Wednesday, January 30, 2008

How 'Bout You?

...Email chain with my colleague.... My bullets are in green.

I’d rather be:
  • Sleeping
  • Napping
  • Trying on shoes
  • Playing tetris
  • Cleaning out my desk
  • Drinking alcohol
  • Drinking coffee with caffeine in it
  • Smokin’ doobies (even though I don't do that)
  • Staring into outerspace
  • Getting a pedicure
  • Drinking a smoothie
  • Eating a hotdog
  • Sitting on a plane, bound for somewhere warm
  • Wearing flannel jammies
  • Watching TV
  • Eating pizza
  • Travelling anywhere but here
  • Sitting in front of the fireplace with my favourite book
  • Hanging out with my puppydog
  • Cooking something wonderful while drinking a glass of red wine.
  • Drinking the rest of your bottle of red wine
  • Learning to play my piano
  • Winning the lottery
  • Daydreaming (oh, wait, I already am!)
  • Watching cartoons
  • Eating one of the Skinny Cow fudgesicles in my freezer
  • Driving a mini cooper out in the country
  • Sitting in a hot tub (wine mandatory here too)
  • Laying on the beach
  • Buying a new couch for my basement
  • Winning the lottery. twice.
  • Driving home. Enjoying the dinner that my guy makes for me tonight, but unfortunately he can’t cook so that will never happen but I can dream can’t I? aaaaaaah yes that’s what I’m doing too.
  • Riding shotgun in your mini (I’m a great navigator)
  • Dancing to some Prince
  • Not working
  • Writing about something other than insurance
  • Learning new photoshop skills
  • Going back in time to the 1940s so I can steal some awesome clothes and purses
  • Daphne navigating while I drive my mini
  • Dancing to Madonna
  • Working even less than Daphne
  • Not writing about anything at all ever.
  • Learning some new photoshop skills
  • Going back in time before Job2. Anytime is fine.
  • Learning how to cook delicious Indian food
  • Better still, eating my mother-in-law’s delicious Indian food
  • Sitting on my front porch way in the future, reminiscing about that sweet corner office while avoiding mention of the job entirely
  • Watching Audrey Hepburn movies
  • Pursuing my longtime dream of being a broadway star
  • Eating fruit loops
  • Enjoying my house without my mother in it.
  • Eating Daphne's delicious Indian food.
  • Baking more, eating what I bake and not gaining weight
  • Wishing for a snowstorm so bad, I can’t come to work until Spring
  • Eating more rice krispie squares
  • Enjoying wine. Have I said that enough? I don’t think so.
  • Downloading every application on Facebook until my profile crashes.
  • Redecorating my colleague's home with doilies and figurines while she’s sleeping – and blaming it on her man, just for fun
  • Figuring out how many licks it takes to get to the centre of the toostie pop
  • Watching re-runs of 80s sitcoms
  • Eating brie on baguette (coupled with a glass of wine, of course)
  • Buying more shoes
  • Packing my mom’s junk
  • Throwing out knicknacks from knickknack hell
  • Eating lardballs and never having to say I’m sorry.
  • Losing it like the co-pilot on the Air Canada flight over Ireland
  • Travelling to Ireland, but not on Air Canada
  • Daydreaming about witty things to add to this list
  • Never having writer’s block while trying to write something witty for this list of things I’d rather be doing.
  • To be able to dictate this list and not actually write it myself.

Thursday, January 10, 2008

A new opportunity?

Boss #1 emailed me this morning...


Happy new year and I hope you are doing well.
I will be trying to arrange something for the Job1’ers in early February.
A communications/pr position has become available in our HR department and the last time we talked you were not that interested in your current position. I am sending you the job description – it is full time but if you are still interested in contract they may be willing to go that way. Its interesting times for this position as our parent company is merging with a big media company and so the communications and pr may be very interesting.
If you're not interested but know someone who might, feel free to pass this along.
Boss1


Needless to say, my curiosity is piqued. Boss1 has raved about the Publisher since she started there, on the same day I started at the Insurance Nightmare. She's acutally already recruited a few others from Job1, and they all love it there. So ya, I'll be submitting my resume.