rural juror

not feeling inspired to write at the moment - but i feel bad every time i see my blog listed on dan's webpage & i realize i'm eeking closer to 3 weeks since updating. so, to relieve my guilt & move myself to the top of the list for a short time, here's the recent happenings:

• there will be a merger - mixed feelings all around. i was needing some challenge but it didn't need to come this way...
• my little underground group of folks from work finally sent out our memo about job loss to the big-wigs only to be ignored. the boss was really cranky about it & kinda yelled a bit about it at the next day's staff meeting...
  
• recruitment of the new crew has begun & it's been a big pain so far. not many female applicants so far. i hope they get their act together & apply. come on, lazy girls!
• my shoulder was really feeling amazing & we were talking about slowing down on therapy & then i went to a yoga class & over did it. i didn't purposely sabatoge myself - but i miss yoga a lot. pilates isn't the same.
  
• went to jury duty last week. everyone was like, "they'll see that you're a professional, white woman & send you home by 1pm..." fools. i don't dress professionally! i ended up on the jury for a murder trial that starts on monday. i'm a bit freaked out about it - missing work for most if not all of the week, possibly deciding someone's future (i'm an alternate) & seeing/hearing gory terrible things that will fuck with my head... sounds fun. i did meet this totally cool lady at jury duty though - we had a great conversation at lunch. made me realize how much i miss having close girl friends around. and i realized i could have friends who are significantly older than me. age isn't that big of a deal anymore. she was 54 & we had plenty to talk about.
• apparently they only have enough cash reserves to pay us all full wages for the next 3 months. we were told we need to figure out how to bring in more money - each one of us - & find ways to be more economical so we dont' have to lay people off. brilliant plan... i see a lot of layoffs in month 4.
• house hunting continues. we decided to check out a few places that were above our price range today & a few within. of course one of the expensive ones was pretty nice. but i didn't really feel like it was home for us - though it was the first place that had a good kitchen. we saw another place that was pretty cheap & HUGE. seriously enormous. 3 floors. the third floor was right inside the tall hip roof - very cool. but it felt like a bowling alley. i can't imagine dan & i living in a 3-story, 4 bedroom house.