So, we've been here in Hawaii for just over a week, and have 1.5 days left in our vacation. Now, as you would rightly assume, we've had a pretty good time here - nice weather, gorgeous scenery, too much food. Rough life. Yes, a few wrinkles here and there, but overall - not too shabby ( Read more... )

Sunday:
Samsung: Sure you can log in and see what coverage you have. We'll send you a confirmation code to your broken phone, so you can verify it's you.

Us: *bangs head* Well, that's not gonna work.

( And it only gets worse from there. )

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MHC just called it: no students on campus this fall.

(Smith College called it on Wed, and UMass Amherst called it on Thurs night; both colleges are part of the 5-college consortium with MHC. And this is after students were being reassured during a ResLife zoom meeting last night that they were proceeding as planned.)

Dammit.

So, I am disgracefully late in sharing the absolutely AWESOME Harry Potter-themed birthday card hamsterwoman and family sent me. It deserves a photo, it's just so cool:


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( Cut for girly bitching. )

It occurs to me I haven't done a proper update in awhile. So.

My birthday was last Thurs (2 Jul). My family was kind - Two made me waffles at my request, and I got presents and cards, talked to my mom and later had a Zoom with both her and my aunt/uncle. But it was otherwise pretty quiet. I had scheduled a blood donation but failed the iron test ( Read more... )

( Massive whinge about the meh-ness of life at the moment )

So it looks like I haven't posted any actual content for a couple of weeks. I feel like my life has been pretty boring, tbh. I've been full up on sub jobs, just about every day and while I certainly don't mind the money (so to speak - the pay rate isn't fantastic; MiniPlu earns more per hour at her Levi's job than I do as a sub), I intended this ( Read more... )

Cost of Two's school portraits (one 5x7", four 3x5" and 4 "wallets") when ordered via Shutterfly (apparently, the package we usually get comes with this digital option after the fact, for reprints): $2, plus a couple bucks for shipping. (We could forego the shipping and pick up the prints at the drugstore, but I'm not always thrilled with the ( Read more... )