This I believe...

That Aunt Sue & Co did a GREAT job on the books this year!! And the magnets are especially amazing. So a big thanks from South Carolina!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Everyone! Much love to all!

Finished!

Only one day of school left! I finish my comprehensive finals in the morning and graduate tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow the official end of my educational hell: 5am wakeup followed by an 80 mile drive, a 9 hour day, another 80 mile drive and a night's worth of homework! I am thinking that maybe tomorrow night I am going to get schnockered! Woohoo!!!

Christmas Mush Brain

My brain has turned to absolute mush. I have lost the ability to focus on work. It's not that I don't still HAVE work - quite the contrary, this week is so busy because no one is working next week so everyone is trying to get stuff done this week. But am I working? Well technically ... but at glacial speeds. If this goes on much longer I'll actually be going in reverse. It's bad - yesterday I woke up and thought, well at least it's Friday today. It was Monday.

And now inevitably it's 4-freaking oclock and I haven't gotten anything accomplished for today and I'm going to try and squeeze a days worth of work into two hours or so.

http://www.creators.com/comics/15/13372.html

Elf Yourself!

Courtesy of Kristy...

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1363758689

new job

So, I applied for a possible new job at a company making plagiocephaly helmets for infants. I kind of wanted to see if there might be a better job for me out there. This was the most intensive interview process I have EVER been through. Phone interview, then 5 hour in person interview - complete with observations, followed by - and I am not kidding here - what felt like the GRE test. It was a 1.5 hour test, timed sections on logic/analytical thought, verbal reasoning, mathematical reasoning, and visual processing skills, followed by a full personality test.

It was weird. I can't remember the last time I had to fill analogies (____ is to cake as boil is to _____) (for those of you playing along at home, I am pretty sure the multiple choice answer was: bake, spaghetti - I am not making this up) or to reason out the next number in a sequence of 8. ( 3,5,2,4,8,10,7,14,?) (the answer there is more complicated... can anyone get it - it is 28.) Wow, all that for a job I am not really sure I want. How crazy is that???

So, now I am tired and my head REALLY hurts. Poor Bucky, I kept shouting out "What the heck???" During this test and he kept interrupting what he was doing to come in and make sure my head hadn't exploded. I think it upset the doggies too.