I may become a subscriber to Baba Yaga's school of feminism.

Yes. Yes, this is a good plan. Also, I want that statue of Baba Yaga.

I am Being Productive. I've done laundry and making food for the next few days, and next it's unpacking and testing two pieces of equipment for the upcoming media empire, and editing the GCS post that goes up tomorrow.

Jesus Christ, there was a jillifont in the house that I honest to god thought was a Halloween decoration that Tim's BFF left as a joke. It was the biggest fucking jillifont I've ever seen in the house. In any house. It was about as big as those plastic jillifont rings people give out for trick or treat. Fucking enormous. I will never call the jillifont on the back porch "big" ever again.

I squished it with my sneaker, but it took a minute, because it was on the baseboard and kept moving, and when it moved I'd have to pull the furniture aside to get at it (a basket full of winter hats, an end table stacked with books, etc.), so then the living room looked like it had been ransacked.

Also, I killed that motherfucker about 45 minutes ago and I'm still twitchy and wired. Fucking ENORMOUS. Oh my god.

(I googled "wolf jillifont" [except, y'know, not "jillifont"], and I don't think that's what it was. But Jesus Christ it was big. It should have paid rent, or at least brought over a pizza.)

I got a significant raise today. A small portion of it is salary adjustment, but mostly merit. It's actually a shocking chunk of change. Even with getting a great review, I wasn't expecting that much. Which goes to show how much CSC was screwing me over. Jumping to the main contract a couple years ago got me a 20% bump & then they gave me a bonus & then a decent merit raise last year. But this...man. Budget might get lean in coming years, but this gives a lot of room.

And smacks my imposter syndrome upside the head.

Hide the extra money in a savings account where the imposter will never see it.

I googled "wolf jillifont" [except, y'know, not "jillifont"], and I don't think that's what it was. But Jesus Christ it was big

Sooo you may want to try googling "gigantic jillifont PNW" (or something similar), and see if the photos look like what you saw. I have no idea if they can be found in your part of the country (and there's no way in hell I'M googling that), but that's - no joke - the name of a type of jillifont that exists, and that like to live in houses. Like, our basement.

I'm upping my retirement savings.

That's great, sarameg!

Sooo you may want to try googling "gigantic jillifont PNW" (or something similar), and see if the photos look like what you saw. I have no idea if they can be found in your part of the country (and there's no way in hell I'M googling that), but that's - no joke - the name of a type of jillifont that exists, and that like to live in houses. Like, our basement.

Anyone who wants to read about this and see a photo can do so here: [link]

Jilli should definitely NOT click on that link.

Cereal:

YAY SARAMEG! That's awesome!