And, to be specific, that I look like a middle manager from a certain NBC comedy. I hope this isn’t everyone’s opinion of me at work, or I’ll never get promoted to middle management! (Actually, I think they were just joking).

Personally, I think it’s the mug that gives off that impression … (yes, I drink from a beer mug … at work*.)

*I don’t actually drink beer in it … well, in that one. I have four more at home that I do drink beer out of.

I took advantage of not being able to fall back to sleep by updating the About Me! page on the right-hand column.

Malnurtured Snay lived for several years in the Baltimore City area, but moved to Cleveland Park in Washington, DC in June of 2008, where he rents a very expensive and very small studio apartment overlooking the National Zoo. Perpetually single, he shares hilarious misadventures with his felines, Guy and Tippy, who somehow never manage to clean up after themselves.

Malnurtured Snay is a registered member of a political party which is neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party. Malnurtured Snay’s political views include a diverse range of viewpoints, and he is pro-gay rights, anti-death penalty, pro-choice, anti-torture, pro-1st and 2nd Amendment, and pro-legalized drugs (even though he has only smoked weed once). He is voting for Barack Obama in 2008.

Malnurtured Snay used to get road rage. And then he moved to DC and sold his car. Now he suffers from Metro Rage.

It was only about two years out of date.

I like the hours I work, I like the people I work with. Thanks to turnover, in the six-months that I’ve been working there, I’ve got the seniority where, coupled with the relatively low holiday traffic our downtown location affords, I probably will have Black Friday and Christmas Eve off.

Here’s the problem: it’s no secret the bookstore I work for is in financial trouble. Well, I mean, not just the location, but the company as a whole. A former corporate-level employee who was demoted due to layoffs is predicting a post-Christmas fire sale and all stores shuttered by New Year’s. That’s probably a worst case scenario, but it’s also probably not too far from the truth.

So here’s my dilemma: do I stick with this company, and hope things work out for the best and we’re able to keep operating and I’m not scrambling for a part-time job at the start of the New Year? Or should I bite the bullet, accept that I’ll have to work a crappy holiday schedule, risk not getting the hours I get now, and make the jump before a whole ton of unemployed booksellers are trying to get in at our big competitor?