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I have just over 2,000 words on my MTYG story and the second main character just showed up. *gives story stink eye* I need you finished today, dude. Get with the program.
On normal years, we'd be done with school by now and on Christmas break. Thanks to the collective (non)wisdom of TPTB, we have to go two half-days next week, when many kids will fail to show up even though they have 9 weeks' tests to take. Which creates a logistical nightmare for teachers who have to finalize grades before the kids ever come back after the break. *headdesk*
I have gotten back into the time suck that is Farmville (and Cityville) on Facebook. It's fun, but good lord can you spend every waking minute on it if you're not careful. (If anyone's playing either one and needs neighbors, you can friend me on FB if you know my real name, or PM me here and I'll tell you my real name. Which probably wouldn't be hard to figure out anyway, but I'm still not going to post it directly on this LJ because I *like* griping about my job here sometimes. See above paragraph for an example.)
Christmas decorations are all up, aside from a centerpiece for the table and the occasional tweaking--and maybe my Christmas village if I can get it to fit on a shelf. This is the first time I've decorated in 4-5 years aside from a mini tree, and I'm amazed at how much I enjoyed it. We even have lights liek woah outside. The tree is proving a source of amusement for Jennie-the-Menace, one of the main reasons that I haven't decorated in the past five years (how can she be five? she was tiny enough to fit in my hand when I brought her home from the vet). At least she only bats at the ornaments, which steadily creep up the tree as we relocate them out of her reach. At least she hasn't tried to climb the tree. Yet.
(I'm also on DW. You can comment here or there. There are
comments on DW.)
On normal years, we'd be done with school by now and on Christmas break. Thanks to the collective (non)wisdom of TPTB, we have to go two half-days next week, when many kids will fail to show up even though they have 9 weeks' tests to take. Which creates a logistical nightmare for teachers who have to finalize grades before the kids ever come back after the break. *headdesk*
I have gotten back into the time suck that is Farmville (and Cityville) on Facebook. It's fun, but good lord can you spend every waking minute on it if you're not careful. (If anyone's playing either one and needs neighbors, you can friend me on FB if you know my real name, or PM me here and I'll tell you my real name. Which probably wouldn't be hard to figure out anyway, but I'm still not going to post it directly on this LJ because I *like* griping about my job here sometimes. See above paragraph for an example.)
Christmas decorations are all up, aside from a centerpiece for the table and the occasional tweaking--and maybe my Christmas village if I can get it to fit on a shelf. This is the first time I've decorated in 4-5 years aside from a mini tree, and I'm amazed at how much I enjoyed it. We even have lights liek woah outside. The tree is proving a source of amusement for Jennie-the-Menace, one of the main reasons that I haven't decorated in the past five years (how can she be five? she was tiny enough to fit in my hand when I brought her home from the vet). At least she only bats at the ornaments, which steadily creep up the tree as we relocate them out of her reach. At least she hasn't tried to climb the tree. Yet.
(I'm also on DW. You can comment here or there. There are
comments on DW.)