another disjointed ramble

So we had this meeting recently at work, where the boss showed us how to use this new fancy "employee absence tracker" computer program, and while we talked about that, it was brought to my attention that we have TEN sick days, as well as TEN vacation days and THREE personal days off available to use each year. Yes, even if it's the first year of employment (of course, those who have worked significantly longer have even more). I have to say that's more than I ever heard of at any other workplace. My best-paying job (the one that seemed so grand until they laid me off with no warning) offered 8 sickies, one personal day and about five days' vacation at the end of the first year - which I didn't use then, but waited till about the middle of the second year, so that I could take ten days off at a time. Now I have barely started, and I can already go on a two-week vacation this very summer (not that I have any plans what to do with that as of right now - but still, it's nice to know). As for the sickies, I would never use that many if I dutifully waited till I got really sick - so I took one today.:P I mean, I have my period, and I pretty much felt like shit this morning, so it wasn't completely unmotivated; but it's nothing I haven't dealt with before, and I could have gritted my teeth and gone to work, if I had to. Except I didn't.:D I mean, why sit there all day with an aching gut, if I can stay home, stretched out comfortably on my new, beautiful sofa bed, with a new, beautiful Viggorli fanzine for company, and still get paid??? A moot question, I guess.:P

Yes, my copy of the new fanzine is already in my possession; has been for some time (in fact, it arrived about two days after I ordered it, which is pretty amazing), but I have barely started on it. I mean to savor it slowly and deliciously over the next few weeks (so far, the two stories that hit me the most were the ones by rainweaver13 and namarie120 - but that is no surprise whatsoever, since these two talented ladies usually score very high with me ;P). After all, there were also about 30 new A/L treats over at the ficathon. I feel pretty much gorged on tasty slash right now.:D

( As for less pleasant topics... )

EDIT: I just ran a spell check on this post, which I hardly ever do - and here are some replacements it suggested for "Viggorli": Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle, Gigolo and - lo and behold! - Viagra. *sporfle* Oh, the endless creativity of Microsoft.:D If I didn't know better, I could almost take it as a deliberate insult to my OTP. *shakes head, giggling helplessly, and goes back to regularly scheduled porn ;)*