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New Years!

Posted on December 31, 2009
With the momentous nature of a day like this, I thought I'd revisit my nearly derelict blog to say hello once more. I too have survived this year, and in a moment of reflection hope like hell that this next year brings much happiness and good things to everyone...

Where has the time gone...

Posted on September 11, 2009
Yup, I'm alive. Not that there's anyone left to read this. But something told me to stop by today and update this long defunct blog. Sadly, I have no good news to share. I am still unemployed. I've added a bunch of committees and organizations to my resume, but nothing that has led to a real job...

No gnus is new gnus...

Posted on May 06, 2009
I realized today it was nearly 2 months since I last updated here. Things are about the same as I last left it. Still unemployed, but still enjoying life. I've gone to 3 CLEs, done some volunteer work I would not have had the chance to do, and done a bit of writing...

Yup, me too.

Posted on March 09, 2009
Well I didn't realize how prescient my last post was. Within a week of that posting, I too lost my job. As everything else at that job, even the layoff did not go well. Instead of just being forthright and saying that we have no work I'll have to let you go, it went down with me being called into the office and being forced to try and justify my continued existence at work...

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Where does the time go?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Suffice it to say I didn't get the job. Lovely ding letter, but I came up short again. This has put me in a bit of a funk, so I haven't been blogging. Nothing good to say I suppose. Bit of Twitter, which is a huge timesink, and more Facebook nonsense, but nothing good in my professional career...

Today is the first day of something good!

Posted on February 03, 2009
I have an interview today! The firm is moving quickly, as I only put my resume in last Thursday. Heartening, most definitely. Scary, nearly as much. I've been practicing my questions, working on introducing myself so that I don't sound like an idiot, and trying not to get stuff on my suit at lunch...

The Day After

Posted on January 21, 2009
Like many of you, I sat transfixed yesterday watching the pageantry and historical significance of the inauguration. The speech was moving and angry at times, as was the crowd. When the chant of na-na-na-na goodbye went up from the crowd as the Bushes' helicopter passed overhead, you knew where the crowd stood politically...

So I hear you can't write...

Posted on January 16, 2009
Yesterday was my review. I'm still employed, so I guess that's a start. Our bonuses were pared back considerably, but since I got considerably less than everyone else last year, I didn't have that much to be pared. But of course, this all came at a cost...

First of 2009!

Posted on January 08, 2009
I came clean to my job coach today that I blog. I think he was concerned that this blog may be impinging my job prospects, but I said, "If they figure out who I am based on this blog, I give them a lot of credit." Now, don't anyone take this statement as a challenge...

Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2008
The best thing about a new year is that it's a new start. The calendar flips over and the new year is full of possibilities. I wanted to drop a quick line to all my bloggie friends and wish them a fantastic 2009, and may all the new possibilities that are just waiting to be grasped be made aware to you...

Happy Birthday to me!

Posted on December 17, 2008
Yes, indeed Beanie is one whole year older. Wiser? Not necessarily, I'm still working at the same job. In fact, tomorrow is my 2nd anniversary here in hell. Makes me feel like my 33rd year on Earth was a bit of a downer. But on the bright side, I'm healthy, loved, and live in a lovely home...

Wow, I haven't written in that long?

Posted on December 04, 2008
I'm so bad about keeping up with the blog these days. I'm on Facebook a lot, and honestly it's much easier to dash off a one sentence status than pouring out my soul here. Though, the blog is much more cathartic. And it always has been, which is why I started it in the first place...

Bad bad blogger I am...

Posted on November 24, 2008
I know as I get older I stop blogging as much...heh. Actually I don't blog as much any more mostly because each of my blog posts are a whine fest. Yeah, work sucks. Yeah, I'm trying to do something about it. Of course, I couldn't have picked a worse time in the economy to try and do this...

Oh why am I here?

Posted on November 11, 2008
Everyday for the last week or so, I've asked why I am here. Here, being work. Like today for instance. It's Veterans Day. (Thank you veterans!) Me, I'm at work. Why? I have no clue. With banks closed, none of my deals can close. No fed, no wires...

Hope Springs Eternal

Posted on November 05, 2008
Like most of my fellow Americans, I too was glued to my television last night, along with my computer, keeping tabs on all the election coverage. When I heard about the issues with the ballots in Palm Beach county I started ranting...that we should just force the state to secede, whether they wanted to or not...

It's Election Day!

