Notes & Errata

Finished Arcadia last night, just after midnight. Mmmmm... tasty play. Thanks again to zylch for the loan of it. I'll try to get it back to you on Sunday. Favorite line: "You, sir, have as little malice in your soul as poetry". All good - poetry, mathematics, history, sex, tortoises and vicious wordplay, all in the same little package. Yum.

This morning kittenpants inspires/shames me again - must start keeping a magical record again. (Must start practicing more often, so that there is something to record.) And dreams - I could stand to start recording them again, now that I've got myself back to the point where I'm remembering them.
*pokes self with poking stick*

Notes & Errata

Finished Arcadia last night, just after midnight. Mmmmm... tasty play. Thanks again to zylch for the loan of it. I'll try to get it back to you on Sunday. Favorite line: "You, sir, have as little malice in your soul as poetry". All good - poetry, mathematics, history, sex, tortoises and vicious wordplay, all in the same little package. Yum.

This morning kittenpants inspires/shames me again - must start keeping a magical record again. (Must start practicing more often, so that there is something to record.) And dreams - I could stand to start recording them again, now that I've got myself back to the point where I'm remembering them.
*pokes self with poking stick*

The Talk

Had The Talk(tm) with Human Resources today. The Holding Company is divesting itself of a significant portion of its assets (which I knew) and there will be major organizational shifts to come, which is to say that 1/2 to 2/3 of the staff will be released to go on to bigger and better things, or whatever.

It appears that I have a choice. Roll off, take a significant severance package (though no numbers were discussed, so I can't say how significant "significant" is), and find another job, potentially as soon as March, or stay on, and essentially become the MIS and HR departments, at a significantly increased pay rate (again, no numbers).

With a much-reduced staff and much-reduced interests, reasonably, absorbing these two functions would not increase my workload by much at all, as most of my current job function would also disappear into the ether. However, should the Company decide to acquire other assets (as it likely would eventually), I'd probably move into one or the other department as its head, (which is somewhat alarming to me - I'm perfectly capable of performing the functions of either of these departments, but I'm not sure I care for the concept that people might report to me).

Bleh. So apparently, I need to come to a decision on this within the next few weeks. Slack and take severence, or take a raise and a new job? Don't know. This would be a lot easier if there had been some numbers attached to these options.

The Talk

Had The Talk(tm) with Human Resources today. The Holding Company is divesting itself of a significant portion of its assets (which I knew) and there will be major organizational shifts to come, which is to say that 1/2 to 2/3 of the staff will be released to go on to bigger and better things, or whatever.

It appears that I have a choice. Roll off, take a significant severance package (though no numbers were discussed, so I can't say how significant "significant" is), and find another job, potentially as soon as March, or stay on, and essentially become the MIS and HR departments, at a significantly increased pay rate (again, no numbers).

With a much-reduced staff and much-reduced interests, reasonably, absorbing these two functions would not increase my workload by much at all, as most of my current job function would also disappear into the ether. However, should the Company decide to acquire other assets (as it likely would eventually), I'd probably move into one or the other department as its head, (which is somewhat alarming to me - I'm perfectly capable of performing the functions of either of these departments, but I'm not sure I care for the concept that people might report to me).

Bleh. So apparently, I need to come to a decision on this within the next few weeks. Slack and take severence, or take a raise and a new job? Don't know. This would be a lot easier if there had been some numbers attached to these options.

Friday Five

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
- Finish my 50 books for 50bookchallenge
- Return to regular magical practice and record-keeping
- Fix Asmodeus (the car) so that he will stop making that odd flappy noise
- Build a new altar
- Deal with the stuff I need to file at home

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
- Lucas (college-friend who disappeared on me)
- Kryn (non-gender-specific brother and erstwhile ex-girlfriend)
- STara and Pegasus (HPS and HP ... not that I've entirely lost contact with them, but I could stand to talk to them more often than I do)
- Summer (cousin)
- Dana (best friend from high school)

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
- Speak Welsh
- Brew beer
- Sew worth a damn
- Cook worth a damn
- Shut up when necessary

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
- Pay off all my debt
- Buy a hybrid car and put Asmodeus out to pasture
- Travel around until I got tired of it
- Establish a scholarship fund with bizarre qualifications for recipients
- Give extravagant gifts at random

5. List five things you do that help you relax.
- Read
- Do yoga-like floor gymnastics
- Bake cookies
- Indulge in meaningless debate and exploration of extremely unlikely hypothetical situations
- Appreciate coffee

Friday Five

1. List five things you'd like to accomplish by the end of the year.
- Finish my 50 books for 50bookchallenge
- Return to regular magical practice and record-keeping
- Fix Asmodeus (the car) so that he will stop making that odd flappy noise
- Build a new altar
- Deal with the stuff I need to file at home

2. List five people you've lost contact with that you'd like to hear from again.
- Lucas (college-friend who disappeared on me)
- Kryn (non-gender-specific brother and erstwhile ex-girlfriend)
- STara and Pegasus (HPS and HP ... not that I've entirely lost contact with them, but I could stand to talk to them more often than I do)
- Summer (cousin)
- Dana (best friend from high school)

3. List five things you'd like to learn how to do.
- Speak Welsh
- Brew beer
- Sew worth a damn
- Cook worth a damn
- Shut up when necessary

4. List five things you'd do if you won the lottery (no limit).
- Pay off all my debt
- Buy a hybrid car and put Asmodeus out to pasture
- Travel around until I got tired of it
- Establish a scholarship fund with bizarre qualifications for recipients
- Give extravagant gifts at random

5. List five things you do that help you relax.
- Read
- Do yoga-like floor gymnastics
- Bake cookies
- Indulge in meaningless debate and exploration of extremely unlikely hypothetical situations
- Appreciate coffee

Lemming alert

From rougewench,( and cut because nobody cares but me )

Lemming alert

From rougewench,( and cut because nobody cares but me )