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Yesterday's little pity party (really, it is little) was my one hundreth entry. Hoo-hah.
A bunch of us are going to T.G.I.Friday's after work for holiday celebrations and libations, and a very cool former cow-orker has promised to help me drown my sorrows in Cosmopolitans.
The Huz took the "raise" news pretty well. He's far more pragmatic than I am. The situation can't be changed, so he thinks we'll just have to make the best of it. Which includes taking the retirement plan deductions, seeing as we have our future to think of. And he's grateful to finally have health insurance, and brought up the fact that my situation at this job is better overall than at my old one.
It's just frustrating to feel I've taken a step backward, that from a financial standpoint we're not in a better place than we were a year ago.
I think I'm going to write my boss a letter to state my point of view on the situation.
On to more pleasant subjects. After my friend Sheila's show Saturday night, I went out with the cast and some others, including Sheila's husband John and two musician friends of theirs, Martha Trachtenberg and her husband Tom Griffith. I'd seen them open for Lucy Kaplansky at The Brokerage, and while we were standing around in the theater lobby I kept stealing sideways glances at Martha, thinking, "Is that who I think it is?" Sheila confirmed that indeed it was, and I think Tom was surprised I remembered his name. We spent a lovely couple of hours talking about the music world and the theatre world (about which they know next-to-nothing, and found quite entertaining).
Cutting this short, because exams are starting and I have to get butt in gear.
Later!
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