Huh. I hope your severance package is good.

10 weeks, paid weekly, I think. It's better than Countrywide. Of course I need to sign papers saying I won't say anything bad about employers, but it's not like I'm going to name them soon. SO THERE.

My manager was not good at managing, and I think they realised that. She's now been moved to be the only person in the former CIO (now CTO, I'm sure the difference is both huge and subtle)'s department. I'm actually really happy about that. First, she's not managing people anymore, and secondly she'll get some of the joy of being a 2 person department, except I don't think she'll have as much influence as I did, since her new boss isn't new to the company at all.

I just realised yesterday I no longer have my cool Staples discount. Of course, but sad.

Here's an accent/dialect analyser that spans more than America or even native English speakers. It got me wrong, but I read the instructions wrong--for the multiple choice questions you can pick more than one answer but I didn't realise at first. So I'm going to try it again.

*****NSFW QUESTIONS******

Since I have no boy to test on, I have to ask:

1. I read that men have as many happy nerve receptors in the nipple as women, but their stimulation seems either exaggerated or underplayed in fic.

2. Do men and women have the same quality and quantity of nerve endings in the anus? Because fics always have men rimmed to just short of orgasm, but most of the writers realise that with just the tongue there's really unlikely to be prostate stimulation happening. So is it equal fun?

I can't remember the name of the Table Talk poster, but there was one woman who could not stop talking about how much better anal got her off than PIV. I can't even remember what threads these were, but she was some damned evangelist. I'm not saying it's not fun, but if it were up to her, het breeding would be an endangered species. Hey, I wonder if you could have a surgery that puts a tract that let semen come to the cervix.womb through anal. And then I realised I was an idiot and we're lucky we are as minimally sanitary as we are. Still...you could make one for the upper digestive tract too, and then just about anything could get fertile women preggers. That would, you know, suck.

**** END OF NSFW ****

I just got a friend request from a guy I went to the state science fair with when I was in 9th grade, back in the Cretaceous Period. He was older and studiously ignored me. I would never have imagined he would have remembered my existence.

I thought for a second Ginger's 9th grade guy friend had the answer to the anal stimulation.

TMI As someone who has a lot of digestive issues, I cannot imagine enjoying someone being anywhere there.

They got me.

1. American (Standard) 2. Canadian 3. US Black Vernacular / Ebonics

US, Canada, and 12 years of inner city public school pretty much covers my linguistic history.

The made me out to be:

1. Canadian
2. Standard American
3. Singaporean

And listed my probable native languages as:

1. English
2. Dutch
3. Norwegian

Interesting.

They didn't get me, but close enough for hand grenades: England, Scotland, Wales. I am surprised American Standard didn't show up anywhere, though. But I suspect that's more my accent than my grammar. So many of the grammar questions looked right or incontrovertibly who speaks like that and gets understood wrong.

I'm also curious about what the questions with the picture choices reveal beyond comprehension.

And I got my first "nope, not you" email from the Space Telescope people. It's preferable to tossing applications into the void, but still disappointing.

I got American, Ebonics, Singaporean. I was a bit puzzled on a few of the last questions, where it was asking "is this grammatical" or whatever--some of the sentences I thought were proper grammar, but that I probably wouldn't say. Others were probably NOT "proper", but I would totally say. So I ended up marking both of them...

Got my first round 1 interview. For a job that's supposed to be in Phoenix, but they'd let me work out of...just around the corner from former employer. So it'll be a phone screen next Tuesday.

At the Phoenix office, they let you work from home 1 day a week standard. The LA location is short on space, so I'll sacrifice what I need if it works out.

If I get it, it will be interesting--one of my krav friends/students (the first one I kicked in the nuts as a disciplinary action) works in IT there too. He's also the only krav person I purposely saw since I stopped training, although we were combative all the time. He went to school down the street from me in London (at our affiliated boys school, to be accurate) and then we turned out to both start studying krav here around the same time and living within 10 minutes of each other.

But...no expectations, just calm and preparation.

As. Calli, sorry. If it is any consolation, they keep resumes in the pool for while.

Just work up (yup, still napping a bit*) to a storm of the sort that makes roofs and basements leak.

I should go check both.

* it's probably good I started having frustration dreams just before I woke up. That's usually indicative that I've had enough sleep, as opposed to the no dreams I had during all my sleeps yesterday. Though where the keep-losing-the-puppy theme came from, I have no idea.