Just finished my annual performance review with my manager.

 
Lately I’ve been frustrated with my job, but nonetheless, I worked my ass off and got rave reviews. I’ll have to wait until December to find out what the pay-off will be for my efforts. It better be good (no pun intended).

 
The talk actually helped me feel better about going forward in this position and under the tutelage of my manager. We’re actually very much alike - young, smart, talented, driven women - and the area we struggled with the most is communication. But hey, we’re techies! We don’t DO communication, and I have my own personal issue with communication, so I gotta do better with that in the future. I’m only hurting myself if I don’t (hence the built up frustration).

 
I’m light-weight excited about the projects coming up for the next year. But one thing I refuse to do again, is event planning. Somehow……(because I’m so damn competent!)……I got suckered into planning our Annual Sales Kick-Off Meeting. Dammit!! I’ll be glad when Thursday afternoon (3pm to be exact) finally comes around. I think I’ll celebrate that night, and stay home on Friday. Yeah, that sounds like a plan.

 
But at least the higher ups will know my name. Could be a good or bad thing, depending on how this event turns out.

 
And in the time of economic struggle (both nation and world wide), my company is actually doing fairly well. Praise.Him!! While the threat is still out there, I can say that I’m comfortable with the likelihood that my company will not only keep me around, but also increase my earning potential.

 
So yeah, all in all, things are definitely pos-i-tive.

P.S. Watch this clip on Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama.

 
I’m startin to wonder if I should get on board with this Twitter phenomenon. I know I’m extra late, but it seems a lot easier to keep that up to date than it is by making blog posts.

 
Anyways, I just saw the Southwest Airlines commercial, where they tell the guy that his luggage is free, and the folks in the airport break into song, and some woman is in the background freakin that “Haaalllelujah”. LOL, it cracks me up EVERY time.

 
I notice that every time I’m in the bathroom at work, and I finish doin’ what I gotta do, the “automatic” air freshener always goes off. I know its supposed to be on a timer and err’thang, but uhhh, why it always gotta go off when I get through, hmmm?

 
Its not that I don’t wanna go out. Its just that I can’t afford to. Maybe next month.

 
GO TROJANS! So, I’m into football and err’thang, but if I can’t watch USC play……what’s the point? They are forever showing me these damn Notre Dame games (like I give a damn) just because I’m on the east coast. I need ESPN Gameplan in my life.

And I need Lisa Salter’s job. I shoulda went that way 9 yrs ago.

 
If they keep it up, the folks at work are about to see the ugly side of B. Good.

 
Its about to be Sunday. Great.

 
Halloween……plans? Do people still make plans for Halloween? It would’ve totally slipped by me (and probably still will) if someone hadn’t mentioned their costume today. I might buy a bag of candy and hand it out to myself.

 
I wonder how much longer I’ll stay in NY. I wonder how much longer I’ll stay at my job. I’m half-way to being fully vested in my 401(k). That’s the farthest I’ve gone with an employer. Can I hold out? Should I hold out? I probably should. I’m thinkin’ I will. But it won’t be doin’ the same thing I’m doin now, that’s for sure.

See all of that would be way cooler in Twitter, huh?

Naw, it still woulda been lame, lol.

 
See, I don’t wanna be a non-believer, and total skeptic. And even though I have those tendencies, I want to think that I’m just hyper-sensitive due to the experiences I’ve had. But muhfuckas are indeed LIARS.

 
So what do you do when you catch someone in a lie? Meaning, you’ve “stumbled” across some information that wasn’t meant for you to see, but now you’ve seen it and now you know.

 
Do you bust ‘em out?? If so……how? Do you tell them about the information you’ve seen? Or do you just elude to the fact that you know what wasn’t meant for you to know, and its not important HOW you know?

 
Do you cut them off, with no explanation or conversation? Just, dead it.

 
Do you file it back, know for yourself that this person is a liar, and proceed to use the situation to your advantage while limiting your interactions with them?

 
I plan on responding, but I’m wondering what others think about it?

 
He’d rather stay and deal with the BS, just to have someone to love, regardless of who that someone is, so that he isn’t alone.

 
She’s the total opposite. She’d rather be alone before she stayed in some mess, just to have someone to love.

Why would someone be that desirous for love?

 
Surely there must be a reason why a person would rather take something, anything, that resembles love and affection, than to be left with nothing.

There is.

 
And she learned that she is not without compassion, but she lacks the ability to appropriately display that emotion.

 
She believes that this is her mission, sent from above.

 
So I got through one hour of the VP candidate debate.

I thought it was interesting how there was all this talk about Joe Biden needing to be careful that he wasn’t condescending or patronizing towards Sarah Palin (because she’s a woman); meanwhile, Sarah Palin was incredibly condescending during that whole debate (well, the part I watched……I couldn’t stand it watch more than an hr).

That woman irks. I couldn’t even focus on the issues because I was distracted by the irritating sound of her voice and her repetitive use of the word “Maverick” (Lord get that woman a new word!). And……Joe Biden wasn’t that captivating either. He was aight.

But both candidates definitely backed up their running mate quite well.

Shum on November!