weedfairy - January 15th, 2009

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Posted on:1/15/09 @ 11:17 pm
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as i've been saying, we're buried at work. it's too much. i don't let it get to me because i can only do what i can do and i don't slack. the three other women i work with are irritable and unhappy and complain constantly. so for two weeks we're going to try a couple of things to shift the work around, but it won't work because the main problem is we need another secretary. there's too much work for one person to handle. we need two. so if that position is created, rhonda will move into it. i will move into her job and they will hire someone for me to train for my job. it's only $0.50/hr more, but when everyone else is either unemployed, taking pay cuts, or worried about losing their job, a bit of a raise makes me happy. there is job security in child support enforcement when the economy sours. stacks and stacks of contempts because people lose their jobs and can't pay. petitions to contest driver's license suspension for non-payment. downward modifications. abating arrears. we're swamped. and there are some things about my job that i'm going to be happy to let go of. in two weeks we'll talk about it again and hopefully within a month we'll have someone.

remember a couple months ago when i chewed my office manager out? yesterday we ate lunch together and she thanked me for having that discussion. i told her that she's been totally awesome since then and i could tell she took everything i said extremely seriously and made immediate changes. we've got a much better working relationship now. and even when she's bitchy-feeling she doesn't snap at me. and she can tell i'm trying to be gentle with her when she's feeling irritated. i work with three extremely emotional women. and i'm an emotional person myself. i'd just rather die than show it at work. it's so unprofessional.

my brother has been looking around to buy a house. he's only found one that he was in love with, but someone else beat him on the bid. it's also a short-sale so it moves slower. he signed a contract to be the next in line for consideration should this other deal fall through. i told him they do, you know. often. especially these days. it's hard to get the bank to lend you money for anything. but apparently he's been thinking that he and his girlfriend and i could rent a house somewhere for a year or so and when prices come down a little more and more foreclosures put more houses on the market he'll start looking again. he doesn't want to buy something he doesn't love, but he REALLY wants to move the fuck out. i would LOVE to go, but i haven't asked. my parents want him to go but they aren't putting any pressure on me at all so staying here isn't a bad option. we're on complete opposite sides of the house and i help out and clean up after myself and am pleasant. and i pay rent. my brother doesn't do any of those things. so i told him sure, if he found a place he liked and thought what i can afford to pay him made it worth me moving in with him, i'd do it. his next question was what would i do if i hadn't made other arrangements by the time he's ready to buy? i told him not to worry about that. worst case i come back home.

so, some unexpected opportunities for the gradual betterment of my life. not a bad day :)

tonight was my first math class. yeah, the guy is pretty hot. barrel-shaped and laid back. pushing 50 maybe. i like him so far. i think i'm the only person in the class who hasn't had him before. tonight was pretty much a review of everything they did in the previous semester. so i took furious notes and barely managed to understand everything going on. i'll get my book in a few days and i'm going to do all of the homework problems. he gave us about 100 and said homework accounts for 5% of our grade. if we do five problems per section he assigns, he'll check them all on the day of the final. if you can produce that much you get the 5% boost. they are there for practice, and i need all the practice i can get. seriously, there were moments when he was speaking a foreign language. still, it was exciting. little puzzles to solve. hopefully it starts to make sense soon.

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