I just found out that one of the three other people who applied for my position (the one that was created as permanent specifically to keep me on) - specifically Aggressively Awkward Girl from our neighbour department - is actually already a permanent employee. Me? I'm a temporary employee, but I've been doing this exact same job for two and a half ( Read more... )

Okay ( Read more... )

• STILL NOT DEAD
• didn't get off bike to walk up any hills today
• still hate hills, hills are assholes
• also hello shoulder pain, I remember you, this is sooner than I expected you
• apparently I'm getting one trip per day in the dry which means it will rain at 4pm on the dot

So I have achieved day 3! My most optimistic predictions suggested that I would have missed at least one day or given up by now, given that a) Bike to Work Week in Vancouver generally means five convenient days of unceasing torrential downpour and b) biking to work means bypassing Tim Hortons. But this morning I still got on the bike and did it, so ( Read more... )

So I just rode my bike to work for the first time in 1.5 years.
(One could argue it was the first time I rode my bike to work voluntarily. My last (terrible, no good, very bad) job started at 5am and it was the only way to get there.)

It was okay! Though I think the cycleroute planner engine and I disagree about what constitutes a 5% grade.
But I ( Read more... )

You know how sometimes you're having a great day and you're like "uh oh, now something shitty is going to happen," and then you laugh ( Read more... )

I rode my bike 10 kilometers today. Well; 10 each way, so actually 20 kilometers. Not because I particularly wanted to - more because I wanted to see if I could. Answer: yes. Second answer: ow, my legs.

I've been running more or less regularly, by which I mean "three times a week." Ever since the revelation that many of my pants no longer fit, I' ( Read more... )

I am having a really hard time watching White Collar right now. Probably it's not just me.

( Spoilers, obviously. )

1. Get up. Shower. Eat a bagel and some yogurt ( Read more... )

2010 sucked, didn't it? But that's okay! It's dead and we can dance on its grave!

This evening was spent in a tea party and watching episodes of Star Trek that involved time travel - specifically ones where the crew had to travel back in time and wear costumes, because mik100 and I couldn't decide if we wanted sci-fi or period drama, so we compromised! ( Read more... )