A while ago G & I ate out and got 2 fortune cookies. Each one came sealed separately in plastic. The first fortune said "You will receive a fortune. (cookie)"* and we did (even not counting the self-referential fortune/cookie, because we got the second fortune cookie), but I was still disappointed in that fortune because it felt like it couldn't ( Read more... )

January: Arisia ( Read more... )

Last year I posted this, and this year once again we got through all the prep work and the sedarim and the rest of pesach with a lot less fuss than I remember from many of past years. This year I also remembered the too-strong maror from last year, so after G cut the maror we left it out uncovered for a couple of hours, and that plus him cutting ( Read more... )

"Grown up life is open book." - Said by me at an "Alumnae in Math, Physics & Engineering Careers Panel".

"They're ready for the zombie apocalypse." - Said by me to a colleague re a client. My next sentence was, "They've got a bunch of war rooms and one 'War Room Z'." First sentence got a startled look, the next one got a laugh.

Today I was working on a project when my boss asked me to interrupt what I was doing to work briefly on another project. The first project is referred to as "Time", so I got to respond to my boss that yes, I would "pause Time ( Read more... )

Last year I posted this the night before pesach, and this year I remembered that post and tried to make things go equally well. I'm not sure if we did better or worse, but either way it was close. Things were fairly calm and it felt like we had enough time for everything we needed to do... although next year I want G to cut the maror earlier than ( Read more... )

Reading over my entries so far this calendar year it seems like all I've done is deal with work and weather, and while those have been major foci, and they've affected/interfered with plenty of other things, I've also spent time/energy elsewhere. So here's something that I started writing while on the train a couple of weeks ago... ( somewhat ranty by the end - click or do not, the choice is yours )

A while ago I posted this and then I paused for feedback and to let things stew for a while... so long, in fact that I figured that the topic might seem less relevant by the time I got around to posting about it again, but (not-so-sadly*) that doesn't seem to be the case.

So here's my N cents on the subject, from a specific-to-me point of view.** ( Peek behind the curtain here. )

I'm currently writing a follow-up to this entry in another tab, and it occurred to me that this morning G & I are fitting nicely into traditional gender stereotypes: he's helping built a community sukkah, while I went shopping and did the first round of cooking for the upcoming holiday ( Read more... )

Today I saw a roadside sign advertising some local financial institution which looked like "[name of company] helping smell businesses grow", and I thought "except for certain stages of agriculture, I generally wouldn't want to smell business growing".