The show was up Monday, but attendance was light. I had three or four professors bring their entire classes by my pre-thesis project for quick demonstrations and participation, but a bug was rampant through the code and the performance was not ideal. All morning long I was calling Rebecca desperately pleading for solutions, however none came until after we shut down and could debug the issue. (It was funny that the bug seemed to disappear when Rebecca showed up after lunch. She was the good luck charm.) New media work is always broken, they tell me. Zero1 festival kind of proved that -- the percent of functioning pieces was well below 50%.
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One of the parting gifts from my last company was some meetings with a career transition consultant at Lee Hecht Harrison. I started with the orientation meeting last week. Wow did I learn a lot. It was both enlightening and discouraging at the same time.
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We were busy all throughout the week. Rebecca hasn't slept much each night because she has stressed about finding work. [By the end of the week, I found stopping job hunting tasks/thoughts an hour or two before bed helps tons in being able to sleep. Perhaps there's good reason for the typical work schedule of the salaried employee. -bec] Rebecca has gone to many meetings with Lee Hect Harrison and reviewed her resume. Most of the meetings are, oddly enough, supposed to help people find their way around the company's website for job listings. I am still trying to put my faith in this company and what they say, but if they are catering to the lowest common denominator and Rebecca has only gotten more frustrated and worried about job hunting since participating in their seminars, I am beginning to doubt. I doubt the economy will rebound as well as people think. I doubt people have any idea how bad it really is. read more »
It was a busy week this week, but not a lot to report. I had several meetings: one with a "career transition counselor" and one with state unemployment folks but two different days. I don't mean to complain, but -- when the letter the state sent me said I had to come in promptly and that "late arrivals will not be accommodated" -- why did I have to wait an hour to be seen only to be told everyone was in a meeting and to please reschedule for another day? I ask you? All I can conclude is the maxim "there's no such thing as a free lunch" is what we're seeing here. 
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Paela says no a great deal. We didn't think we were saying 'no' to her all that much, but she has been having many more tantrums lately which we have tried to address. At the beginning of the week, we decided that a more appropriate way for her to ask for help [rather than breaking down into a screaming fit on the floor without warning] was to use the sign language word for help or please or to knock on doors she wants entrance to. read more »
