The bad: My friend with the new baby is still in the hospital, and it's looking like she's going to be recovering for a very long time. Her heart, liver, and kidneys are all malfunctioning, and some of the problems are interfering with the treatments for other problems ( Read more... )

The forward slash has many legitimate uses in the English language. The same is true for the dash and the hyphen.

What none of them can be used for is a substitute for a period. When you do this, it makes your writing nearly incomprehensible. This is a problem when you are telling us why we need to give you money.

Also: PRINT. Typing would be ( Read more... )

For some reason I've been thinking a lot lately about one of the major messages from Louisa May Alcott's book Little Women and its sequels. The message is basically that you need to find a balance in life between work and play, and it's most clearly expressed in Chapter 11 - Experiments. Here's what I see as the money quote, from the very end of ( Read more... )

It would be a little tacky to look at job postings on Craigslist while I'm at work, right?

I'm still tempted.

I really hope today isn't setting a trend for the year.

I am:
- exhausted
- freezing
- sick
- ready to go home

Work has decided to start blocking Facebook. I'm not even sure if this is going to cross-post properly.

Very annoying.

I have tomorrow off from work. I did not ask for the day off, and resent being told I have to use vacation time for it. As much as I dislike "use it or lose it" policies, I think it would annoy me less than this policy of "some people are letting too much vacation time accumulate, so everybody has to use two days worth on days that we choose ( Read more... )

Next Friday, work is encourging everybody to wear a jersey from their favorite sports team.

I debating between an MSU shirt, a Pennsic University shirt, and a Transylvania Polygnostic shirt (again, I'd probably have to make one ( Read more... )

Give me a category (a given author, a band, a type of book or music, things that start with the letter z, whatever else you can come up with) and I'll tell you my five favorite things in that category.

I'm staying at work late today, to make up for time lost to bad weather and car problems. My plan is to leave at 6:30 or when I run out of forms to work on, whichever comes first ( Read more... )