Monthly Archive: September 2004

Not only has my first Free Friday been good to me, it’s been GREAT. I didn’t get anything done on the AWC directory, and I didn’t stuff the regional goodie bags, and I didn’t get anything done on my so-incredibly-long-overdue-family-webpage-update-it’s-ridiculous work, and I didn’t job hunt, and I didn’t clean the house, but… Karin and I had a lovely, relaxing, stress-free morning We picked up Martin and went to Farmor and Farfar’s and had a lovely, relaxing stress-free afternoon The weather has been absolutely dog-day-summer-perfect all day I got a postcard from the thoughtful and friendly esmecat, thank you Jenni!...

The Future’s So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades: 10 minutes before I left work yesterday, Johan emailed me an opening position at Axis Communications for a Marketing Assistant that might have been written FOR ME. In fact, it was an uncanny description of my current job. I had sent a resume to their HR department earlier in the day on a blind chance, so I shot off my resume and a cover letter to the contact, and went home feeling much better. Keep your fingers crossed or thumbs held!! Friday, Friday, So Good to Me! Anders and I decided that...

Number of Job-Search registrations: 11 and counting Number of times I have revised my resume and/or cover letters: approximately 1 squillion Number of jobs out there at this point in time that I’m qualified for/interested in: 3 Number of actual jobs applied for: 4 Number of resumes sent out for possibilities: 7 Percentage of chance any of those possibilities will actually turn into something viable: 40% Number of times I wanted to scream in frustration during the all-employee meeting this morning: 3 Answer to question Can you guarantee there won’t be any reductions before December 31st? at said meeting: No...

There’s so much drama online these days. Where do people find the energy? If I disagree with something someone says, I usually keep it to myself and move on*. I don’t feel this massive, pushing, labor-like pressure to vent it out and make someone feel bad or get defensive. I don’t think everyone has to know what I think about everything. As far as I’m concerned, everyone is entitled to their own feelings and opinions and if they’re wrong and backwards and need to get over themselves already, fine, whatever, but I don’t feel it’s my job to tell them...

Summer vacation is over and Mosaic Minds is out with another issue. This time the theme is self-acceptance, be it self-acceptance of the body or the soul. Go check it out, it’s one of our best issues ever! As always, we are constantly in need of excellent writing for future issues. Our next theme should be a lot of fun (Fears and Phobias) so submit early if you want to be sure to have your work included (submission deadline is September 30).