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... )

I finally succeeded in fixing my compass necklace (the one I bought on Etsy which fell apart literally within 10 minutes of my putting it on for the first time -- luckily, the seller refunded my money) and wore it out into the wide world for the first time today. Within 20 minutes of my leaving the house, two different people had come up to me to ( 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... )

Ie ie ie! I haven't written in days!

Monday: I have no memory of Monday. Did Monday even occur? Were you there? Can you prove it? Perhaps I blacked out, or someone time-traveled to make it so Monday never happened. I don't know.

Tuesday: Among other things, lunch with my friends Andrew and Katherine at Chef Jia's, a Chinese restaurant in San ( Read more... )

I puttered around this morning, then headed out to school, but I got soooooo sleepy that I decided to come home again. I'm running a week or so ahead of the other students in the class, anyway, so I just slept and slept for hours ( Read more... )