Women, you are not allowed go on a date

Until You Read This.

"I am special. I am also pretty and smart and all that other crap. I am no one's second choice. I want someone to share adventures with and I want to grow with someone. If this doesn't work out I will be fine but I really hope this goes somewhere. I have proper places for the current people and situations in my life and there is room for a relationship. I am willing to work for someone, but I will not tolerate being treated unfairly."

If you can't read that and have it be 99% true then you are not allowed to go on a date. I forbid it. If you can not imagine the person you are going on a date with saying this then you are not allowed to date that person. I am your father and you will do as I say.

BUT WAIT THERE IS MORE

"I would like to go on a date with you because I would like to go on a date with you. I am not bringing you into my life so that I can have stories to share. If I feel like talking about our experiences I will, stories will be told with respect for you and for me. I have told the gossips in my life to get their own life. I am not doing this to bring anyone else pleasure or pain. You are not an obligation. I am excited to see you and see where this goes."

Again if you can't say this about yourself or assume it about your prospective suitor then you should probably make it a solitaire night.

Oh and one more deal maker statement for you and your man "I do not have a blog"

Good luck out there ladies.

I AM HESTER PRINN.

I am not like you, nor am I like the other people that work at my job. I am a contract employee, which means the company I work for is paying another company more money than I am getting for having me work there. I am surprizingly ok with them taking a cut of my goods and services for two reasons: I am not going to be worth anything to this company for a long while and the contractor pushed up my payrate much higher than I even value myself at.

In regards to pay I really hope I'm given the promised payrate when I see my first paycheck. I have an offer letter but the whole "THIS CAN BE RENEGOTIATED AT ANYTIME WITHOUT YOUR CONSENT" thing scares me. I believe the agency gets a percentage of my hourly rate so I think its in their best interest to be honest with me. We'll see at the end of the month (I think I get paid then... I hope I get paid then).

Aside from that I'm pretty much a second class citizen: I have to complain for any access to anything that real employees are given the keys to on their first day. No company funded health care or investment plans is also annoying. It'll be k though. I'll tell you what's not k, I spent a good portion of my lunch hour finding neat stuff at the company store. I was told at checkout that I wasn't allowed to purchase anything unless I was a 100% pureblooded employee.

I think this is how the holocaust started.

Calm Down. I was only gone for a minute.

I'm back....I'm back. Now settle yourself down. I leave for a short period of time and you start flipping out and waking the neighbors. Don't worry where I was, I ran out for a minute. Let's not talk about how I left you. Let's talk about your behavior when I was away. You need to be able to handle yourself when I leave you. You are old enough to not be scared about me leaving you. You have the capabilities of entertaining and supporting yourself in my absence.

... I'm not going to hold this over your head. I'm back now. So what are we going to do with each other?