Paid up. Now need to register the poor car before I get scanned again.

I was in my last job for seven years and the previous one for eight. If someone dropped $20 million on my head I think I could find things to do that didn't have a paycheck. But until that happens, a job would be nice.

ETA: I'm glad you were able to work things out, Juliebird.

Jesus Christ, I don't get that much mail, so I only check my box once a week. If I'd put this one off even one more day, there'd be a warrant out for my arrest. I can't believe this ticket has been floating around the post office for over two weeks.

Every time I think I've settled into a career or at a company, the universe laughs in my face as it is doing right now.

Yeah, I'm afraid to get too complacent.

Juliebird, don't feel all by yourself, I let my registration expire for a YEAR and didn't even realize it until a cop pulled me over. So embarrassing. When I went to re-register, I had to get new plates, the clerk told me I'd been "out of the system" so long I'd disappeared. I almost said, "You mean I could have been committing crimes this whole time and I didn't know it?!" She probably wouldn't have laughed.

Juliana, I just applied (and put in your name as my referrer!) to Instacart. Who knows, it could work for me!

Juliebird, don't feel all by yourself, I let my registration expire for a YEAR and didn't even realize it

Yeah, I once let my Driver's License expire - and that's not on some random day, it was my birthday!

Now that my almost-heart-attack is over, can I just bitch at the scam that is yearly registration? My car is in the system. I haven't changed vehicles, it should be in the system forever until such changes. I'm still me, the car is still the same car, why does my life need to get fucked over because I didn't reinform the government that I'm still me and my car is still my car? It's registered. Once. Done. Thank goodness I don't need to register myself every year. I want the metrics on how much the payroll goes towards paying staff to process registrations every year vs. what the actual annual registrations bring in. Maybe it works in the governments favour, but then it's still just a bullshit tax.

Still, after last springs fiasco, I hate myself for letting it come to this again.

I think somebody needs to buy this for Jesse: [link]

That's awesome

I'm in my fifth year at my current job, and it's going to be my last year. (I've already decided that, if I don't get an academic job this year, then I'm going to look outside of academia. I do like teaching, but not here, and the fact that I'd probably like teaching at a different school is kind of a moot point if a different school won't hire me.)

My dad is 67, and not planning on retiring any time in the foreseeable future, though he definitely has been cutting back on his work hours in the past few years -- when I was a kid, he frequently wouldn't get home until 8 or 9, but now, he's usually home by 6 or 7. It's also been years since I've seen him lugging home boxes of files over the weekend, though at least part of that is because they're now online. But I definitely remember it as a fairly constant thing when I was a kid that my dad would spend pretty much all of his time at home with a file open in front of him, dictating his notes (back when there were typists in the office who would transcribe the tapes), and now, he'll maybe do an hour or so of that a week.

In other news, I actually was a key player in diverting a potentially disastrous partnership with another non-profit. Sometimes, I swear my gift is being non-politic and saying the shit that others won't. I discovered afterwards that the alternative idea that my boss and I had been spitballing, and was only brought up by me, would have laid unspoken. And it ended up being the idea we went with. Otherwise we would have still been hung up on a concept that was unreasonable, unfeasible, and costly, with no internal gain for the organization. And that idea, that the ED was so hung up on, he actually apologized for deep-sixing to me, like I hadn't actually just gotten my way (for once).