Time for the bi-annual check in! Last time we saw Allie she was pretty depressed and thoroughly hating life, work, family, relationships, and birth control. In the last six months she has since:

• Quit the Burke Museum.
• Got full time (FULL. TIME. I think I might cry) at the Science Center doing something that is a liiiiiiittle bit better than just ( Read more... )

Going over to C's tonight to make tacos for Valentine's Day! Tacos because...because why not, damnit? I've been craving tacos. And we're drinking champagne too, because we have some on hand and why the hell not, again? The hard part is going to be the shells: I do not like soft-shell tacos, but (in an attempt to get back into making healthier food ( Read more... )

I know, I know, I’ve been gone for a while. Here’s the lightning-round update:

• The end of Spring Quarter was INSANE. Public Engagement & Art? A huge success, but INSANE! Audience Research? Also a success, but STILL INSANE (also, my loathing for audience studies and my love for zoos have both increased threefold. Figures).
• I went to Portland right ( Read more... )

( Shit, it's been over a month, where do I even begin? )

Huzzah, there is sunlight! I have suddenly have energy! I think I'll write something!
Thanks to my selflessly working on Memorial Day, I got to take this Friday off. I knew that I needed to visit UW’s Burke Museum (if I’m gonna be in the program, might as well see the goods!), and that I needed to touch bases with my Nikki, seeing as I’m one of her ( Read more... )

I made a snafu at work. Nothing too big, I just managed to somehow delete a bunch of events out of our scheduling program. This led to a rather larger number of meeting conflicts and terse emails back and forth than I'm comfortable with. I'm NOT freaking out, I swear I'm not, the situation has been contained and all my coworkers are uniformally ( Read more... )

It's my brother's birthday! Everybody give him a (loving, gentle, sisterly) kick in the head for me.

Ooooooh, I am in a funk today. Everything bugs me: the news, the shorter days, our customers, food, exercise, my crushes (especially the crushes!) all provide me with excuses to feel negative. I'm going to chalk this up to the exhausted let-down ( Read more... )

Ha! I have successfully navigated craigslist, waded through the spam and fought off the crazies, to land us a decent housemate (and without anybody's help, thank-you-very-much). Her name is Daphna, she just graduated with her Masters in Social Work from PSU, and she seems sane, easy-going, funny, and totally awesome. I can see myself being good ( Read more... )

I am returned, flush with victory from my belated-birthday party that I threw! Well, actually, I was a little disappointed at the smallness of the crowd: of the ten or so OMSI people I invited, none showed up. It was just me, the housemates (Kristen, Steven, and Emme), the gentleman Kristen is dating, my ex-housemate/adopted older brother Adam, ( Read more... )

In the OMSI gift shop they are selling a tiny digital camera you can clip to your dog or cat's collar. It takes pictures in 1, 5, or 15 minute intervals.

< singsongvoice > Somebody just found what she wants for her birthday! < /singsongvoice ( Read more... )