Mark and I went to do our taxes last week. Now we have used this accountant for three years, but I had never met her. Mark just always went and took care of everything. But I had to go this time to set everything up for my extra contract income for 2010 ( Read more... )

All this constant work and running around has finally caught up to me and now I'm home sick with a bad bad cold on deadline week. Grah ( Read more... )

So yesterday I almost got hit by a car.

I was walking downtown, crossing Market St. when this Expedition came flying around the corner and slammed on his brakes about 2 feet from where I was standing. Immediately a chorus of horns erupted from several cars at the intersection, and i froze. how stupid is that, a huge SUV coming towards me and I ( Read more... )

so there is this german lady who works in the snack shop where mark and i sometimes get yogart. we just went down there and mark decided to tell her that i'm a german minor. she wouldn't take my order until i said it in german. at that moment i promptly forgot everything i learned over the past 2 years and turned bright red. she told me that i ( Read more... )

i really really hate pollen. but this made it all seem ok:

http://cowcotland.free.fr/modules/Forums/conneries/russes.mpeg

julie found the squirrel with the missing tail in the arboretom. it's alive, though not particularly well. julie said that it looks like a little bunny rabbit that is trying to climb a tree with no sense of balance.

wow.

21. The Diving Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno moving right along through the booklist. however, i only let myself read these books when i work out in the morning... a treat to myself i guess. (though not all parts of all the books are a treat ( Read more... )

People spotted in the last 24 Hours ( Read more... )

last night i came back to work to bring mark lunch. he ended up working from 8:45am to 11:30pm. our new management needs to hire new people, but they would rather have our current staff work 15 hour shifts. everyone had to come in at 6am this morning and they are all sufficiently pissed off. i'm waiting for one to blow. my office mate James told me ( Read more... )

and so the day continued ( Read more... )