Because I have photos to remind me of my sonās toddlerhood (heās going to be 29 in October!)
ā¦and hereās a mightyfine toilet ritecheer. Havenāt even used it myself yet.
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Just got an offer from my alma mater for a VL positionā¦
Also, put in two other applications at other places this morning (before the email came!).
Yay?
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Yes potentially triple yay.
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Possibly good news, but what is a āVL?ā 
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Tiny victory but my balcony chilli farm is coming along very nicely indeed.
Today, I repotted the existing chillis into bigger pots to make way for the new seeds that should (hopefully) arrive this week. I have chilli padi (birdās eyes in the west, I think) and a ālong chilliā growing at the moment but I have naga jolokia, Carolina reaper and some slightly less insane ancho seeds winging their way to me in the post at the moment, as well as a habanero that is germinating in the bathroom before I move it into the heat outside.
This is the ābeforeā photo:
Earlier this afternoon, my balcony looked like this:
Now it looks like this:
In the other corner, we have also planted a herb garden:
Feels like a productive day and now Iām (unsurprisingly) relaxing with a beer on the balcony and enjoying my handiwork.
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Well, thatās another year dealt with - and while itās not exactly āeasyā yet, following the Life Breaking Glitch, this one was an improvement on the previous one, and the year before that and the year before that. So thatās that. 
This is a victory I should commemorate, dammit, so yeah: Happy birthday to me.
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Visiting lecturer, itās a limited term position, with a heavy teaching load (in this case, a 4/4, meaning 4 classes per semester, fall and spring). Itās a 2 year appointment, and I donāt believe itās renewable. But it gives me a job for the next couple of years while I look for a tenure track, full time position (and work on getting a book contract for my dissertation).
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Iāll drink to that!
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I would gladly read your book
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One day, letās hope!
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I found out yesterday that the secretary I crowbarred off the allotment committee has been kicked off the site for stealing Ā£600 from the allotment funds. We knew heās done something dodgy when he claimed to have paid a plumber Ā£800 for work on the site and we very definitely didnāt have Ā£800 worth of work done. Weāve finally managed to get hold of the invoice and he canāt lie his way out of this one.
Itās sad though to think of how many people have been forced off the committee and off the site by his bullying behaviour over the years.
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I got the job at the discount crafts store I applied to about a month or so ago. I start on Tuesday, 7/25/17.
I burst into tears after I got into my car when I was about to leave. Iāll have to give up a lot of my assisted-living singing gigs. Iām happy, Iām anxious. The owner of the store looks like a cross between Sir Patrick Stewart and Frank Gorshin, leaning more toward SPS. I am NOT kidding.
Everyone is very friendly. Itās a diverse place, employee-wise. It opened up in 1991 at the location Iāll be working at, which happens to be only three miles or so from my house.
THIS IS SCARY FOR ME FOLKS, lol! I did NOT expect it to happen so quickly. I didnāt expect it to happen, period! When I first applied, I didnāt find out till afterward that it was for warehouse/driver, which Iām not. I gather from what the owner told me during my interview that folks who couldnāt make it in to work on time got fired and they need replacements.
And the employee manual says nothing about drug testing. And I think heās ex-military, because the manual lists the order of management as āchain of commandā.
Iām still freaking out. I need to eat something.
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Congratulations!!!
I have some insight into the warehouse job business and showing up is THE big thing they look for. I know one company that spent so much time hiring people who wouldnāt show up that they hired a temp agency to keep bodies showing up.
Are you excited? You say you are scared. Why is that?
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Iāll working the floor, lots of customer service but also restocking. Heck, I thought showing up on time was vital for any job, lol!
Iām scared/excited (scexcited? excitared?) because I havenāt worked with people on a regular basis outside the home for over eight years.
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Youād be shocked how many people donāt make it to work on time, or every day.
I like the chatter around the water cooler aspect of work; meeting people in the hallway and being like, āOh, got the Mondays?ā or āReady for the weekend?ā
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I was about to say the same thing!
@Lucy_Gothro be friendly but avoid any staff-related drama if you can. Customers can be great but they can also be awful. Just remember that you may have to deal with them being arseholes for 10 minutes but they have to deal with being an arsehole for the rest of their life - donāt let it get to you.
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I worked in the subscription department of a local publishing venture in the Detroit area for four years - one of the teenagers hired by my dept. manager ended up hiding cocaine in the warehouse, then breaking in with her boyfriend, whoād previously pushed her downstairs while she was pregnant and cut her hair off and dropped it off at her motherās house, and stealing it. I got in trouble for reporting it to a local newspaper; the cops werenāt even called.
I got fired, actually. And thatās just the LAST incident I experienced there. It had more drama than any soap opera ever ever ever ever!
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I like the getting-paid aspect of work.
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woah. Thatās insane. But you got fired? because???
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