Well, it's not over yet, I may be jumping the gun. Today is a short Friday - we get off at 3:00 pm on Friday until Labor Day. I went and read last year's blog post about the first week at CSI: I was pretty optimistic then, too, but I was already seeing red flags. …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Go get ’em, tiger
Wow. A nice leisurely weekend, marred only by a discovered leak under the kitchen sink (we'll have the super look at it tomorrow - in the meantime, that pipeline of cold water is shut off). But tomorrow... I start a new job! And I'm excited about it, but also wary since I felt pretty good …
Awoooo
I'm not particularly into werewolves, or supernatural stuff at all, but fiction has served me up not one, but three, gay werewolves in the last couple of weeks. Well, sort of. --- This past weekend, I read the three Bones books by Kim Fielding (author of the sweet sword-and-sorcery gay romance "Brute"). Geeky architect Dylan …
OK Then
So, yes, as hoped, last week, the day after my double interview for two different jobs, the organization I was leaning towards called and said they were preparing an offer (which I then got the next day). Halle-f*cking-lujah. This was the job where I'd interviewed with practically everyone, and then they called to apologize and …
Abuzz with Possibilities
On a precipice here (or at least I hope I am). As feared/hoped, I'm in the finals for two jobs and had an interview for each yesterday. Either would be fine, but I'm definitely leaning towards one. I will give details after it all resolves. I'd forgotten to mention in the last post one key …
Limbo
OK, so I'm in this weird place where there's a job I might get, but don't know when I'm going to hear about it (I'll send a followup e-mail today at some point, regardless). I've learned to trust my instincts more and more, and I don't have a rational reason for this, but right now …
Halfway There
Yay, halfway through this shitshow of a year. Well aware that the pandemic is burning through our country, and the government remains ineffective and led by an amoral broken clown who has somehow gotten to his seventies without ever learning how to take responsibility... and the problems we have with inequality and racism and science …
Jersey Girl
(or, Father's Day Trip, Part 3) On Wednesday, I left Williamsburg early enough that I made the (oft-made, in my college years) trip up to Northern Virginia in about two and a half hours. I didn't have much of an agenda, but I did want to at least drive through my home town, McLean. Didn't …
Hark upon the Gale
Or, "Father's Day Visit", part 2. So, Tuesday morning, got up, did the three-mile walk with Dad and Sam as usual (those walks have been really wonderful), and Dad and I had breakfast. Then got cleaned up and packed and on the road by about 11:00. Three hours of fairly pleasant driving and then found …
Bachelor Boys
Since my mom died in January, the goal was always to visit my dad (and brother) more often than we usually do, and have him visit us. We'd already planned a visit around Eastertime. But COVID shut that down, of course. And our tradition has always been to do a visit around Memorial Day, but …
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