On safari again!
How much fun was that. Saw Jarred .. he was his usual self. Mikey was a hoot. Worked Jarred over like a cheap nickel. Jarred apparently has a new cell phone - he gave me the number (which Mikey immediately tried, and it didn't seem to work) and I watched Jarred give his number to at least four other people at the bar in quick succession.
Uh, yeah. Sure.
Anyway, had a pretty good day. Nicole signed me up for membership with CPH, and I'm working on organizing the 21st Century version of the French Revolution there come November.
Picked out the color schemes with Guy for Fabulair - he had some AWESOME ideas for the elements of the website. Talked to Timmy from Thos. Cook airlines today; I told him he was going to be in charge of "in-flight" as VP of In Flight Fabulousness. I also realized I need to write to RuPaul and ask his permission to use his name as the "trainer" for the flight attendants.
I'm very excited about that project.
Other than that, had the boy from Brazil ask me again about a visa for him. Took a big nap, and worked with one of my LSAT students from last September - he's making good progress. The Mormon hasn't been heard from all day.
DJHJD
Saturday, July 10, 2004
Friday, July 09, 2004
Ah, it's Divo the SCREWED again. Bleh. This morning, I had an email from the woman that I've taught with for 14 years; she got me in at UH-CL, where I've been a contract instructor for six years. She withdrew from our contract gig at UH-CL about two years ago, because she got a job with Rice U, and didn't want to make the drive down there anymore. At that time, I offered to teach her four modules. I've taught them before, I'm qualified to do it, and the students uniformly love me. My student reviews are TOP NOTCH. Always have been. And, the woman that they hired to replace my friend (with three years' experience) is getting paid 15% more than I am. I've never had nor asked for an increase. So, I have to address this issue soon, and ask for a hefty increase.
Looks like the weekend will be a good one, anyway. The Mormon is frisky, again, and I've slapped him down pretty hard.
Just took the most HILLARIOUS quiz on the liquidgeneration.com website. Check it out! My movie villain character is Jack Torrance from "The Shining."
Looks like the weekend will be a good one, anyway. The Mormon is frisky, again, and I've slapped him down pretty hard.
Just took the most HILLARIOUS quiz on the liquidgeneration.com website. Check it out! My movie villain character is Jack Torrance from "The Shining."
Thursday, July 08, 2004
The BEST thing! After six years of trying, I was FINALLY able to register fabulair.com today! I've been wanting to make a creative, functional, "paper" airline website for years - back in 1998, I got an email from my employer (Big Fag) and it was a scream. I expanded on it, turned it into something .. and, the web domain was taken.
I have had a placeholder website for years - http://www.geocities.com/paxton006/FABULAIR.htm
I'm going to be working on this very soon - it's going to ROCK. I found out today that my geocities webpage is #1 on yahoo for AIRLINES! It's #1 on yahoo for Fabulair, and Google pulls it up, too. 708 hits since I put it up, 53 in November, 2003.
Anyway, off to do some more reading of "The Body of Jonah Boyd." It just turned for the better.
I have had a placeholder website for years - http://www.geocities.com/paxton006/FABULAIR.htm
I'm going to be working on this very soon - it's going to ROCK. I found out today that my geocities webpage is #1 on yahoo for AIRLINES! It's #1 on yahoo for Fabulair, and Google pulls it up, too. 708 hits since I put it up, 53 in November, 2003.
Anyway, off to do some more reading of "The Body of Jonah Boyd." It just turned for the better.
Ah, a Thursday - the day before Friday, and the day before the weekend. I am to hear from Richard in a short while about whether I can expect to get paid this week - and how much, and I was just told by Rick that the hours here are 8 to 5. Uh-huh.
And, I still am scrambling to figure out how to pay rent and utilities - and then, there's the car payment due in just over a week. AND ..
So, this is starting to irritate me. Why did I think I could work for/with this guy?
Ugh.
Nicole called last night - a number of people at CPH are lining up to create an insurgent backlash against the "powers that be" there - she asked if I wanted to play. YOU BET! How fun is THAT?
