employment
my employment is changing. i am being TUPE'd. TUPE is pronounced two-pee, and it means that because the company i work for lost their contract with the company where i am located i am being transferred to this new company. i imagine this is how professional athletes feel when they are transferred to a new team, except they get loads more money and they get to be on tv and they probably don't have to worry about whether or not their temps will lose their positions and then the retraining of the temps, so really it's probably not anything like that.
this weekend i went to the writers' group and a couple people asked me what i do. my response, something boring. the meeting was interesting and i got along really well with one of the guys. he lived in ann arbor for awhile and knew someone from detroit who claimed to have been raised by feral drag queens.
one guy is writing some neat sci fi with an interesting twist on the way spirits are able to move around and communicate, another is writing sort of bleurghy stream of consciousness stuff and his partner is writing a sci fi book about the near future and a quarrantined UK, there are two memoirs happening, one based in the tarot deck and another about a year spent trying to start making wine, and then the woman wo organisies is working on the 5th book in a series, of which two are published already that are sort of humourous takes on co-op living and the ideas of chosen family and i think prostitution sort of factors in as well.
i gave a really brief description of what i'm doing, and then felt really slackerly because i haven't been doing as much as i would like on it lately, and because i'm feeling sort of stuck. i keep getting caught up in the boring minutiae.
right now i just want to read crappy romance novels and eat bon bons and get so fat that a hole has to be cut into the wall of my flat to get me out of the house for my gastric bypass. or i want to get through this and actually write this lousy book and tell this lousy story, i just have to keep pressing on.
myabe i can get TUPE'd into the life of a successful novelist, like the chabon or atwood corporation could take over my contract, and i would just switch over with my benefits and salary in tact and possibly improved. that would be okay
this weekend i went to the writers' group and a couple people asked me what i do. my response, something boring. the meeting was interesting and i got along really well with one of the guys. he lived in ann arbor for awhile and knew someone from detroit who claimed to have been raised by feral drag queens.
one guy is writing some neat sci fi with an interesting twist on the way spirits are able to move around and communicate, another is writing sort of bleurghy stream of consciousness stuff and his partner is writing a sci fi book about the near future and a quarrantined UK, there are two memoirs happening, one based in the tarot deck and another about a year spent trying to start making wine, and then the woman wo organisies is working on the 5th book in a series, of which two are published already that are sort of humourous takes on co-op living and the ideas of chosen family and i think prostitution sort of factors in as well.
i gave a really brief description of what i'm doing, and then felt really slackerly because i haven't been doing as much as i would like on it lately, and because i'm feeling sort of stuck. i keep getting caught up in the boring minutiae.
right now i just want to read crappy romance novels and eat bon bons and get so fat that a hole has to be cut into the wall of my flat to get me out of the house for my gastric bypass. or i want to get through this and actually write this lousy book and tell this lousy story, i just have to keep pressing on.
myabe i can get TUPE'd into the life of a successful novelist, like the chabon or atwood corporation could take over my contract, and i would just switch over with my benefits and salary in tact and possibly improved. that would be okay
posted by carolyn says @ 1:26 pm
2 Comments:
At 27 November 2006 at 16:58,
Alannah said…
Boo for TUPE.
Yay for interesting writers' groups. It could motive and encourage you to get a lot done!
At 27 November 2006 at 17:04,
carolyn says said…
the TUPE's nto too bad, just change and change is scary.
yeah the group should be good. there are a couple restrained jerks there and that made me feel better
Post a Comment
<< Home