best places to work

http://www.glassdoor.com/Best-Places-to-Work-LST_KQ0,19.htm?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=best-lj-best&utm_campaign=best-lj

a plan

today the good doctor asked if there was a plan in place for what happens if

sort of

ish

but mostly, i resist.

please please please don't fire us

74,000 people in the state are unemployed. (fact acquired today at work).

(sighs)

even more worried

weepy all afternoon
and then, and now watching the news.

vodka being used to sterilize wounds in haiti

what am i whining about?
i hate this

worried

that's it

worried

worriedthat

a good guest

for the anxiety buffet

http://www.providencepsychology.com/about.html#trunzo

anxiety buffet

HR has flagged my file. apparently the documentation of common law marriage has been misplaced.
My insurance status hasn't changed at my workplace for in 13 years. My benefits officer prefers to be called my benefits rep.

She is kind.
Nonetheless, this trifecta of uncertainty has the effect of dust bunny movement. Start to sweep one and then more appear, tumble, cascade. Each little bunny merging with the next; each little worry gaining its own momentum. the sum of the parts.

gentle hostility

our workplace is offering training on dealing with hostile visitors, i.e. people entering buildings with unclear intentions, or perhaps weapons, aggression or who all knows what.

as people are being voted off the island, it seems likely that this training might be more than rhetorical.

we're not the post office, but still. interesting that we're now being told about it.

and this, too: what bad looks like continues

The Safety Net Living on Nothing but Food Stamps

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01 /03/us/03foodstamps.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

oh. wait. this is what bad is

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/nyregion/02laborers.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes

need for gratitude for what we have and outrage against what many don't.
bravely onward?