I have a friend whose husband is a college professor. Some years ago, I remember her saying he had his students submit their work anonymously because he knew or suspected he would subconsciously grade the pretty young women more leniently - or maybe then end up grading them more harshly in an overcompensating effort to second-guess his own ( Read more... )

This morning when it was time to get up I just. couldn't. and had to take an extra snooze. When I had finally showered and dressed and was dealing with breakfast, I splashed coffee on the floor because I wasn't holding the cup steadily enough to keep it from sloshing over the sides - a thing that has happened to me exactly never recently, no matter ( Read more... )

Dear person on our street* who has been putting old busted-up furniture in our contractor-supplied dumpster and today left a toilet full of cleaning liquid on the street between the dumpster and Himself's car ( Read more... )

I am having a very, very hard time believing that Thanksgiving is eleven days from now. I mean I guess I can't say I can't believe it, but JFC, where has the time gone!? Yes yes--the days are long but the years are short. But this year, the months and weeks and days are also quite short. I have managed to schedule myself into a series of corners; ( Read more... )

( That sucked more than I thought it would. )

Himself is a government contractor who has been declared non-essential, so he's home and not getting paid for the duration of John Boehner's current bout of dickfacery. I am barred from my office for arcane who's-paying-whom reasons but will be able to work from home, and will be paid, through the shutdown. So our mood this morning was Not Good ( Read more... )

There has not been anything I have liked so far about the management company the owners of our house chose to handle it for them ( Read more... )

I have made a deposit to get the movers to come move our stuff!

By three weeks from today the moving should be finished and Himself and myself should be living in our new place!

Aaaaaa!

So the people who own the Friedrich house decided to go with a couple who were first to respond to their ad, which - since it's what I wish the people who own the original OMG HOUSE had done - I can't really argue with ( Read more... )

I don't think we are going to want BUT WAIT HOUSE; the manager got quotes and is talking to the owner about options to have it rigged for a/c, but without cooling Himself feels his computers can't live there, no matter what we decide about ourselves ( Read more... )