So, I found out this morning that my first assignment with the new job is gonna be in Houston, albeit only for a week. They've got me a rental car and I'm gonna drive it down there Monday. (I'm already trying to decide which toys to pack.) Need to wrap up the writing project before then, though it was made much easier by the fact that they're only ( Read more... )

Had the interview at the research place, and holy fuck. It was the jankiest place I've ever interviewed, including the time I unknowingly walked into a group interview for a pyramid scheme. They were seeing patients in a storage room behind part of a cubicle and a rooms-to-go standing divider. The interviewer was laser-focused on recruitment, ( Read more... )

I woke up with no voice, went to work, got dizzy and left at like 9:30, acquired a humidifier and a megafrickton of cough drops, and I've spent most of the day playing Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, which is how you know I'm sick. I never touch my DS unless I cannot leave my bed for longer than three minutes ( Read more... )

I woke up three times in the night because I was too hot, and a fourth because I was too cold. I got nearly everything on my Christmas list and even a few things I didn't know I'd get. We played our new Mario Kart most of the afternoon, I was introduced to Hamilton over vinyl cleaning and embroidery, and we had ham and casseroles for dinner ( Read more... )

I think it might be the closeness to the holidays that struck this up, but I am homesick in ways I can't describe. My previous plans for a birthday gift have collapsed, and now what has been done can be undone, so for now I'm content to let the melatonin pull me under ( Read more... )

I played ME1 for so long yesterday, I am actually dreading the number of side quests I'm going to find when I open up the game again. I did Feros, Noveria, and Therum - in that order, because I've never gotten the dialogue where Liara thinks you're a hallucination. It's hilarious, as well as goddamn adorable, but I don't think I'll do that for ( Read more... )

I'm not gonna talk about all the shit that happened today other than to say FUCK September and the shit it tries to pull on me at the last goddamn minute. Anyway, moving on ( Read more... )

My enthusiasm for socialization didn't last long. I woke up in absolutely no mood for any of it, as is usually the case. I don't even need to drink to get hung over. All I need to do is get sufficiently enthusiastic about the idea of doing something fun and outgoing, and I wake up feeling completely wiped out like NOPE. I did end up getting a ( Read more... )

My plan went off mostly without a hitch, and I spent at least ten dollars on the Addam's Family pinball machine at the arcade, despite it having a lower left flipper that tended to jam. I did this for two reasons, one of which is that pinball and The Addam's Family are two of the things I love the most and talk about the least, and partly (to my ( Read more... )

What happens when you become nocturnal in response to your 7PM-7AM work schedule

The world seems a lot quieter. There’s no traffic to worry about unless you stay out too late and the world starts waking up. You can’t go out walking until the sun rises, though, and then all the morning runners are out.

You become very familiar with the Walmarts near ( Read more... )