I had a dream last night (which reminds me, I should write to Chris about it) that somehow, an unpubished script/score from a very famous author (actually, it was a 400 year old British author, I think, but who cares?) that we put on at CPH as a world premiere. We had spruced up the theater, replaced the carpeting and the seats, everything that Nicole, Nancy and I ever talked about. We had a full house, and ran it for MONTHS. It was cool, this dream.
I walked out on stage for a curtain speech, and it was like "I'm baack!"
Rick is meeting with the guy that we're hiring to replace the other Nicole.
Lunch with Jeffrey today.
Mikey wants to meet earlier tonight to work out, which could be good for me, since I have to work on the tax returns that are waiting for me. I have to extend my friend Scooter, and go up to Austin to pick up his tax work, and get started on THAT. (sighs)
After the weekend, Guy is going to work with Mikey and me to develop a work-out plan and an eating plan for the next two months. He used to be heavier than I ever have been, and he's down to about 210, but very beefy, with big arms and chest - I'm excited about that!
Okay, back to working on the business plan.
And, I still am scrambling to figure out how to pay rent and utilities - and then, there's the car payment due in just over a week. AND ..
So, this is starting to irritate me. Why did I think I could work for/with this guy?
Ugh.
Nicole called last night - a number of people at CPH are lining up to create an insurgent backlash against the "powers that be" there - she asked if I wanted to play. YOU BET! How fun is THAT?
I had a dream last night (which reminds me, I should write to Chris about it) that somehow, an unpubished script/score from a very famous author (actually, it was a 400 year old British author, I think, but who cares?) that we put on at CPH as a world premiere. We had spruced up the theater, replaced the carpeting and the seats, everything that Nicole, Nancy and I ever talked about. We had a full house, and ran it for MONTHS. It was cool, this dream.
I walked out on stage for a curtain speech, and it was like "I'm baack!"
Rick is meeting with the guy that we're hiring to replace the other Nicole.
Lunch with Jeffrey today.
Mikey wants to meet earlier tonight to work out, which could be good for me, since I have to work on the tax returns that are waiting for me. I have to extend my friend Scooter, and go up to Austin to pick up his tax work, and get started on THAT. (sighs)
After the weekend, Guy is going to work with Mikey and me to develop a work-out plan and an eating plan for the next two months. He used to be heavier than I ever have been, and he's down to about 210, but very beefy, with big arms and chest - I'm excited about that!
Okay, back to working on the business plan.
Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Another day with rain in the forecast.
Lance and I are about to run out for Thai buffet - hopefully, they'll have tapioca today - then, back to work on the business plan, then home to work out with Mikey, Guy is coming over for Bad Movie Night, and I have to work on this loan application for MJV's tax scofflaw client. MJV is already trying to think of how he can keep ALL of the money on the deal - I know how he thinks after all these years.
Well, my next talk in church is "The Inevitability of NOW" - focusing on the impossibility of actually being in the past or the future; from a physics standpoint, we can only be where we are right now. So, I'm back in the swirl, but this time, probably for different reasons.
Lance and I are about to run out for Thai buffet - hopefully, they'll have tapioca today - then, back to work on the business plan, then home to work out with Mikey, Guy is coming over for Bad Movie Night, and I have to work on this loan application for MJV's tax scofflaw client. MJV is already trying to think of how he can keep ALL of the money on the deal - I know how he thinks after all these years.
Well, my next talk in church is "The Inevitability of NOW" - focusing on the impossibility of actually being in the past or the future; from a physics standpoint, we can only be where we are right now. So, I'm back in the swirl, but this time, probably for different reasons.
Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Lovely. I find out last night that my new employer association can't pay me the promised monthly sum, and also, the one I work with every day is sulking in my general direction because I wasn't here this morning at 8:30. You see, HE was late (nearly the identical amount of time I was) and so he was expecting me to be here to "cover" things.
I had asked for a partial check for this morning, and Richard said he'd send it with Rick, who is now (I assume) withholding it as a sign of his displeasure.
I have a new tax client to meet at the apartment at 12:30, hopefully he'll show up.
We're supposed to have some word on whether we have our sales presentation tomorrow (the first one - the one we've been waiting on for weeks) but, that information has not yet come through. Frankly, if I have to make a living on the side from home, I don't know why I should bother coming in here and giving my time away.
