professional fiduciary

I need to find my sister one of these, so she can name a backup in case I'm incapacitated. She'll never trust anyone but me to do it right, though; I suspect she doesn't really trust that I can do it.

Calling someone with bad news is definitely not my idea of a good time. It must be someone's idea of good manners?

Thank you all for your tips and commiseration. Strix, insent with a big old THANK YOU!

Glam, move to Seattle, not the southeast!

I was rejected AGAIN by the same big company I interviewed with last year. Hrmph. We are looking at the southeast to be closer to family (they all live in SC) and to just scale back on the stress of living in the city. We're ready for a quiet, simple family life for now. I like Seattle, but the commute looks insane and the cost of living isn't much less than LA so...

Calling someone with bad news is definitely not my idea of a good time. It must be someone's idea of good manners?

It's the first phone rejection I've had. There've been a couple of dozen no-thanks emails from other orgs. Some people have trouble with phones and prefer email. Maybe she was the opposite.

Calling someone with bad news is definitely not my idea of a good time. It must be someone's idea of good manners?

My first job out of college, on my first day, my boss had me send a letter (this was 1994) to the other person who interviewed for my position. I mean, he gave me a tape that he dictated and I had to transcribe it. And it started with "I am pleased to announce we have hired Stephanie L..."

And I thought, who that fuck DOES that to someone who you're rejecting? "I am PLEASED to announce?" That's just cruel. It totally gets the person's hopes up and then crushes them. But it was my very first day in my very first job, so I didn't want to start my career as a Working Lady by saying, "Um, bossman, I think this gives the wrong impression..."

"I am PLEASED to announce?"

That's the thing. When someone calls sounding like she just got a puppy, all "I'm from [org] and I'm calling for [Calli]" I kind of expect the rest of the conversation to continue in a more pleasant direction.

Meh. Mercury's in retrograde until tomorrow afternoon. Ima let this go.

I was rejected AGAIN by the same big company I interviewed with last year. Hrmph.

Oh boo. I would say the cost of living depends--for the same price that I would've paid in DC, I got a place much closer to all the "stuff". And in DC you have to go pretty darn far out to get to relatively-cheap suburbs. However, I'm not sure how that all works in LA, since there's so many different neighborhoods/cities that are so spread apart!

And I thought, who that fuck DOES that to someone who you're rejecting?

It's so nuts it's pretty similar to the pilot of Newsradio (where Jimmy James makes Dave fire his predecessor on his first day).

In Illinois, if your executor is not an Illinois resident they have to put up a cash bond before they can access any accounts. Definitely something to check on if you've moved states. That could be an awful position to put someone in inadvertently.

Timelies all! (Timelies now pops up in my spellcheck thingie. Hee.)

In the airport waiting for our flight to Columbus.