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.

Well that just sucks, Teppy.

Tep, that is a total pisser. Oy.

Oh, no, Teppy.

You are so not unemployable.

I'm trying to be objective about this. Big!Boss can do whatever he likes with his company. He said -- no one used the terms "fired," "redundant," "out of a job," or the like -- that he intends to "help us all as much as [he] can."

Despite how weird that place can be/has been, I actually believe him on that. He has done quite a lot for the employees over the years, and I have no reason to believe he'll shaft us on severance.

Wow. I am actually talking about getting severance.

Tim made a very good point tonight, which is that the company has been in dire financial straits for a while. If Big!Boss *didn't* sell, and just let the company limp along until he had to shutter it for good, he might not be in a position to give us decent severance, even if he wanted to. But if he sells the company, that might put him in a better financial situation to do right by us.

So there's that.

And I've been really burned out on editing for...well, for quite a while now. This is certainly a way to push me into something else. I just don't know what it might be.

Tim is a little thrown by the fact that I'm not flipping out, but, to be fair, I've had a LOT of beer. And a potato.