Today

[serene]

I know I should be less disappointed in losing a potential part-time gig than I was at being told I wasn't going to get hired for the Best Temp Job Ever, but it still made me cry.

Hot day at work (no air conditioning -- it's not broken, there just isn't any), and that disappointment kind of pushed me over the weepy edge. I'm okay, though. Bought us dinner at Cafe Colucci (good Ethiopian food and a nice walk to get there and back), went to Whole Foods and bought cheap-and-delicious truffles and some yummy spicy barbecue kettle chips, came home and watched the South Park movie, then had really yummy sex, made more yummy by the fact that I'm off the Pill right now, and I have some sensations back that were being dulled, I presume, by the Pill. I may never go back on it ever again. (I can afford not to if my period keeps self-regulating, and for the moment it appears to be doing so. We can use other birth control, and the partner it's an issue with has agreed to look into having a vasectomy.)

I probably shouldn't have drunk that Coke during the movie, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.

Oh, and I apparently will have a different job in the department as soon as I get back from Tokyo, so all is not lost. It's even sort of in my field (scanning and proofing documents). It will obviate the whole jobhunt thing, and if you know me at all, you know jobhunting is my very least favorite thing to do, even more loathsome than dental work or -- well, something really unpleasant.

Almost forgot, too, that I had a very nice, subdued evening with golden_c_turtle last night. She's trying to get me a girlfriend. Speed-dating is not my bag. Oh, and she bosses me around, but I just tell her to shut up. We're perfect for each other.

Comments

[sagittaria.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, the pill is EVIL. For me, anyway.

I'm sorry the job thing didn't work out the way you hoped, but glad you will have a job when you return.

[cassidyrose.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the job. I hope the alternative works out well for you.

And, ugh, birth control. Only a few more weeks and I need to think about that again. I'm not a huge fan of the pill either, but I was on it for ten years to suppress nasty ovarian cysts and it helped immensely.

[jb98.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about the job, hope the one you have upon your return from Japan is even better.

*hugz*

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

Oh, hon.

*hugs*

*hugs*

[tracytreefrog.livejournal.com]

I so agree the pill is a bad thing for me. I was on it for only two months too may years ago to think of and I was in pain the whole time. It did it's job thankfully but never again! The next time it happened I was put on something else. Still gave me some wick-id mood swings but no pain. Been o.k. since I went off it too YAY!
Hope the new job goes well when you get back nice knowing you have it at least.
No A/C ouch! well at least you aren't in the valley where we will be a whopping 104 I think today supposed to get up to 110 by this weekend! I so don't want to see my PG&E this coming month!

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

sorry to hear about the job :( *hug*

[pure-agnostic.livejournal.com]

Sorry the job thing didn't work out. I hope you find something more worth your time.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Long time, no see. Hope post-vacation life has been treating y'all well. Would love to see if you and the munchkin and I can get together some time after I get back from Japan.

[pure-agnostic.livejournal.com]

Yes, life has been well. Just very busy! Yes, I would like to get together for dinner and chat about Japan after you return. How soon do you leave?

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

We meet up in San Francisco August 1st and fly out the next day. Back on the 17th or 18th, I keep forgetting. Very exciting stuff.

[loracs.livejournal.com]

Wow, so soon! When you said Aug. it sounded so far away. So sorry the "temp job turning full" didn't work out, but it's great that you don't have to come back to the wicked job hunting process.

[troublesjournal.livejournal.com]

I agree, the Pill is awful. It's been many years (ummm...11) since I was on hormonal birth control of any kind. I've been really pleased with using fertility awareness...the only two oopses I've had have been times when I simply didn't follow the very simple rules, and that's obviously not the fault of the method! (Like blaming the Pill itself for forgetting to take it, or blaming condoms when you never got around to putting it on or when you didn't use it properly.)

Regular cycles aren't really necessary for fertility awareness, either.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

The pill was actually a miracle for me. I had had my period every day for three years, was severely anemic, and I cried with relief when they found a pill that would make my period only come once a month like it's supposed to.

I'll give fertility awareness some thought and research. Thanks.