and now I'm more confident that I am qualified to apply for one of the open positions. I have some ideas on how to tweak my resume, too.

This is good.

It does sound yummy.

It's crazy good. But it's not mild. Store it with the Scotch or something adult-y and enjoy without kids. Actually, if you find it, buy it all for me and I will save your kids from the spicy? It's really good.

>Those sound like positive developments, shrift

Yeah, I hope so. I'm going to pursue this position and to continue with my decluttering plans, and try to dial down the panic a little.

I'm going through the yearly security review. It looks like management has given up on keeping people from surfing the Net during work. They're emphasizing making sure that it doesn't interfere with work and you're not doing stupid things.

Fingers crossed for you shrift!

I got Hubby's adoption papers from Hawaii on the off chance his California birth certificate had a different name on it, but California had a revised certificate with his adopted name on it. Which I didn't realize because Hawaii was a whole lot more efficient about getting documents back to me than California was, but it was fun chatting with the folks in the Hawaiian state records office. They do answer the phone with Aloha.

Mm hmm. Was it the SHORT FORM? Or are you sure he wasn't born...IN KENYA??

I spent several hours this afternoon cleaning my office and rearranging some things, because my project is almost over and I start a new one after Thanksgiving (with only a few minor things to finish up before then). So nice.

Well, he was born in California, but he went to Germany when he was 3 days old, so maybe . . .

ION, my instant miso soup is very disappointing. Very fishy. Is miso supposed to be fishy at all?

Cass has me drooling for Hatch Valley Salsa. I will look for that at our TJ's. Oh what a joy to finally have that option!

Fishy miso does not sound nice at all.

The reconstituted tofu wasn't bad, but the broth is getting dumped. I think I'm going to have to go get good miso tomorrow as penance.

It's not that I think my coworkers are incompetent , just some have higher learning curves to climb and are a little slower to climb and a little less adventurous) It's mostly that looking at the schedule and everything that needs to be done, there can't be a single setback without consequences, and having inexperienced people doing the setup for the first time? Is fraught. And we just lost another coworker for at least a week due to the death of his father. And he was one of the experienced ones, too.

Not gonna start packing until this load of laundry finishes.

So I went to a work happy hour, which was fun, except I spilled half of my second (SECOND) beer all over two of my favorite coworkers! So then I was cut off. Ooops.

Jesse's a cheap date, pass it on.