Sometimes I make a joke that just seems to stick with me and I end up finding a way to tell everyone, even if it is corny. Yesterday’s joke was “this is what I get paid the medium bucks for.” Right now work and life are stressful. I am supposed to have a new employee start today. She notified me yesterday (by email) that she wasn’t going to be able to take the job due to some family circumstances. I offered her more time to get things settled if she wanted to start in a few weeks, but haven’t heard back from her yet. I know that things work out the way they are supposed to work out, but it is still stressful. Especially considering the fact that I have another employee whose last day is the 14th. So for the start of school it looks like it’ll be me, the administrative assistant and a grad student. I don’t want to open the search back up, but I don’t know that I’m 100% sure that one of the other candidates I interviewed is right. BLEH!
There is also bachelorette party drama in my world that I won’t go into too much, but I’m choosing to take the high road and not respond to a nasty email I received. But then again that’s what I get paid the medium bucks for!
I’m glad it’s the weekend. And although I am no longer going to the bachelorette party, I still have a lot of work I need to do in preparation to head to Chicago next weekend.
Andrea Unplugged 
I just thought that – given the current drama in your day-to-day activities – you might enjoy *my* current overused joke. Well, it’s not really a joke. It’s more a ridiculous threat. I like to randomly threaten to punch people in the throat.
It’s weird, but I’m just saying… it works for me. 🙂
Awesome…and threatening to punch someone in the throat is a much better comeback than “shut up.” I might just have to try it out tomorrow at work. 🙂
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