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rambling update on life and change
| Sunday, July 17, 2005 @ 17:49 I guess I lost track of when I wrote last. I knew it had been awhile, but the weeks just got away from me. Some progress on art projects. Some progress on job hunting -- mainly sending out resumes and dealing with temp agencies. Much anxiety about filing for unemployment for the first time in my life. A roller coaster with boy's job deciding to cut hours and telling him to go on unemployment as work share and then giving him back the hours due to staff changes. All-in-all a busy, but far from filled month. The result is that we went to bed last Sunday with me having no prospects and boy being employed by the country club and we're going to bed tonight knowing that boy starts training for his new job at 6:30am and I start a temp job at 9am that could lead to a "permanent" hire. Talk about a whirlwind week. Oh! and we've been more social than I can remember: Last Saturday we met up with a lesbian M/s couple for coffee and stayed at Starbucks for something like five hours. Sunday we went to a Arizona Leather Alliance meeting and then out with two friends for dinner that wound up at our house with me giving one of them a caning lesson/demo while the other chimed in with her own experiences. Thursday was a planning committee meeting here that ended up with boy giving his belated birthday spanks to girl c while the femme provided verbal torment. Friday we ended up going to see "War of the Worlds" with the Femme & the Butch (same couple as Sunday) and then an after-movie snack at California Pizza Kitchen. Yesterday, the Femme called just before 7am to ask if she could come over to sleep since their power was off and she had to work, so she came over and crashed. When we returned from errands at 2:30, she was awake and we got to spend more quality time with her (4x in one week!!). After she headed off to work, we did some house stuff and then girl c came over with her son to measure boy's pants (she was hemming his new uniform for us). This morning she brought the pants back and we spent over an hour chatting with her. We were supposed to get together with Sean-Michael & girl debra, but that fell through.... And I wonder why I'm so tired after the job changes and the sudden existence of a social life. At least I've been too busy to contemplate the stress and anxiety I used to associate with a temp job -- let alone a temp job that could lead to be hired. I just remind mysElf that I am capable, intelligent, and adaptable. Plus, for some strange reason, people seem to find me trustworthy and calming (not always, but usually). I also remember that the last three jobs I've had started out as temp/temp-to-hire (starting in 1996). So, this would be the fourth if it goes well. Don't get me wrong. We're both excited about both opportunities. If you read boy's journal, you know that this is quite an opportunity for him -- to move up to a management position with much better pay and benefits with a company that provides for learning and future promotions. I wasn't about to let him pass that one. And mine has potential as well. I'm starting off as a receptionist for a week or two, but it's really an on-the-job interview to become administrative assistant to the director of a non-profit organization. If the first part goes well, they'll put me as temp-to-hire as an admin asst at a pay hike. After the 90-day trial through the agency, I can go on their payroll (and negotiate another pay raise, since I'll have proven my skills and fit with the organization). I'm looking forward to this chance to get out of the corporate culture and back to an organization that helps people in a manner that is in alignment with my personal beliefs. I guess the biggest change (other than learning to take the bus to work, since boy's job starts prior to the bus lines running) is that we'll have to go to bed much earlier. Once his two days of training if over, boy will have to be clocked in and ready to go at 5am. That means he'll be getting up at 3:30am for work. No more staying up until 11 or midnight for us. More like 8pm bedtime -- which is less than three hours after I get home. Tonight we're planning on 9/9:30m for bed (since he doesn't have to be up until 5am).
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