The good news is: the company I started working for yesterday want to hire me on permanently as soon as my allotted time with the temp agency is up. It’s just the sort of job I like — date entry and other office stuff, casual dress, a relaxed atmosphere. Actually it’s all good news. It’s a bit further from work than the other one, but it’s not that far, and as the job hours are 7 am to 4 pm, I avoid a good deal of morning traffic. (The afternoon is another matter, but 4 pm is still better than 5 o’clock.) The only thing I have to get used to is waking up before dawn, but I’ve never been a morning person so that’s always been something I have had to put up with. Another good thing is that they really need someone at this place — they are way understaffed — unlike the previous job where I always felt like an “extra.”
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my Paypal and Amazon tipjar in the past couple of weeks! In the next few weeks I hope to get back on track, but the end of the month and rent looms…
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June 24th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Congratulations, Andrea, that IS good news. I’ve wanted to put something in the tip jar for a long time now, but with Handsome Son-in-Law out of work, any spare cash I had went to that household. Now I’ve got care of a child whose mama will be paying me (a pittance, admittedly, but better than nothing) & soon as I can, I’ll send some your way…here’s hoping for FRIDAY. Again, Congratulations!
June 24th, 2008 at 7:43 pm
What are you going to rent looms for? And why more than one?
June 24th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Creating the fabric of her life?
June 24th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Naw, she’ll spin a web to snare her readers!
June 27th, 2008 at 10:52 am
A hearty congrats on the new job, Andrea.
Speaking of web-spinning, I went out to my garage this morning and found the biggest black widow spider I’ve ever seen. The mutant was so big it made me jump back. It was tucked in a corner where I couldn’t get a good whack at it, so Shelob is still out there, lurking, waiting for unwary Orcs…
June 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am
What, Spiny, you couldn’t shoot it? You don’t live in some place that bans guns, do you?
.45 ACP hollow points, my man.
June 28th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Flamethrower, Spiny. It’s the only way to be sure.
June 29th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
I was thinking of one of those professional exterminator kits.
Actually, I want to get a picture of it first because, otherwise, no one would ever believe me.
June 30th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Congrats Andrea hope you enjoy your new job as much as I do mine.
Spiny, fetch yourself a good pair of gloves and grind the little sod into the wall. Or a lighter and a can of bug spray, either works for me.