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February is a terrible month. It is the worst of all months. It might be cursed.

I am at work today, with a large bruise all up and down my right arm but otherwise unfractured and non-sprained. I am, however, either coming down with a cold or the victim of food poisoning, which would be a good trick since last night's dinner consisted of toast and Frosted Flakes.

In more cheering news, swordage linked me to an article about Groupon pulling its latest ads and apologising. Your mileage in re the quality of the apology may vary, but I do find it somewhat cheering. For days, Groupon's spokespeople have been saying "But we didn't mean to offend anyone!" which, hey, great you didn't deliberately set out to be assholes. Nobody seemed to be noticing that whether or not they meant to, they did, and now they have apparently realised it. So, well, it's a step, anyway.

The New York Times was supposed to release a new Bestsellers list this week: e-book bestsellers. Fucked if I can find it, though. I hate the New York Times for the most shallow of reasons (screw you, I'm not logging in to read your news) but today I am going to let myself be shallow.

ETA: Found by Kellyfaboo on Dreamwidth, for GREAT JUSTICE.

Because it's February, and February is a terrible place to spend twenty eight days.

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I forgot what a soul-crushing experience applying for jobs is. I mean I know it's horrible, I remember it being horrible, but the immediacy of the horrible is so much more vivid than the memory of it.

Uh, okay, before anyone panics: I haven't been fired.

My friend in HR tipped me off about a quasi-PR position in the company that she thought I should apply for, and slipped me the name of who to ask about it (the person doing the hiring knows me, because EVERYONE KNOWS ME, but it's not like we're friends or anything). Essentially, if I had the right quals and got the job I would be moving from generalist receptionist to junior Writer Of Reports, Manager Of People and Hard Thinker About Things. Apparently CG is either premonitionary or a lucky charm?

The job is scary on a number of levels: increased responsibility, occasional evening/weekend work, direct donor and client interface, lots of data analysis. Nothing I can't do, per se; I don't know the specifics of some of it, but I learn fast and have Wikipedia on my side. How hard can it be?

Sadly, what worries me is the time commitment, because frankly I like being paid for eight hours when really I do about three hours of work a day. I'm pretty sure it pays a lot more than the twenty bucks an hour I make now, though.

I wish you could audition new jobs. Like they could hire me for three months and bring in a temp to replace me at my desk, and then if I wanted to go back to being a receptionist I could. Because I know I like this job.

BossBoss told me he would cry if I left, because he's pretty positive they won't find anyone else who will put up with what I do for the pay I get, but I told him when the new receptionist gets scared he or she can just come downstairs to my new desk and I will give him or her a hug.

Mind you, the new job would have much more interesting blog fodder.

My god, look at my priorities.

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I think this is maybe my favourite origami to date. I just find it unutterably charming. A crane! In a heart!

It's not the most deftly folded, but the concept is clever and elegant, I think.

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Semagic, which is the posting client I use for blogging, has some strange limitations. It will only make posts under a certain size, a size which is well below the maximum that LJ/DW/etc can handle. It will also only let you edit up to a certain point; about 8k words. If you try to add anything more than the editing window can handle, it just won't let you do it.

My master fic list -- the list of fic I have written, no actual fic included -- has maxed out Semagic's editing capabilities. I can no longer edit the master list in Semagic. Which cracks me up, because not even half the stories actually have links right now.

Cracks me up, and kind of makes me want to weep.

Anyway, I thought I'd do a bit of tidying on the archive, so I've updated the Recently Posted file. These are the stories I've posted since December, just for archival purposes:

( White Collar, Merlin, Southland, Torchwood. )