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Thursday, My Achey Breaky Heart, as well as other body parts It's amazing, how much stress can affect the rest of your body. I feel like I've gone ten rounds with Mike Tyson in a chewing mood, and yet I really did very little of physical consequence today, apart from get dressed up and go down to that local university for my interview. Which turned out not to be a interview, but a "profile session" wherein I took a writing, editing and spelling test, then sat there for 45 minutes before an HR representative met with me, checked my demographics, took some notes and said my application would be processed and sent over to the hiring departments next week, lovely to meet you, NEXT. *sigh* It is to make your head go boom boom boom. It also doesn't help that the Hoosiermobile is making funny noises and feels extremely jittery on the road. I'm getting her oil changed tomorrow and checking the tire pressure -- if that doesn't fix it, I'll have to see if my warranty is still in effect so that I can take it back to the dealer for an inspection. I mean, the car is only 5 months old and I haven't been grinding the gears or drag-racing -- it shouldn't be shuddering like a dog passing peach pits. At least Lyndon wound up calling me and making me laugh, which was lovely. Deus volent and the crick don't rise, he's coming over here for a switch cut around the end of the month, and he's going to propose to his manager that he fly out five days early so that he can spend them in Dallas and acclimatize. Considering that it's over a weekend and they owe him two days of flexitime as it is, quite apart from the fact that I haven't seen him since May, I don't think this is too much to ask. We'll just have to wait and see.
They're punishing us for Dubya, aren't they? And according to the news tonight, there's going to be a new round of layoffs at Radio Shack in Fort Worth, apparently due to Wall Street's lack of confidence in the company and demotion of their financial standing. Which just puts more unemployed support staff into the ever-increasing jobless pool in North Texas. The funny thing is, all these companies that have been laying off techs right, left and center are still making lots of money. They're just not making as much as they were before. I mean, it's not like the shareholders are being asked to sell their Beemers and cough up cash for the payroll -- but God forbid they might not make enough to buy little Jimbo that customized PT Cruiser for his tenth birthday. Better to lay off your support staff, who then can't buy as many consumer goods as before despite that huge $300 tax rebate, which hits companies in the pocketbook, so they lay off a few more people to make up for the shortfall, and so on, and so on. . . Lyndon said that after watching MSNBC's economic reports for the last couple of months, he could only come to the conclusion that various economic commentators are deliberately trying to talk the country into a recession. Me, I'd much rather let my paranoid consipracies run free and assume it's Corporate America sending Dubya a message by whacking Texas, just to remind him who's boss.
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