3
Feb
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Getting fired (or laid off) or perhaps even quitting voluntarily really rejiggers your work perspective. Take it from me, I was a typical type A workaholic person for years…and then my company laid me off, and I started to change.
For one thing, I stopped wanting to work so much. It’s a bit like being in a bad relationship—when you finally get out, you’re loathe to start something up again because you know what happened the last time. You stop trusting people so much.
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Tags: bad companies, bad jobs, bad men, choosing to quit, firings, from a layoff springs new opportunity!, layoffs, living to work, working to live
12
Jan
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It’s wonderful when you come out from under that cloud of sickness and can shout heavenward (or, in my case, froggily croak): “I’m alive! Praise be, I’m alive!”
Because the last few days, I’ve felt pretty undead, if you know what I mean. So here I am, workout clothes donned for some “light cardio” (they say it’s good for you if you have a cold, you know, immune-system-wise), writin’ posts all over the place, even calling Verizon to find out why my phone insists on erasing all of my text messages every 24 hours …
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Tags: airplane bathroom, airtran flight disruption, don't f with the tsa, feeling better, shaving midflight, voice back
17
Dec
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Today I’ll be playing the role of Andy Rooney, and you will be my amused viewership. You’ve tuned in, as usual, to see me go batshit on something rather mundane and universal to the human experience.
And this Thursday, that is: WAITING IN DOCTOR’S OFFICES.
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Tags: 60 minutes, andy rooney, blackberry broken, bob cratchit, botox, docked wages, doctor's office, holiday fire-happy, late, long wait, mr. scrooge, on time, people carrying things, upper east side dermatologist, waiting at the doctor, waiting rooms, who annoys me most, wrist hairs
6
Nov
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Apologies, I’m a little out of sorts today. It happened again. And I’m not sure it’s not going to happen over and over and over again … which has me a little worried. I dare say it is not good for one’s psyche to be jerked out of a pleasant sleep by stomping, shouting, accusatory blame, and furniture dragging.
Yet, I don’t know what to do about it.
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Tags: 3 am, 4 am, breakups, confrontation, crazy neighbors, dealing with neighbors, friendly relationship advice, Job Search, moving, nyc, out of sorts, REM sleep, salary negotiations, screaming neighbors, thin walls, wakeup call, waking up in the middle of the night
2
Nov
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Few things make me more cranky than waiting for money that’s due to me. I’ve trained myself not to even expect a check until after the first 30 days post invoicing, but when someone tells you it’s going to be sent on one day, and then it isn’t, it’s even worse than if they’d told you it was going to be 60 days in the first place.
That said, I realize companies have their own systems of paying you, and I’m sure those are highly intricate and complex machinations, but God, man! I have my own needs for the money I’ve earned (past tense) from you.
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Tags: 30 days past due, 60 days, accounts payable, ap, bella, COBRA, cranky monday, edward, freelancing, indian food, invoice 4, invoicing, jacob, money due, new moon, payback, paychecks, spoof, twilight, unwanted, vampires, vendors, waiting to get paid
18
Aug
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photo credit: CaDs
Today, while enduring the boredom and sense of tragic loss generated while one is stuck in an office but has very little to do—I know, I’m getting paid, but I just kept thinking of what I could have accomplished at home; also, I overhead some girls talking about how people who shop at the Gap are, like, JUST NOT LIKE THE REST OF US, and that kind of rubbed me the wrong way (sort of like the way my thighs rub together during an August heat wave, now that you mention it)—I got an email that perked my spirits considerably.
It was from the author of Amber’s Lust for Life. She said, “I just read your blog about Delta and thought you may enjoy this letter I wrote to the NWA Dining for Miles Program.”
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Tags: amber's lust for life, are you starving, carebridge guide, customer care, delta airlines, j. crew, jean valjean, northwest airlines, people like us, recession phenomenon, the gap, wal-mart
17
Aug
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photo credit: James Willamor
Dear Delta,
A word of advice: don’t fuck with an unemployed editor. She has time on her hands. And a computer. And she’s not afraid to write.
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Tags: colgate, comair, delta airlines, excess baggage, nashville, reimbursement for checked baggage, spf 50, time on my hands, true blood, tsa, unemployed editor
3
Aug
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If you aren’t exactly “gainfully employed,” are you allowed to have a case of the Mondays?
You know that totally irrational (or rational) crankiness that strikes you now and again? It’s in the back of your mind like a headache, and you almost forget what it is exactly, but you know that you’re irritated about something.
It’s that slightly nauseated/stoned/itchy feeling you get when you have to wake up far too early for a flight and you walk around the rest of the day a zombie person. Or you take some Klonopin that your mother’s friend gave you illicitly because you’ve never been a very good flyer, and then you ARE a zombie person. (And you love every hallucinatory second of it.)
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Tags: bad flyer, basil plant, case of the mondays, chocolate soy pudding, eric bana, gainfully employed, irrational crankiness, klonopin, rachel mcadams, red wine stains, the time traveler's wife, zombie person
