Because the original immigration officer who handled my case was a fuckhead, and misspelled my name on my green card, they refused to fingerprint me for INS ( Read more... )

3:55 PM, and my inbox is completely EMPTY! Better yet, there are only 9 items waiting in the "@ACTION" folder!

Of course, that will no longer be the case on Monday... but damn, the feeling is good while it lasts!

Now all I have to do is go get Catri her birthday present and I can head for home.

Stolen from chorus, in an attempt to take a break from work.

( Here there be TMIs.... )

I've been off work for almost two weeks -- asthma, depression, and some sort of bacterial nastiness that settled right into the lungs. I finally got back last Thrursday, and figured I'd need to come in on the weekend to deal with the email backlog ( Read more... )

Lesson #1: Drop ceiling tiles break ( Read more... )

I had an asthma attack one day when I was a kid -- I was about 9, I think.

It was in Feodosiya, and the surf was so filled with long strands of seaweed that swimming was almost impossible, and the sea was the color of warm potato soup... and at night the air from the salt marshes curled in and took me by the throat. That's beside the point, ( Read more... )

Dear Muse:

In re: my order of yesterday, there seems to have been a mistake in shipping.

Instead of the elaboration on setting I ordered, I seem to have received an almost-complete Harry Potter fanfic. Why I was the recipient of said fanfic I'm not too sure, since I don't *do* fanfic, I've never done fanfic, and I'm not interested in touching ( Read more... )

There is one thing that's happened to me in the past year and a half ( Read more... )

The good news is that the long inactivity does not, in fact, mean I'm deceased.

The bad news is that I can't possibly summarize a year and a half of inactivity in a post. So I'm just not going to bother. :)

From the latest update from the Stupid Software Company (tm):

"... Starting the Web Server requires a connection to an X11 server. If it is the console, the X11 window on the console must stay open or the Web Server will stop."

Say WHAT?