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Wait? You’ll PAY ME to do this?

So I told y’all a while back that I had a job. A design gig. It’s done. Well, sort of. But that’s another post for another time.
Anyway, I have to admit to cracking right up when I was told I could get paid to do something I love to do. When I submitted my [...]

Hyperfocus is good and bad.

Many scientists, writers, and artists with ADD have had very successful careers, in large part because of their ability to focus on what they’re doing for hours on end.
-Kathleen Nadeau, Ph.D.

Some days you gotta dance.

Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
-Colleen C. Barrett

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.

John Lennon said that, and I say again, that was one hep cat, my poppies, my preciouses, my pretties. Oh, man, have I missed blogging my sad little life to y’all. I think I am at long last back, at least until the next time I do something really stupid and ridiculous.
Woo. [...]

My boss is a hoot.

Or “Reason #45734985 I love Robbi.”
The following was left in my voicemail this afternoon.
Hey, Steph. This is [boss' actual first name]. I am calling to see how, realistically, you’re doing on that [case name] (or whatever the guy’s name is) because I was just reading your e-mail that it [my hysterectomy] was Monday which just [...]

My heart is bleeding all over my keyboard.

I’m sitting here bawling like a baby over some 16 year old kid I’ve never even met because he got sentenced to 90 months in adult prison under Oregon’s Ballot Measure 11. Well, that’s not what’s making me cry.
What’s making me cry is that he’s been in the blessed judicial system since he was eight [...]

Guest bloggers.

Alright, kids, in this last week before my girlbits are fixed, I’m going to push hard to make sure I have my job all done. (My boss will be happy to read this, I bet.) This means I won’t have much time for anything other than work and family. (I still don’t know why they [...]

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