Okay. I am back, I think. Got a shiny new laptop for work, which should help me separate out "time to do my stuff" from "time to do work stuff" from "just staring at a laptop because that's what I've been doing for the past 6 hours ( Read more... )

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These 'hotel balcony national anthem' videos always give me the good kind of goosebumps.

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Show actually start at about 2 minutes in--just a fun little sampling of fireworks for those who might not have any available where they are, or don't feel like dealing with heat and mosquitoes ( Read more... )

Two weeks of employment remaining and I am ... very very ready to be done. I am frantically trying to finish up what was supposed to be a two-person project, going through and verifying 5200+ transcripts (about 10% of them have significant formatting issues) prior to the coming merger with a larger school. As the task was originally divvied up, I'd ( Read more... )

Pros of limiting myself to only 1.5 hours daily of "free internet time" (7:30-9PM): got a bunch of chores done, read a book, took a nap, didn't touch the computer until 6PM for a (not-work-related) meeting ... generally felt like I was on vacation because there just wasn't any desire/drive to get on the computer ( Read more... )

I was sitting by our outdoor fireplace, thinking about how as a kid I desperately wanted a fireplace but always imagined it inside the house, which I knew meant it would never happen. The idea of an outdoor fireplace never occurred to me, but it bypasses all the various structural and financial issues that meant an indoor fireplace was functionally ( Read more... )

First: Happy Valentine's Day! Even if you don't have a "significant other", there are many kinds of love, and they are all gifts--I hope you are able to appreciate and celebrate some of them today. <3

Second: I knew yesterday, even as I felt like I was at the bottom of a deep hole, that today would be better somehow. And it is! The sun is out, I ( Read more... )

( whining about health insurance hunting woes )

Work is very strange at the moment; the school is probably going to close or merge at the end of this school year/sometime this summer, though the board of trustees will make a decision about that later this week. They were already slowly reducing my hours to 2 days a week as of April, but that was originally going to be a (hopefully) temporary ( Read more... )

- Hilaire Belloc
It freezes - all across a soundless sky ( Read more... )

It's cold and damp and gray; my cold from last week has returned with a vengence; all I want to do is curl up in bed and eat snacks. (Well, and finish the current playthrough of Shadows Over Loathing.)