Posted on November 04, 2008
I'm sure you've already heard a million pleas to go out and vote today, but here's one more. Stand in line, as long as it takes, and vote! Maybe if you're lucky you'll get a sticker. We never get stickers. Then go and get your free ice cream, coffee, and donut! It's the tasty way to celebrate democracy...

Happy Halloween!

Posted on October 31, 2008
Happy Halloween everyone! I know I sound like such a spoilsport when I say this, but I wish it would rain or something tonight, because it's a Friday Halloween. This means bad things in my neighborhood. Gangs of roving teenagers doing all sorts of vandalism to our homes, and because it's Friday and good weather, nothing at all to make them go home...

My car loves me...

Posted on October 28, 2008
My car is not old. My car only has 16,000 miles on it. However, the other day I hear what sounded like squealing coming from my brakes. This is disturbing, because this should not be happening on my car. So, as I do every time something weird happens, I take it to the dealership...

Damn, already?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Last night it happened for the first time. My car showed the dreaded snowflake. On my car, when the temp hits 37 or lower, I get a chime and a snowflake. Last night it popped up while I was making a banzai run for cinnamon. Yes, cinnamon. Hard to make an apple pie when you have no cinnamon in the house...

Cruel cruel world...

Posted on October 08, 2008
My reward for my vacation? Being buried alive in work. One of my fellow associates thought that perhaps they needed time off too and took off the week after me, leaving me with not only all the work of mine that had sat around, but theirs too. After having a meeting with my boss in which I was given more work than 3 associates should have, let alone me, I blew my stack...

So that's what happened while I was away?

Posted on September 30, 2008
So I took a week's vacation for the first time since April. I will suffer for doing this. Not only is my car in the shop getting door actuators repaired, but it seems that my work was put in some sort of perpetual loop while I was away and absolutely nothing was done with anything...

Hope arises anew....

Posted on September 15, 2008
I took the radical step of getting myself a career counselor. I see it almost like work therapy. I have tasks to do to make myself accountable for my career quest, and each week we meet to discuss what needs to be done and what has happened. For the first time in a long time, I actually feel hopeful about finding a firm/office that fits who I am...

Back to the grind...

Posted on September 10, 2008
The trip was great. We got to see the ocean, eat lots of good food, spend a couple blissful days at a B&B, and even got to visit a new winery. Of course, before I even made it back home I received a call from work and was told I _had_ to come in early to put out fires that my boss couldn't or rather wouldn't handle...

Happy Anniversary Honey!

Posted on September 05, 2008
After a day off that found me sitting in a cemetery on a beautiful sunny day celebrating and memorializing the gift of my grandfather to an anatomical gift program, we are packing tonight for a trip to celebrate and memorialize our 10th wedding anniversary...

Meltdown...

Posted on September 03, 2008
I'm having a meltdown today at work. I've taken abuse for doing my job in an efficient manner, taken abuse for asking a question, I've had to beg people to do their jobs today, and gotten blindsided on other tasks. I feel like I'm going to throw up, want to just sob, and get the joy of having all this happen without my boss not being in the office yet...

Happy Labor Day!

Posted on September 01, 2008
It's a three-day weekend! Sadly, our friends in Louisiana aren't enjoying the same weather we're having. Here's hoping the levees hold this time. We've been lazing about here, went to a fair yesterday and ate baked potatoes and funnel cakes. Mmmm...

The View Never Changes

Posted on August 22, 2008
Fast forward 12 hours, and I'm doing the same thing, even though the secretary is working today. Because why would you have a secretary make changes when you can make the associate do it? Occasionally I'm told to "try my hand at something" only to have the paragraph excised in total on the next round of edits...

Secretary Needed...85WPM+

Posted on August 21, 2008
I sit because I wait. I wait because my boss procrastinates. I wait further because I have ceased to be a lawyer, I'm a secretary. I get to turn my boss's edits to a document that ceased to be anything I wrote 4 hours ago. Literally, there is no sentence in the document that hasn't been rewritten in some fashion...

Clean Teeth and Hopefully A New Job?

Posted on August 18, 2008
While watching the Olympics has seemingly taken over every evening of my life of late, I have a week of appointments ahead. I get to go to the dentist, which I hate with a passion, even though I have good teeth. We'll have the whole "We need to take x-rays" talk, and then I'll remind them that they just took x-rays and that it really is not necessary...

Just Come Out and Say You Don't Trust Me

Posted on August 08, 2008
Yesterday was a decent day at work. No boss, but things were completed anyway. I was given authorization to go ahead and actually do something with authority for those 8 hours the boss wasn't present. It's amazing what the lack of bureaucracy will do for productivity...

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