office politicking

EDIT: confirmed. i have another 2 weeks to a month here.

people at my workplace are sometimes awfully silly.
they won't hire me because i'm nota 3m-er and they have to hire someone who got laid off somewhere else....but i'm filling in for A so that she can move to M's position because M got a new position elsewhere.
but the people here love me and want me hired. my new supervisor loves me - she tried to get me into her group when i was originally brought in, but my experience with electronics gave the austin team dibs on me. the EDI people love me. the vendormaster group loves me - and wants me hired because i actually understand how their side of the business works and i don't make their lives harder. my boss's boss took me aside and thanked me for staying....and none of it equals a continued paycheck.

A also took a couple of days off before the transition.
then she e-mailed in to say she'll be out til nov.3rd. not asking. telling. and my supervisor is covering her new position while she's out. this lasts longer than my last day (the 17th). so i went to D(my supervisor) and told her i'd be willing to move to cover for the position so she didn't have to...and she looked really relieved, but said she's actually hoping to keep me where i am longer and was hoping i'd be willing. they are still interviewing for the position. they haven't found anyone who suits. D thinks it will be the end of october at the earliest and more likely the middle of november....naturally i said yes...but that i will be out the 31st and let them know if i get a job in the meantime. so i should find out this week if my repreive has been extended.

neil gaiman

so i went to go see neil gaiman's graveyard book tour last night with corrin and darla. it was held at a church instead of a bookstore and i think it really added a lot to the atmosphere, even though the acustics were a bit of a problem.
neil read from his book and that was pretty neat. and we got to see film footage for the new movie being made of coraline.
and he says he's working on a film script for anansi boys.
and he read blueberry girl to us - a picture book he wrote for tori amos's daughter.

but the best part of the evening was the Q&A.
( these are the answers i remember- both are paraphrased. )

also i got a signed copy of the graveyard book.

awesome halloween meme

Halloween Meme

aryaluna dresses up as journeyintoday

ashoe runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by clare_dragonfly, wielding a sharpened steak (rare)

clare_dragonfly puts fake eyeballs in your socks

durlindana devours the entire neighbourhood's cutlery

journeyintoday swoops on spiralshell and drains their Wings Greatest Hits

keisolo TPs ashoe

pheonix930 creates an unholy monstrosity from xerotic, journeyintoday and rumpleteazaer

pixiecup haunts your candy

rumpleteazaer shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and dip

sidhedevil TPs your pumpkin

spiralshell carves wanderingbastet's effigy in the medium of brains

vale797 gives you a toothbrush

wanderingbastet eats xerotic's spicy, spicy brains.

xerotic puts real eyeballs in your gerbils

zankoku_zen buries vale797 at the crossroads with a Wings album through their heart

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