I know nothing about insurance. Really, nothing. My crash course in how my insurance actually worked was my second day in the hospital, after having come out of a coma 24 hours before, when a woman from the hospital’s billing department called me and asked what my insurance information was. At that point, I couldn’t […]
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As of tomorrow at 8:00 am, I will officially be an employee of the financial services company downtown, working (officially!) as a document, technical, and copywriter. Benefits start first day. I’m not allowed to disclose how much I make according to the Employee Handbook or I’ll be fired, but I’ll say it’s more than I
They were doing July birthdays today, with cake, and the HR Manager went out and got a sugarfree pie.. just for me. I still have to take a shot for it, but it’s less likely to give me a headache. How terribly sweet.
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As I expected, associating “Good” and “Vabbenif” happens a lot more quickly in my lizard brain, but then, as shown, associating the pale figure with *anything* was something I did a lot more than with the dark figure. Try it for yourself. At least, I think that’s how I read these numbers (“0” was average.
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Stephanie’s Old Man’s parents, Nancy and Brian, are in town this week doing home repairs. They’re amazing. They’re replumbing and rewiring the whole house. Last night, Nancy and Stephanie took acetone and sandpaper to all the cabinets in the little kitchen to prep them for new paint and new doors. Today I came home to
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Life just keeps going, doesn’t it? I suppose that’s the definition, but yeah, boy, it just marches on regardless. Sometimes it’s just stunning, how that is.
Gee, I hope so. In a discussion over at Torque Control about a review of the October/Nov 2006 issue of the Mag of SF/F, one commenter pointed out that, as writers/industry pros who knew the writers of these stories, we weren’t looking at the critiques the reviewer made objectively. We were concentrating on the critique
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I work for a minority-owned company, and it just so happens that the majority of our franchisees are also minorities and women (I love the stupid word “minorities” to mean “not white!” because, you know, you put together all of the “not white” people, and suddenly, they’re not so much a minority, but Let’s Not