Friday 5 (x3)

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What color is your parachute? (June 20)

1. Which job on a film crew would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

None of the jobs sounds like anything much I'd like to do, but the closest are in the post-production areas or something like negative cutter or compositor.     

2. Which job on a hotel staff would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for? 

I wouldn't mind working the front desk, but I would absolutely not do well with asshole guests. Everything else sounds like hell on earth.

3. Which job in a hospital would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

  Probably pharmacist or some sort of tech.

4. Which job on a cruise ship would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for? 

I don't see a single thing. Maybe purser. I would NOT want to deal with members of the public on one of these and I don't have any interest in programming.

5. Which job on a fashion magazine would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

Sub-editor. Otherwise, I'd be drunk and angry all the time. Most of these jobs sound simply awful.

You vs You  (June 27)

1. How is professional you different from home you?

I'm trying like hell, and succeeding more often but not often enough, to keep my mouth shut and keep conversations very work-based and unpersonal. I work with lots of Type-A go-getters who are passionate about their jobs--as am I--so we have specific ideas about what makes the place work. I have reached the point that I don't need to "win" any of the arguments about this. At home, I'm manic and emotional and lazy.

2. How is grown-up you different from teen you?

I'm far less sure that I'm right about everything and everyone else. I'm just as clumsy, but heal more slowly now and generally break easier. And I'm over 100 pounds heavier.

3. How is online you different from IRL you?

I suspect that I sound nasty and bitchy when I'm online because it's my venting space. IRL I'm pretty midwestern, so nice and friendly and unlikely to growl at people.

4. How is morning you different from evening you?

I'm not sure they are. If I'm working, I'm generally cleaner (morning shower) in the a.m. and probably brain-dead in the evening.

5. How is drinking you different from sober you? 

I become way more chattier and giggly when I drink. And I have to pee more. And then I fall asleep.

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛  (July 4)

1. What connections did you make this week?

At work, I did some work with correcting some errors in the catalog and general background maintenance. At home... I tried not slug my daughter who has spent her visit home for the weekend spiraling internally (and verbally) about her work situation. I'm so fucking tired of hearing about it.

2. How would you do in a spelling bee for adults where the other contestants are your average people at the bookstore?

 I'd do great. (What bookstore?)

3. When did you most recently keep a cross word to yourself?

See above re daughter & job. And pretty much every conversation with my boss in the past...oh...year.

4. What word’ll best describe your expectations for the coming weekend?

Hmm, well, since it's Saturday evening...lol  There were/are, as expected, too many fireworks from nearby asshats, and tomorrow and Monday I need to do a bunch of phone calls, laundry, and bill-paying.

5. If you could read the strands of your own DNA, what would you most like to know?

What medical conditions are going to do me in? What do I need to focus on? It seems like everything is cratering, but I also know that's just aging, not actual death.