisher won't be able to just pick up from Day 1. So he has a contract with them. The rest of us wait to see what kind of severance we get and how many office supplies we can steal.

Katy Perry assures me I am a firework, so it'll all be okay. After the hyperventilating panic attack.