...same as the old boss.

I'm going back to the job that laid me off earlier this year. Apparently, they weren't lying when they said I'd be called back if they developed an opening. I know, I'm shocked too. I just wish I had managed to find something else steady and solid, so I could have enjoyed not retreating back there, but the money is too much to shrug off. Besides, the company that currently employs me will likely fold us within the year. So, yeah. Being a grownup sucks. I'm also somewhat suspicious of the timing. The week they called me to make the offer was the first week in which I did not collect unemployment. I may be overly suspicious, but that's an interesting coincidence.

Last entry, I mentioned my new eagerness for the comic series Runaways by Marvel. I also mentioned that I keep mentally pairing off the two males on the team, despite pretty solid evidence that both are straight. That it was only the proliferation of Nifty stories featuring a dumb jock and a younger, nerdier guy that made me think of it at all?

Yeah, well, I've read farther, and now I"m not so sure about that.

There's this one scene where the jock, Chase, wakes the nerdier guy, Victor, from a nightmare. Victor jumps up, and is naked. Chase screams at the gratuitous male nudity, but all of five seconds later has completely calmed down and is having a heart to heart with Victor. Which makes my suspicious mind go, "Hmm." In this same story arc, the two are shown to be bonding quite well over their shared admiration for another teammate, Chase's girlfriend, and over their shared love of all things mechanical. My point is, if the writers had intended for them to pair off somewhere down the road, they laid the ground work for it pretty well.

In other news, when I make my trip to the environs of Yosemite in a few weeks, I will be loaded down with as many preteen books as I can stand to be parted from. After years of work, my family has finally converted my niece to being a book nerd like the rest of us. We also claimed another niece, who's a bit younger and was always a bit of an inside girl, so the victory isn't as sweet. In encouraging this, I'm loaning out my collection. I may get a third of it back someday, but hey, they need the books more.

Besides, its an opportunity to rebuy Tamora Pierce's "Protector of the Small" series. My current copies are getting a bit raggedy.