Got contacted about a job. No firm commitments on their part, but it's more interest than I've gotten in months. We'll see how it goes. I think I'm going to be a pretty good candidate.

I have finally finished Shadows of the Apt, after several months. If that sounds like a long time, well, it's a series of ten novels. My ultimate verdict is that it ( Read more... )

I went to the botanical garden a few weeks ago, for the Japanese festival. It was pretty nice--they had a display of bonsai and ikebana out, and all of them were absolutely gorgeous. I've never seen so many bonsai in one place before, and I'd never considered how useful branches could be in flower arrangements before seeing the ikebana. They make ( Read more... )

The job I've got pays well. It's pretty decent all things considered. But.

It's all inside; where I work there are almost no windows and it's under fluorescent lightning. I'm isolated from the weather; even in thunderstorms I'm lucky to hear them over the chirping and banging of the HVAC system--which booms many times a week, startling me out of my ( Read more... )

The plants are doing well. The butterfly garden established in the fall is... well, it's not quite as successful as I'd hoped; we didn't get any butterfly weed showing up, not yet. But the blazing star is coming up and growing rapidly, the boneset is coming back up, and the asters are coming back. And they will spread; boneset in particular seems ( Read more... )

Saw my first Gila monster last week--hopefully, the first of many. Saw desert tortoises and a rattlesnake, too ( Read more... )

I'm doing well in my internship. When I started, I was worried I wasn't going to be able to keep up with the other interns, which quickly turned out not to be the case. According to the senior intern, I'm pretty fast, though that may be as much due to other interns not focusing on their work as it is due to any natural skill I have ( Read more... )