You should ask if the therapist is single. And hot.

Shit, Dana, that's so funny I might just have to.

Strix, is that a new one? I would recommend going through more of the old ones if you haven't, ie, the ones that are generic and CHEAP. I'm on generic zoloft, for example. Or is there a specific reason that one is being recommended to you?

Seriously?

That's what has always been quoted to me when I've been called for jury duty. In LA county the numbers are all a mess. They need something like a million jurors for the jury pool each year, and they only have an effective group to pull from of something like 1.8 million, so yeah, if you turn up you get called a lot.

I've been called more than once, but have never been placed on a jury.

As for my business, my rule of thumb when faced with a question of how to run my business is to do the thing I wish my former employers had done. I don't always succeed, but I do try. I also work under the idea that I will run my business the way that I think a businesses ought to be run, not how the current business community says they should be run. It may mean my business fails at some point, and if it does, at least I will be able to say it failed on my terms. So far, it's been successful.

Is that four weeks PAID? Holey moley. Nice!

ND, you are a role model.

Most I've had was... just over two weeks? And now I have exactly zero PTO. ::sigh:: Unless my boss (without warning) pays us for a holiday, which he did for Xmas (2 days) and Thanksgiving (1 day).

A couple of nice things: I found an iphone in the grass, soaking wet. I let it dry out in my car and then forgot about it for a couple of weeks. Called the owner, sent her the phone... she sent me a lovely thank you card and a $25 Visa card! I'm torn between using it for necessities or something totally frivolous. My neighbor also wrote me a nice note calling me the "glue" that held the fundraiser together; I suspect some bias since he and the organizer are like gasoline and matches, but I'm taking the compliment anyway.

Oh! I sent that guy a message asking if his therapist was single and attractive, and here's the response I got. Sounds like kind of a shitty therapist, really.

ol..he moved to seatle, go figure,he told me I was not capable of a healthy relationship and he just got married to a woman he met in aa. his name was john terry. oops was that confidential..lol..I learned don't take small things for granite, life isn't just short, its very short! tomorrow we will be tire old and grey..

Is that four weeks PAID?

Yep. It's important to both of us. We also cover 100% of health care.

For granite? Oy.

You really shouldn't take things for granite. It is quite scratchy.

Speaking of jobs, and mine, I maybe don't need to worry about using vacation time for jury duty.

My company is probably going to be bought by another publisher. And the staff, as usually happens, will be redundant.

Now. It's not a done deal -- as Big!Boss said, right now the potential buyer is "kicking the tires" to see if we're a used car worth buying. We'll probably know within 3-4 weeks if we're a bargain worth buying. And if we are, well, he didn't give us any idea of when we'll be out the door.

They might not decide to make an offer, of course, but I think that if Big!Boss thought it was important enough to tell us all about, then it's more likely than not that we'll be bought. (And it was kind of him to give us advance notice; he certainly didn't have to tell us anything until it was a done deal and we were well and truly fucked.)

I was not expecting this. Right now I'm so full of beer that the sheer panic hasn't set in. But tomorrow should be fun.

I imagine I'll need a lot of advice in the coming weeks, because it's been 18 years since I've looked for a job or interviewed and I'm pretty sure I'm entirely unemployable (okay, I'm panicking a little right now). And I didn't really want to look for a new job while I was planning a wedding, GOD DAMN IT.

Crapsticks.

Oh Tep.

Oh dear.