So. The girls decided it'd be a good idea to ask our landlord to lower our rent, since about half of KK's students have done it successfully. They said that two of the girls are thinking of moving out due to job transfers and we'd need lower rent to get someone else into the rooms. This is halfway true: Candice is moving to a different location ( Read more... )

Rick is moving in with KK so they can start to save money for the baby. This will only last for three and a half months, so I hope we can put up with it. The other girls saw more of a problem in my insistence that we recycle than in another human being sharing our household. They also want to buy a bigger fridge. On the plus side we meddled ( Read more... )

went running again! I'm already stopping less- it also probably helped with motivation that I went laps around the whole park rather than the 2-minute mini-track. I need to get ready for work now, but K's in the shower. So I'm eating some granola that I bought on my trip to Sandymount. I'm also quite excited about the shower- the fixer guy came ( Read more... )

when the word count subtractions left me at 16604, I got this feeling like "I think it's done ( Read more... )

well, I think that's my coding finished. It's all in a big-ass Excel spreadsheet that I'm going to have to find some sort of way to print out. The intro is... being touched up in fits and starts. I can write the analysis in three days, yes? I have all of my data sorted so all I have to do is put it into prose, tie it together and explain why it ( Read more... )

scrapped going to the library in favor of devouring the ten library books that I have here. It's mostly working, but it's SLOW GOING! Boo. Also I'm 200 words away from Jeff's uppermost limit and I STILL have not touched the stuff on language attitudes (which is a third of the paper, number-of-headings-wise). Finally, I get to the too-many-words ( Read more... )

spent extra time with Kim in the lounge. She says if there's availability she can use her staff perks to get me and Jens into the Westin Paris for the staff price of $79 - yes, that's US dollars - a night. Doing a quick hostel comparison brings up prices the same or higher if you convert dollars to euro and split the cost. Hello, five-star Paris ( Read more... )

no reason to worry about the oracle. Some dude at the club asked me if I liked German guys. I laughed and said "they're okay," then he goes "my friend there is mad for you. He's German, he's mad for you." I went, "So's my boyfriend." Whoop ( Read more... )

Jens is in Germany til Tuesday. Today's his mom's birthday. And I've been getting work done. It's the first time I've been able to be productive since, oh, our second date. I know he won't be online, so I don't think about him all the time (just most of the time). Distraction, distraction of the most pleasant sort ( Read more... )

Tomorrow morning I get to bring a chair home on the DART. It'll be an experience. I'll probably take a taxi home from the station, though it's only an 8-minute walk. There's something about the indignity of wheeling an office chair through one's own neighborhood. I see these people all the time ( Read more... )