Category Archives: Life at Work

The Week in Cancer – Graceful Growth

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Have you ever observed the rising moon with such a steady gaze that you’ve actually seen it move? Have you ever sat yourself down in front of a rose bud during the hour it exploded into full bloom? Those experiences have resemblances to a slow-motion burst of graceful growth that’s unfolding in your own sphere. I hope you have the patience to give it your full attention, because that way it’s more likely to express its potential completely. To enhance your chances of nurturing the subtle magic, remember and ruminate on the images your nightly dreams give you.

I just don’t know what it is about Rob Brezsny but he does the best horoscopes for me.  Maybe it’s because he’s a cancer too but dang, every week, spot on.  And funny and brilliant and so much more interesting than most other horoscope writers.

D and I are doing much personal discovery of each other in many ways.  Things are drawing out slowly, deliciously, passionately, focussedly (so what, I can make up words if I want to), with interest, abandon, affection, attention, and well, things are just darned good right now.  I’m observing him, myself, and life is good.

Plus, today I get my birthday present from my parents. A mini fridge for my haven home.  Work doesn’t kill me, even the worst days are so easy compared to what I’m used to.

Life is good, very, very good.

As you were…

Things are going well

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Love the new job. Love being a manager. Love it love it love it. I had a thought today. That the string of shitty bosses I’ve had over the years has taught me what not to do because I know how it feels to be treated badly, with hostility, how it feels to be told I’m incompetent, what it’s like to hate coming in, even getting out of bed, because you can’t bear to face that horror one more day.

I’m loving being a great boss. I’m loving being able to be kind and understanding to my new staff person, who’s been having a hard time of it since her friend and last boss left. I’m just thrilled she is telling everyone how much she wanted me to be her new boss and how glad she is that I’m there. I am making the faculty very happy, I’m making things better. It is an amazing feeling. The alarm goes off and I don’t dread going in to work. I have all kinds of ideas to make things run more smoothly thanks to the department peeps bringing me their wish lists. Very exciting. So this is what it feels like to have a job that seems tailor made for you.

Who knew!

First Day On The New Job

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It went well, I’m in a good safe sane place.  The people are all super nice.  Now that doesn’t mean that as researching faculty they don’t have their moments of crankypants, but they are fundamentally nice.  I can take occasional grumpous crap but not just plain nasty personalities.  I’m in a good place.  The work is going to be a breeze for me.

The one interesting thing I didn’t consider is that while I still work at the university I also work for the medical center attached and they are kind of a their own little world within the university’s own little world.  For the first time in 20 years I’m dealing with a dress code, no blue jeans of any kind and no open shoes.  Peep toes are okay but no sandals and the like even if they are fancy and black and professional.  You can wear the most jackassed hot pink with green daisy jeans but under no circumstances can they be blue.  Evidently a new CEO came in and he’s from the East Coast so no more western slacker shit there.

Thank god for thrift stores.  I found a pair of nice fancy type denim trousers (they are not jeans and it is the dark spandex denim that never fades) and some black pants and a pair of quite awesome leather clogs for wearing in the summer that I can leave there. And hey while I was there I got a total steal on a silk velvet jacket with red silk lining and these floopy red silk sleeves that extend past the velvet cuff .  The jacket is down to my ankles. It is GORGEOUS. Okay fine.  It’s a silk dressing gown.  But with a couple of easy alterations it is a coat, seriously easy stuff.  And the tie makes a very nice scarf.  Can’t wait to wear it out.  I also found a black silk velvet shawl with long fringe that I almost put back because you know, where am I going to wear a formal shawl, and then this voice in my head says, “Hey! that would look mighty fine on my altar there Missy.”  Hekate? She gets what she wants.  It’s nice to have a paycheck I can count on again.  All for under $50.  That’s my kind of store.

The other thing is all the tests.  Two TB antibody tests in my first two weeks and then once a year.  If I can’t prove immunization for a bunch of stuff, blood tests to determine if I got them when I was young.  Luckily as soon as my insurance kicks in I can prove a lot of it as I’ll have online access to my records.  But that Hepatitis B I got through being a bad girl in LA, well thank goodness I know I’m not a carrier.  But no immunization on that one (they pay for it all), too late for me.  I might qualify for the shingles vaccine. I think that the hospital gets a lot of employees from other countries where certain immunizations just were not standard.  But it makes one pause to realize, that yeah, you’re now working in a hospital (my department is even responsible for the autopsies) and there are communicable diseases here.  There is hand sanitizer everywhere and I do mean Everywhere.

Miss Mitty greeted me at the door, she’s going to miss me while I’m gone, she’s had me by her side for a long time.  It’s nice to be missed and nice to be home.

Gonna wash my new thrift store finds and crash like a big dog.

Just an Update

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Okay, that was brief.

Here’s the truth.  I’ve been stressed beyond belief.  Unemployment turned me down, three appeals.  I’ve been interviewing for a position at my old company and it’s a good one.

And I got a job.  They hired me yesterday then I had to jump some hoops, they wanted to talk to the woman who fired me and I refused.  So 24 more hours of really edgy stress.  I got the job anyway! They love me!  I start June 1st.  I’m predicting that since it’s full time that I’m going to be busy and a bit tired for awhile.  One reason I’ve been a bit absent and will continue to be so.

In my second interview I sat down at the conference table in front of 2 of the 6 people who were going to interview me and my knee hit the emergency latch and the table split in two and folded in half.  Guess they know how I handle very unexpected and sudden stress.  When asked how I handle competing priorities I told them that I warp time.  One lady shot out her hand and said “You’re Hired.”    It was 8 days before the final FINAL offer was made but I’m just ecstatic.  These folks are so very nice, it can be a home I’m thinking.  My cubicle walls (3 real walls at least, not some pod) are eggplant purple and there is a bit of privacy there.  I knew it was the right place.  I also discovered that one of my BTW mates works there, also a good sign, he’s been there a long time.

The other thing happening is that I’ve been in the budding first weeks of beginning a relationship with someone.  It’s amping up and things are getting intense interesting after about 6-7 weeks of just getting to know each other.  We have a lot in common, a 30 year history of mutual friends and music interests and we think very much alike, very similar minds.  So many things in common I really can’t list them here.  He’s a doll really and we both have stelliums in our natal charts, his scorpio and mine leo.  My Cancer sun makes the scorpio thing look like a good idea and his other planets balance him, he’s a kind and playful scorpio.  We both have the same rising sign.  My intuition says that this is the guy that my ex and Steve sent me.  A rockin’ chicken man.  And guess what?  We have never met.  We meet Friday.  Another reason I’ve been a bit absent and will continue to be so if all goes well.

At any rate there is a lot of exciting change going on.  Boy Howdy, it’s pouring over here.  I can finally breathe again.

I had to share that fabulous news.

So I’ll be around, don’t give up on my blog, I’ll just be a bit sporadic as I adjust to all the new and wonderful change that is going on.  The Honey Years are finally getting to the sweetness.  The bee spit months appear to be well on their way out.