Wordish Wanderings - February 28th, 2008

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Waning Moon

Saturn Retrograde

Sunny and cold

I was supposed to work onsite in CT today, but that was postponed again, so I get to work at home, in the middle of building chaos.  Oh, goody.  Yes, that’s a note of sarcasm in my voice.

I’m not even angry about the building crap anymore.  I am simply done negotiating.  And I do not bluff.  That’s one of the reasons I no longer play poker.

Yesterday was more about paperwork and admin work than anything else.  I’m slowly excavating my desk.  I found a contract that I hadn’t wanted to sign during Mercury retrograde and signed it.  Much to my surprise, I received a check from a publication I’d written for last summer – I didn’t think I was ever going to chase down a penny from them.  Their definition of prompt payment is different than mine, but at least I got paid, and I can cross them off the list.  That means there’s only one outstanding unpaid client at this point, unusual for this line of work.