Rick has previously told me that he feels I should have "something at risk" for my participation in this business; of course, he lives rent-free, expense-free, grocery-free, medical-free and everything else free on Richard's back - he has NOTHING at risk - I have to generate everything for myself each month "on God's good humor" as I put it.
(insert comment about self-righteous, priviledged Republicans here)
I had asked for a partial check for this morning, and Richard said he'd send it with Rick, who is now (I assume) withholding it as a sign of his displeasure.
I have a new tax client to meet at the apartment at 12:30, hopefully he'll show up.
We're supposed to have some word on whether we have our sales presentation tomorrow (the first one - the one we've been waiting on for weeks) but, that information has not yet come through. Frankly, if I have to make a living on the side from home, I don't know why I should bother coming in here and giving my time away.
Rick has previously told me that he feels I should have "something at risk" for my participation in this business; of course, he lives rent-free, expense-free, grocery-free, medical-free and everything else free on Richard's back - he has NOTHING at risk - I have to generate everything for myself each month "on God's good humor" as I put it.
(insert comment about self-righteous, priviledged Republicans here)
Sunday, July 04, 2004
Well!
Independence Day - and I was BRILLIANT in church this morning! I had my epiphany about 11:00 last night while walking the dogs - everything I was experiencing was about my "sentence" (the Landmark description for the self-definition that one lives ones truth out of.) I was experiencing a lot of swirl, but I just wasn't getting it until Friday and Saturday, when I had all that STUFF going on with getting paid, and people showing up, etc.
I didn't do but the roughest of outlines on what I had to say, pulled about six quotes together from A Course in Miracles, the bible, the Science of Mind and Troward's essays.
Got to church about 9:30 - the Lutherans across the street had taken over the ENTIRE parking lot. Parked around the corner, was the first and only one there until about 10:00, by which time I had set everything up. We only had six today; but, I was BRILLIANT. I had EVERYONE talking, asking questions, posing situations, giving examples. It was GREAT. Afterward, Rosita (one of the other board members) said that she was so enjoying the little environment that we have created that she hated missing a Sunday! She loves the conversation, and what we're working on!
After church, drove home, changed, walked the mutts, and drove out to Mikey's to have lunch (yum!) and see Spiderman 2. That was fun. Then, a quick visit to Jarred (who was swamped - the only bartender working) and then to R&R's for dinner and QAF, which was very very good. After that, I scrubbed Ruby down at a coin-op car wash, drove home, wiped down the car, walked the dogs and now .. hopefully, I can get some sleep!
Tomorrow, I've decided to focus on getting some of the integrity back - waxing the car, grooming the dogs, working on some document projects .. that will feel just great.
Independence Day - and I was BRILLIANT in church this morning! I had my epiphany about 11:00 last night while walking the dogs - everything I was experiencing was about my "sentence" (the Landmark description for the self-definition that one lives ones truth out of.) I was experiencing a lot of swirl, but I just wasn't getting it until Friday and Saturday, when I had all that STUFF going on with getting paid, and people showing up, etc.
I didn't do but the roughest of outlines on what I had to say, pulled about six quotes together from A Course in Miracles, the bible, the Science of Mind and Troward's essays.
Got to church about 9:30 - the Lutherans across the street had taken over the ENTIRE parking lot. Parked around the corner, was the first and only one there until about 10:00, by which time I had set everything up. We only had six today; but, I was BRILLIANT. I had EVERYONE talking, asking questions, posing situations, giving examples. It was GREAT. Afterward, Rosita (one of the other board members) said that she was so enjoying the little environment that we have created that she hated missing a Sunday! She loves the conversation, and what we're working on!
After church, drove home, changed, walked the mutts, and drove out to Mikey's to have lunch (yum!) and see Spiderman 2. That was fun. Then, a quick visit to Jarred (who was swamped - the only bartender working) and then to R&R's for dinner and QAF, which was very very good. After that, I scrubbed Ruby down at a coin-op car wash, drove home, wiped down the car, walked the dogs and now .. hopefully, I can get some sleep!
Tomorrow, I've decided to focus on getting some of the integrity back - waxing the car, grooming the dogs, working on some document projects .. that will feel just great.
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