Home from Ipsos-Reid early -- again

[crowdog66]

This is getting annoying. My past 4 shifts at I-R have been cut short due to lack of work. Old-timers I've spoken to at the company say this happens every year and things should pick up around the last week in February or first week in March, but still... grrrrrr.

I'm actually well enough now (thanks to nortriptyline) to work a full 21 hours a week, AND I've found a voice that puts me ahead of the median group flowrate (at least an octave highter than my normal contralto and apparently hitting the subconscious "young and unthreatening female" buttons in my listeners). Having hours cut at this time is most frustrating.

On the plus side, over half of "Girl Genius" #11 is on my hard drive and at $75 US per page, that will bring in a pretty chunk of change in time for our moving. And there's still the possibility of work laying flats for a local comic colorist, at $40 CAN per page.

Guess I'll use tonight to either (a) paint Girl Genius, or (b) go to bed early and catch up on sleep. In any case, I'll keep an eye on my email (assuming I can get it to work -- Canada.com seems to be having trouble loading its inboxes). Perhaps something will present itself!

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Short shifts

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Ech, I hear yah! Because of the series of cold snaps we've had here in Massachusetts, things have been pretty dead in the bakery department, so my hours (along with several other people's hours) have gotten cut. Now they got cut a leetle too deeply and the few people that *are* working are run ragged trying to keep up!