one of the benefits of posting my angst online is that I can look back on it and remember -- hey, yeah, I was feeling kinda irritated that day. hm ( Read more... )

wow. I never thought I'd type that ( Read more... )

( up, down. good, bad. happy, sad. )

I'm not dead, but I kind of wish all of the computers were ( Read more... )

somehow, we can go more than a week without getting any phone calls, and sometimes several weeks without getting any phone calls when we're home, but the one night I decided I wanted to work on remedying my sleep deficit and go to bed early is the one night we get a phone call in the evening ( Read more... )

more of the same, really ( Read more... )

**I have my annual performance review in 10 minutes. I can't think of any significant accomplishments to list on my self-evaluation except for "am still relatively sane ( Read more... )

yesterday, close to quittin' time, I got a phone call from the new head of the ob/gyn department, asking me about IRB. for those of you who don't have to worry about this stuff, IRB is for Internal Review Board, which is what researchers have to deal with whenever they have a research project that involves human subjects ( Read more... )

I have an Outlook calendar that I use at work, mostly to keep track of birthdays and other reminders, but there are meetings I occasionally have to attend and suchlike ( Read more... )

I'm currently at amazon.com looking at a book that was published in paperback in 2002 with an original list price of $15. at this point, the only copies available are used.

for $231.

for a 7-year-old paperback.