Stress keeps me up at night

I hate not being able to sleep. And causes sleeplessness which in turn causes extreme crankiness. I hate not being able to sleep. That is one thing I don't like about working. When I stayed at home, I never had trouble sleeping. I would fall asleep exhausted without any real worries aside from how I would entertain B and K and keep from going insane the next day.

Usually I don't have many worries over my job. Its not exactly brain surgery. Technical writing while interesting isn't going to ruin lives. But I am one of the main interviewers on our team and I particularily skewered someone this week. I wasn't really intending to go after him, but he was being evasive. I'm not sure if it was on purpose or not. Sometimes people just aren't very forthcoming. But I felt like he was trying to snow me so I kept digging. In the end, I liked the guy but didn't feel like he'd be a good hire. And it didn't really matter what I decided since he'd gotten the thumbs down from everyone else on the loop already. But I still feel bad about it. I swear sometimes I think you could get hired or not just based on whether the interviewer is having a good or bad day. I usually feel good about my decisions with hiring. I know I've gotten pretty good at interviewing. I think I just really could empathize with this guy who's in a crap situation and just wants to get out. But I didn't feel like he really wanted to work on our team as a writer. I think he was just looking for an easy out. Oh well. Hopefully he'll find something he'll really like and in the end we'll have done him a favor.

Online Stalking

So, if you've ever tried to hunt down an old friend/enemy/lover you've already discovered that some poeple are easier to find than others. It is pretty amazing to me how much you can discover about people you used to know online. But what is even more interesting is what you can't find. I mean, some people seem to have no online footprint, which is CRAZY in this day and age. I, for example, don't seem to come up in searches for my maiden name. So here I'm going to make it easy. If you are looking for me, I'll put all the buzz words you need right here.

Tacoma
Washington
Early Entrance Program (EEP)
Margaret
Edie
Parsons
MIT
Boston
University of Washington
Seattle
Oceanography

Wow, that's about it. Sad that so few words can sum up my past. But if you are here, drop me a line. For some sick reason I'm curious about what has happened to all the people I used to know but lost touch with.