Today’s Holidailies prompt is: “How is this December different from last year?” Where to begin… Last December, I was under the impression that my contract was coming to an end, because I was informed at the beginning (by both my manager and my agency) that my contract was six months. And December 19th was the …
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Dec 05 2007
Model Kits
I bought a few model kits off of eBay recently, because the kits I was looking for are no longer being produced these days. Especially in this day and age of no Trek products being produced anymore, it seems like the kits have gone the way of the Dodo. At least, until the next Trek …
Dec 04 2007
Comp Day
As promised from the previous weekend’s on-call mayhem, my boss allowed me to take one day off this week to sort of recuperate and do nothing. I, of course, did not hesitate to take him up on his offer and so I chose today to do that. I spent a majority of my day over …
Dec 03 2007
Road
Today’s Holidailies prompt is: “What childhood activity do you miss? What childhood activities have you refused to give up?” Around my neighborhood, we used to ride our bikes up and down the block constantly. So much so, that we made up a game called “Road.” The sidewalk on our block was inset from the road …
Dec 02 2007
Powder
Today’s Holidailies prompt is: “Tell us a story about snow.” I honestly have not been up to the snow in quite some time. The last time I saw snow fall was actually while I was visiting Abbie in Philadelphia in February 2005. I flew to Philly with my California clothes, which I guess was a …
Dec 01 2007
On-Call != Fun
As many of you already know, every so often, I come up in the on-call rotation for my job. Being on-call means that you sacrifice your off-time to catch calls coming into the support center. We’re technically a 24/7 center, but we only work during the daylight hours, from 6am to 7pm. From 7pm to …
Nov 30 2007
I am Curious (Red)
Today’s Holidailies prompt is: “It’s the first day of Holidailies, so introduce yourself.” Hi, there. Some of you may remember me from the previous year. I used to have a livejournal with the username ‘jetblack’ and I decided I would give this another try to see if I could make it all the way to …
Nov 27 2007
Holidailies 2007
For those of you who have been reading my blog for at least a year, you know that I participated in Holidailies last December. Holidailies is a month-long blogging version of NaNoWriMo, but instead of writing a novel, you have to blog once a day, every day of the month. I liked the concept of …
