I turned down the job offer yesterday morning, after speaking with family and friends about it. As much as I need the money, and the first-day health benefits, well, if I took that job, packed up my shit, and started Monday, I would *really* need the health benefits because I’d break myself down. It took […]
For various reasons, I’m up late tonight, unable to sleep, and began obsessively clicking on my “stumbleupon” button in the upper right hand corner of my toolbar. Suddenly, I was brought up short with a pop-up window stating, “Unknown error – database failure.” I continued obsessively clicking on the button, and continued to get the
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Well, my old boss back in Chicago pulled through and made me a job offer. I asked for 45K and a 5K moving bonus. I received a job offer letter for 43K and a 4K moving bonus and a 30-day “free stay” at the company residential “service center” place. Medical starts right away. 3 weeks
Put this Insulin Calculator (scroll to the bottom) at the top of the list of things I wished I’d been made aware of when I first got diagnosed. It probably took me about 6 months to figure out the exact same conversation rate (base sugar number, plus amount of carbs you want to eat =
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I have an interview with my fourth Dayton temp agency tomorrow. Four. I’m curious as to how many more there actually are in this city. I suppose I may as well collect the set.
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But even women who don’t put their pictures or real names online are subject to virtual harassment. A recent study showed that when the gender of an online username appears female, they are 25 times more likely to experience harassment. The study, conducted by the University of Maryland, found that female user-names averaged 163 threatening
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I’ve been having some issues with my sugar since I got back from Spain, so I’ve been running numbers like this (as a refresher: a normal person has a fasting glucose of about 80. I need to stay under 150. Over 200, you do permanent damage. I record three times a day: before breakfast, lunch,
I’ve spent the last couple of days devouring Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel. It’s been a long time since I devoured a book with this kind of desperate hunger, and I think my compulsion to lock myself in my room in order to finish the book surprised even me. Hirsi Ali is the Somalian-born former Muslim
Called in available to my temp agencies and scheduled another interview for tomorrow at 10am with yet another temp agency. That’ll be three agencies I’m registered with. In the meantime, on my tax forms, I put down that my occupation was “writer.” It felt much better than writing “employed.” Anyway, more GW edits. The book’s
If I declare myself and business and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $1221. If I don’t declare myself a busines and report my writing income ($4500), then I owe $421. This probably wouldn’t have happened if I’d kept all of my con reciepts. EDIT: Final Federal taxes owed: $553 Yeah, right! I