I typically don't have Sunday blahs, but I do wish this week was less overloaded so I could fit in some extra sleep somewhere. It's the first week of classes, so that means all my regular meetings plus some extra meetings plus the start of teaching and extra teaching prep. *sigh ( Read more... )

Monday: Walked into work to find my workstation mysteriously fried over weekend. After an entire morning of meetings, went to a lunch meeting where I realized I forgot to back-up a file for a major project I was working on. Lost like....four hours of work because Friday afternoon I was tired and forgot to upload the one. file. I needed before I ( Read more... )

To my own surprise, it feels like. marthawells has epic posts here and here about the events and such. I hid out a fair bit with Martha throughout because I was in complete overload and she was one of (many, actually) friendly faces there. I've been very clingy the last few days and everyone has been amazingly patient with me (especially Todd, OMG, poor guy ( Read more... )

So the last two years of my life is concluding shortly: the catalogs for Deeper Than Swords: Celebrating the Work of George R. R. Martin arrived today. They are...pretty weighty. We ordered 3500 of 'em since we're expecting 2400 for the opening. George pimped the event on his Not A Blog last week--using Todd's very stylish poster. (BTW if anyone ( Read more... )

Mostly. Every step forward on my big project at work is an epic battle for no real reason--just other people's egos who want in on what they see as the glory (where was "the glory" when I was quietly trundling away for five years?). It's absolutely exhausting and emotionally draining and physically debilitating. Thursday afternoon Todd took me ( Read more... )

I'm working my third Saturday and at least it's quiet because there's a football game, so it's largely innocent tourists and I can do homework in between bouts of being cheerily helpful. Saturdays are boring though because none of my friends are here and it's lonely.

In cheerier news, the lovely avictoriangirl made me an epically appropriate icon. *loves*

Last night they took down the shiny scifi banners on the building.

This morning, they put up these:


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Got in the better part of a massive donation today (the rest should come Monday), so some of my colleagues helped me move over 130 boxes of books and stuff I'm going to be plundering through ( Read more... )

Okay, so tomorrow night I'm flying to CA for a week of vacation with Scott. *grins like a happy goof* The Familia Samuelson will be kindly taking care of the furchildren for me once again. So I'll be on friends-only mode for the week while I'm traveling ( Read more... )

In that we had an armed gunman on campus this afternoon and told to lockdown. This happened around 3pm. This led to everyone constantly checking newswebsites for more info, getting rumors over Facebook (at one point there were reports of a sniper at Kyle field), etc. Around 5:30 UPD announced an all-clear; they had located and detained a student ( Read more... )