Ah November, I barely knew you
Seven posts in thirty days? That's just sad.
How is it possible that it's December already? Every year it seems that someone hits fast forward around the second week in October and bam! We go straight from Halloween to the Christmas season with barely a pause for breath. Of course it doesn't help that, in addition to all the holiday madness, this is also the time of year when my job ramps up from "crazy" to "absolute unbridled insanity." Long time readers will remember that we're getting into that time of year when I regularly work more than 100 hours in a week.
Thankfully, my raise finally came through... seven months to the day after I started in the position. Gotta love corporate bureaucracy.
It's a generous percentage increase that's being retro'd back five months - in a couple of weeks I'll get the largest paycheck that I have ever seen so I should be overjoyed. But the fact is that the percentage isn't quite as generous as it should have been, nor is it being retro'd quite as far as it should have been, and after seven months of being jerked around the most emotion I could summon was "It's about time." I did thank my VP and Manager profusely for their hard work, though - they've been beating their heads against the bureaucratic juggernaut for months on my behalf and I am VERY appreciative. It's nice to know that they value me enough to have kept fighting for me.
In other news... there isn't much other news. I was joking with VT on Friday that my life has become boring, but she suggested that perhaps "focused" is a better descriptor. I'm working a lot, training 5 days a week, trying to get a new side project off the ground, and spending a lot of time taking stock of my life. I guess that's what winter has always been for me - a period of intensity and focus before the carefree enthusiasm of spring. I'm enjoying the work this year, but I'm still looking forward to feeling the warm sun in a couple of months.
YAAAAAYYY! I'm so glad you *finally* got the raise. :)
Posted by: Firebug | December 02, 2007 at 12:37 PM
Woohoo! Congratulations on your raise.
Posted by: Chana | December 02, 2007 at 07:43 PM