  My diet's been sabotaged by the twin demons of WHITE PIZZA and BREYERS CREAMY CHOCOLATE. I'm working on pulling it back together here. Last night at work we had a good night. I had an office night, amazingly enough. But when I got there I got a call from the big boss, who wanted to know, could I stay late in the morning for a meeting in her office? Well, naturally that kind of thing freaks me out and makes me paranoid. I spent all night in varying degrees of worrying about it. It didn't help that it was first-day-back and I was going on just the barest minimums of sleep (like today: 3.5 hours).
Anyway, she was late coming to our meeting and I just about fell asleep in front of her office, but once she got there we had a really good talk discussing everything behind my wanting to transfer, and what the outlook is for getting that fixed, and might I want to stick around until the new manager comes in and see if that doesn't change things. Well, you know, I don't really have a plan right now about transferring, since the one place turned me down flat without even an interview and the other really hasn't got a position available. So my plan-and-contingency-plan is now no plan at all. So I guess I am going to be sticking around, at least for the time being, and I guess whether I want to or not I'm going to be seeing how things change when the new manager comes in.
I got a call from Meredith at American Mobile, who says that Duke has my application in their hands. I have a weird feeling I'm not going to be travelling after all. Not because they won't want me, but because we just have a lot to do here and I can't really be here and there at the same time. I do think I'll end up there before Scott does, but in a different way than we had originally planned with travelling. I had fleetingly entertained thoughts of going to Detroit for Rathayatra, but I don't think Scott will want me jumping on a plane to go there. I'm going to Charleston for a couple of days end of this month with Anne, and the plane tickets to Detroit are about $250.00.
That's probably money we should be saving at this point. Maybe I can go next year. Where I'd rather go is Toronto, but we'll see how it all works out. One other thing I mentioned was that I was willing to work weird hours and shifts. Specifically, 7PM to 3AM. I wonder if that'll ever come about. I think that'd be just slam bam perfect for me at this point. Only time will tell now what's going to happen with everything. There are some neighhbourhood kids running around in our yard today.
I feel like someone ought to tell them and their bare feet that our lawn is home to the third largest colony of fire ants on the planet, but on the other hand, if they want to run around in our yard badly enough, they'll find out eventually. urlLink 
