Kim’s Domain

Well, Chicago has a World Series title again. I guess that’s good. I admit, I did get a little swept up in all the World Series fever. But when I watched last night as the Astros fans just passively allowed - I forget the White Sox player’s name - to catch a foul ball that drifted several rows into the seats, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the Cubs getting robbed of a very important out a couple seasons ago. My boyfriend almost ended up having to sleep on the couch - wait, no, on the floor, since our futon is already taken up by a guest right now - when he began to make fun of the seriousness of that event. Yes, it’s true, we could have come back from it and we shouldn’t have let a little thing like a lost out throw us, but it’s the goat, dammit. We’re cursed, and that guy who couldn’t keep his hands to himself just reminded the team and all us fans of that fact. And thus the goat thwarted us again. This, I believe!

Well, maybe this World Series win will be good for the Cubs. Maybe the Tribune Company will be so shamed that our little-thought-of neighbor to the south went the distance and start making some changes in the team. That is, if they can stop worrying about roof-top seating and expanding the bleachers and adding more parking to an already car-congested area to think about team.

But I digress. Go White Sox, yay Chicago, Chicago finally has a winning team.

And now about me!

When we last left our heroine, she was unsure of her employment situation at her temp day job. Well, I am still temping at the same company, and they have moved me to a different department. So less interesting work, more counting brochures and stuffing envelopes. But I still have a job so I’m not going to complain. And I’m really not going to complain because they gave me half of this week off so I could prepare for tech, and I still have a job to go back to on Monday. And can I say I am so happy to almost be in tech. We had an 8-week rehearsal process. 8 weeks! Going into tech this weekend means that we are so close to getting this show open and I’m so close to having a life again!!!

So, this weird thing is happening with my day job situation. My temp agency is basically dissolving at the end of the month, but I have this full time, regular temp gig I want to keep at least through mid-January. So at the end of the month I’m basically a free agent, and my supervisor at work has expressed interest in hiring me on an hourly basis. So I would actually be on the company payroll, but hourly, not salary.

This is so cool.

The company I temp for is called GFOA, a non-profit company that does management and financial consulting for cities, counties, school boards, utility boards, etc. It’s celebrating it’s 100th anniversary next year. And it actually does really important work, which has more meaning to me now because of watching New Orleans and towns in Mississippi scrambling to figure out how to pay to rebuild their cities (especially since the federal government can’t get their act together to bail them out, but that’s another gripe for another day). The New Orleans mayor just announced today that the city has to lay off half of its employees! Granted, it’s hard to plan for your city getting completely devastated, but that’s one of the things GFOA does is help organizations do that kind of planning. So yeah, I’m not working for a corporation I couldn’t care less about, I actually really like where I work. The people are nice, too.

I was leery at the idea of signing on to work for a company, as in actually have a day job. I didn’t want to get sucked into doing something that is not what I do. But because they’re willing to hire me on hourly, it feels less like getting sucked into something. And they know that I would have to disappear for weeks at a time because of my other work, and they’re willing to work around it. And after working there for 4 weeks, I can see they need the extra help. Recently, I’ve been feeling like I’m doing the work of 2 people, or at least 1 and a half.

So, I guess we’ll see what happens…

Well, for those of you who don’t know (which may not be many) I have a job!  In fact, I have two of them!  And now I’m so busy I hardly have time to post on my blog.  Sad.  But perhaps soon there will postings about my wacky adventures working for Piven Theatre.  Or my thought’s about all the madness going on in the this country right now (like there ever isn’t madness these days).  But right now, my lunch break is almost over and it’s back to the grind!