Today I’m work­ing on my Mis­sion State­ment. Two years ago I had A Plan to go back to school and get my engi­neer­ing degree. I was gonna work for NASA! Or even bet­ter, Richard Bran­son. What­ever. Don’t get me wrong, I was deadly seri­ous about it, despite my own appre­hen­sions. I really felt like this […]

The evil hor­ri­ble soul-sucking job is gone. Not really, some other poor schmuck got suck­ered into it, but he only lasted two weeks, which gave me quite a bit of val­i­da­tion.  I helped train him, so I know that he was no LadyG­lut­ter, but he also said it wasn’t an accept­able work envi­ron­ment for him, […]

Seri­ously — those peo­ple who man­age to “have it all”? The kids and the career and the gym and the social life? How do you do it? When do you sleep? A week into this whole two full time jobs deal, and I’m exhausted and out of my mind. And the apart­ment (that we’re about […]

That’s what life feels like right now. I’m bust­ing my hump just to stay “almost” where I’m not quite good enough. In the last year, I’ve aban­doned dreams, lost hopes, and sur­vived. I’m not want­ing to write on the blog any­more because I’ve bared my soul to the world on here, and I don’t have […]