the Battle of LA

i can't believe that I'm watching the struggling Los Angeles Lakers play the Pacific Division leading Los Angeles Clippers. Most years this isn't really even much of a contest, but now there's a lot of pride up for grabs at the Staples Center where both teams play their home games. I've got thanksgiving week off. things at my job have been weird the past month. I haven't blogged about it at all, but there was a day about five or six weeks ago where my boss pulled me into his office and told me that he wasn't sure he could keep me past the end of the week. They were having budget cuts, and the order came down from the Executive department to stop all outside contracts. I was told that I may have to leave at the end of the week. That was a bad day. luckily Joseph campaigned often to his boss to keep me around. he told her that I was working on projects and he couldn't pull me from them, and they agreed to keep me to the end of October. I've hung on since then, it's November and I'm still around. Today i made a presentation to my boss's boss to help update her on the project and it went well. Really well, as a matter of fact. From the sound of things, I'll be there through February. Maybe even longer. I actually have the upcoming week off. no work at either job. Not much to do for school. I'm going to take Heather up to Los Angeles. I'm really enjoying putting together a list of places to take her.