It's NaNoWriMo time again. I don't know, I've tried. For two years I've tried. Last year I even got a significant amount of words in. If I could devote all of my free time to it, I would do it, would go for it, but as it is, I think I'd better give it up this year.
Bought a pumpkin last night. I'm not certain when he will get a face, probably tomorrow. There will be pictures if it's not still rainy. Trick or Treating is Tuesday here, the surrounding towns are anywhere from Saturday to Tuesday. They have it from five to eight here, which I suppose might deter older kids from being jackasses (and college students from being drunken jackasses), but five's a little early to start. How many people are off work before five?
Trying to find another job to do between now and whenever the directing might start. (I haven't heard from them, but then, I haven't checked my voicemail either, so maybe I have.) The library in Marion is hiring, but I didn't realise that when I read the ad. I told The Boy I think it would be unfair to the library to apply when I could only work for maybe three months. Nathan (imitating his mother) says that you just don't tell them.
Is it wrong of me to think that this is utterly stupid? If you know you'll be starting another job in three months, and you apply to a place that expects to keep you for longer than that, isn't it in everyone's best interests they be told? I suppose if you're working for a company that already has a high turnover rate and can afford to replace anyone with the next high school student or geriatric that comes along (Wal-Mart), it's not as big a deal, but to do that to a smaller business seems to me incredibly dishonest.
If a place is willing to hire me knowing I can only work for three or four months, they will hire me. If they want someone longer than that, they should be given the opportunity to find someone who fits that description. Am I the only one who sees not doing that as deception? You should not be required to tell a company whether you're married, whether you're gay, that kind of thing, because it doesn't relate to the job, but how long you can work for a company most certainly does relate, and so the employer should know.
I'd like to find something in a little local business, because they don't have a lot of corporate nonsense to deal with. Or as a gift wrapper. I'm an excellent wrapper.