The life & ramblings of Bound2Tease

So, if you didn't know already, I got a new temp job working at the St. Joesph County Archives. It looks like a great job, interesting (to me) at least, and it's not Home Depot. Of course, I get this job RIGHT after I start getting full 40 hours a week from Home Depot, because all of the kidlings are going back to school....so I spend 2-3 hours on a day off trying to shuffle schedules around so I can start right away. Right after I get done getting all of my shifts covered, they tell me they don't need me until the 25th. Figures, right. Well, of course, the week of the 25th is the week I couldn't get rid of all my hours, so I have to start my new job on Tuesday instead of Monday because I have to work at stupid Home Depot still. Then I have to take a day off at the new place on Wednesday of that week because I have to work again at home depot all day. Grr..

And then on top of that, my mom hears about this nice job from a friend of hers at the school we all went to, so she applies and it looks like she's gonna get it. Is it wrong to want your mom not to get a job? The reason for that is if she gets a job, then she needs a car, and then we end up a car short. Unfortunately for her (and luckily for me) she didn't get it, but I have a feeling that soon down the road, she'll probably get a call, because I know the type of people they normally hire for the job she was applying for, and they tend to flake out after a while. I think she didn't get hired because she would be making too much money, due to her prior school experience. I hope she does get it, because lord knows she's bored at home, but if she does, what the hell do I do for a car. I don't have enough money now to pay my bills, put gas in the car, and still have anything left over, let alone if I have to get a car too on top of it.

*sigh* And this new job is a temp job, and with all the crappy budget cuts going on around here lately, the lady didn't know if she would be able to keep me past January, so...there's that element of instability as well.

But it is experience that's in my field, and I think that trumps anything, even if the job ends in January. I do have to admit, it looks really interesting, and the lady really liked me, but who knows.

And of course, on top of all that, I'm still damn lonely. Who knew it'd be so goddamn hard to find bi/gay guys in the area that weren't fruitcakes. I need some cock, damn it, and i'll be goddamned if I can't find ANY!

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Development Goals and Basic Accounts

Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development.

We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts.

As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities.

Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning.

Indian Flash Fiction Contest

In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner!

Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc.

We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team.

I just had the weirdest dream.... I dreamt that I paid a porn star $2,000 to sleep with me/fuck me in the ass with a strap-on.

My god, I'm spendthrifty. :)