I totally fell apart at Ben & Jerry's with Shannon tonight. I just feel like I've had nearly 2 years of shit, and I never get a good chance to get mty feet under me before the next shit storm hits me ( Read more... )

Today I had an appointment to tutor Marisha at the library ... and she once again did not show up. This is ridiculous! When she was 15 minutes late this afternoon, I texted her to ask what was up, and she replied that she was running late. I asked her, "How long?" and she replied, "10 minutes." Half an hour later, I gave up and texted her that I ( Read more... )

Well, first the big news: We've decided not to put Cobweb to sleep tomorrow. Instead, I am going to have a serious, pragmatic discussion with our vet about how to make that difficult and irreversible decision. The situation -- Cobweb's health and behavioral issues -- hasn't changed, but we didn't want to be hasty and regret it later. We want to ( Read more... )

Literacy tutor training today, and it was lots of fun. Kinda like school, and I've always loved school. I don't understand, though, why all the paperwork and verbal announcements clearly stated that today's training would be 10-4 ... and then the "trainer" (heh ... when I lived in Britain, this would have meant a kind of shoe) rather determinedly ( Read more... )

I'm a big list writer, and I recently decided that the million gazillion little pieces of paper scattered around my desk were driving me crazy, so I've put them all in a paperless form, here in one journal entry, which is almost certainly of interest to no one but me. I'm not going to lj-cut it, since I want it to be easily accessible when I look ( Read more... )

Just in the last couple days, I've started using OverDrive to download and play audiobooks on my iPhone, and I am so so so impressed! I can easily download quite a few recent and classic novels from our library, though many of them are sadly only available in a file format that only works on a PC ( Read more... )

Yesterday I started off with brunch with Lisa. She was heading off to a pumpkin carving party in SF in the afternoon, so we weren't doing our usual hours and hours of hanging out, but we still had time for some quality dining and chat. One of the things we ended up talking about was a Halloween costume I'm planning out for myself: "Writing Woman." ( Read more... )

Today ( Read more... )

I just finished a list of cool free or cheap Bay Area stuff for another purpose, but then I thought I would post it here in my LJ, too, so that local folks might take advantage ... and maybe even suggest additional stuff so I can add it to the list!

( Free or Cheap Stuff in the Bay Area )

I decided that my "Books I Want to Read" list needed to be better organized, so that the nonfiction books were sorted by topic. I also added some more books. Because there are always more good books out there that need to be read.

( About a gazillion books I want to read )