Carolina

  • I’m Alive

    And Well!  Got myself a new job, and there is nothing like being able to say “I don’t care” to yourself when corporate hands down another lame-o decision that you don’t have to worry about!  Plus since I put in my notice everyone has been coming up to me and saying nice things.  Work is still difficult but I know it’s almost over, and I’m taking a week off between this job and the next . . . during which time I will do lots of blog updating.  Right now I’m overwhelmed trying to close out here, so I’d better get back to it.  But soon I will give details…

  • Certified Tapeworm

    I have become a tapeworm.   I am an avid reader.  Anyone who has seen my library, which takes up half of my roughly 400SF shed, can attest to this.  Incidentally, it is in the shed because it didn’t fit in the house, which proclaims both the size of my bibliotheca and the lack of square footage in my “cozy” home.  My boyfriend’s brother-in-law Clif nobly assisted in my recent move to said cozy home.  He heroically muscled dozens of  boxes of books from apartment to car and car to house, box after box, admittedly with increasing ill humor and incredulity.  “Who on earth needs this many books?” he asked…

  • Cake or Death?

    This morning when my coworker walked the mail to the mailbox, she found a beautiful female deer dying in our grass.  It must have been hit by a car on the nearby highway – there was no visible blood or wound, but she was thrashing and trying to get up.  My instinct was to stroke her head and whisper soothing words while I waited for animal control to come and shoot her – I knew they would, who’s going to rehabilitate a deer?  But of course she would probably kill me if I got to close, or at the very least thrash more wildly and cause more pain, so instead I walked away so…

  • My First Time

    My kitten Bella is on my lap playing sneak attack with my sleeves, and totally ruining my concentration during this moment of moments – ah ah ah ah aaaah – when I write my first blog entry.  My blog addiction has come full circle, I’m now one of you all, you "spaces" people, who are going to lose me my job because you are way more interesting than the construction bizz.  Hmmm, let’s see – do sales report, read funny drug counselor experiences – report, read funnies, report, read funnies – now where would you come down?  My friend Amanda started this, evil tempter, and now I spend half my day…