{"id":558,"date":"2004-07-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-08T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=249"},"modified":"2004-07-07T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-08T06:00:00","slug":"tell-me-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"tell me stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dobri den&#8217;, drugi.<\/p>\n<p \/>Work has been insane this week. It makes me glad I don&#8217;t really work here, or I&#8217;d be staying awake nights over this stuff. As it is, I&#8217;m already staying awake nights, so I won&#8217;t be needing any more of that, thank you.<\/p>\n<p \/>This morning, I was running even later than usual (this hurts me in my soul, as I am a perpetually early-to-on-time person, and believe it to be extremely inconsiderate to be late). I didn&#8217;t make my lunch, and I did the nearly-unthinkable and skipped coffee. I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if Dunn Brothers has put out an APB on me by now. That was kind of a bad idea, because today was all about work acrobatics. Look! I can dangle by one foot from the ceiling while rewriting this entire page! I can do backflips while rebuilding stored procs from memory! Fire me from a cannon! NOW!<\/p>\n<p \/>Ahem. However! I still like this contract a lot. I realized this yesterday when I got an email from someone who&#8217;s recruited me successfully in the past. He was offering up an 8-week gig designing user interfaces and functional requirements. It&#8217;s the kind of stuff that pays on the order of what lawyers make, and involves many meetings and <i>no<\/i> code at all. He asked if he could &#8216;financially convince&#8217; me to not renew my contract here. And I said no without thinking twice. This is a good setup, and I&#8217;m sticking with it. And just this very second, I had a good example why:<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class='small'><i>Michael:<\/i> Are we gonna have this ready to go Monday?<br \/><i>Me:<\/i> I&#8217;m ready, dude.<br \/><i>Micci:<\/i> Wait, start of business Monday or end of the day?<br \/><i>Michael:<\/i> Start of business.<br \/><i>Me:<\/i> Wait, start of business or when I get here?<br \/><i>Michael:<\/i> No&#8230; start of business, not start of <i>bidness<\/i>.<br \/><i>Me:<\/i> Awwyeah.<\/div>\n<p \/>In other news, I have come up with yet another way to waste your time, as well as my own! <a href='http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/tellmestories\/' target='externalicious'>Tell me a story<\/a>. DO IT.<\/p>\n<p \/>Bye now.<br \/>Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dobri den&#8217;, drugi. Work has been insane this week. It makes me glad I don&#8217;t really work here, or I&#8217;d be staying awake nights over this stuff. As it is, I&#8217;m already staying awake nights, so I won&#8217;t be needing any more of that, thank you. This morning, I was running even later than usual &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=558\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-90","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}