I saw the ballet last night with my mother. It was an enjoyable evening. I don't think I've been to the ballet since the Nutcracker sophomore year of college. I hadn't seen OBT since I was a child. I remember it, though: my mother made me wear a blue jumper. It was the least dress-like thing I could argue for. I argued about it a lot. They would ( Read more... )

My mother applied to go on one of three educational trips through some program that takes teachers and school admin to various places around the world and teaches them about those places, and she got in. Her college will pay for everything the program doesn't, so it will be two weeks in China for free except some of the dinners. She'll probably go ( Read more... )

The days are flying by lately.

My vision is still great. I'm done with my antibiotic eye drops and happy as can be. I think I can see better than ever while cycling in the rain.

I saw The Kite Runner with my mother. Sad as can be, but not nearly as miserable as the novel. After I finish a few happier books, I'll read A Thousand Splendid Suns. I ( Read more... )

I'm feeling better financially, at least in terms of the future. I did a preliminary version of my taxes, or enough of them to enable me to submit my FAFSA. I should be getting a sizable tax refund, once I get around to actually sending them in. All the FAFSA will do is allow the government to laugh at me and volunteer up its piddling loans. I'm ( Read more... )

Bit of a whirlwind lately ( Read more... )

I just realized that my dinner outing tomorrow could be construed as a date. I'd better not let that happen. No way, no how. How do I keep getting myself into these messes ( Read more... )

I've been ridiculously busy due to my getting into that emergency medical technician course and not quitting my job yet, and deciding to apply to medical school again this year hasn't helped free up any time. Bullets it is. ( Verbose bullets. )

Just posting to celebrate legal matters, I suppose ( Read more... )

The weather was a toss-up this morning. I finally decided that it was raining snow, but I never worked out how the hail fit in. Surprisingly, I enjoyed my bike ride very much. I got to work swiftly; either I tried to get out of the precipitation after an acute case of Sodden Groin or the chill iced my thighs enough that I didn't notice how hard ( Read more... )

Portlanders, especially a good many east-siders, are in a tizzy over the cost of the recently-built aerial tram connecting Oregon Health & Science University's Marquam Hill campus with its Waterfront campus (much of which has yet to be built). The 2004 project estimates didn't come close to the final cost of the tram (...duh), sparking the first ( Read more... )