It's Not A Bender, It's A Lifestyle.

3 little months separate me from my Vegas. Still locked into 4 nights at Hard Rock as of now. Great rate for a suite, don't see this reservation changing unless some high-level resort rooms comp up at CET. On the job front, have gotten some nibbles and even a bite or two, I've been phone interviewing at least once a week and had 2 of those with Thermo Fisher Scientific to be onsite at a Merck plant last week. A little concerned as they haven't contacted me since. I would be interested in the job but I think the person I interviewed with last who would be my direct supervisor may think I'm qualified to do HER job, and may hold that against me. Politics get played in the business world sometimes before you even have a job. Have another set of interviews onsite at another pharma firm in South City for Thursday, but that's a startup and startups make me leery. I had an interview with a startup company named Munchery back when I wasn't really looking for...

Whelp, that was an interesting one, huh? Everything started more or less normally. Work, weekends, and Vegas trips. Work-wise, was plugging away at a thankless job and continuing to grow more and more disillusioned. Surrounded by employees and bosses that didn't understand what I did and didn't appreciate when I did it. An owner stopping my inventory process right in the middle to completely re-vamp the database that I used all day every day, with no warning. Most importantly, a new "boss" was hired as operations manager and became my direct report. Dark foreshadowing. Weekends were the usual, out to Polk street to party it up, with the twist that during the course of the year I started leaving Polk in the evening to head down to SoMa to go to Butter and Driftwood and occasionally Cat Club. Predictable, somewhat routine but still fun. Got nowhere whatsoever during the entire year with the opposite sex, but my strong "oh well" attitude made that not mu...