This week marks the beginning of a lot of back & forth switcheroo with my family's vehicular transport. When we last left our intrepid heroes (i.e., myself, Peire & little Rachel), we had traded in our two limping vehicles for a (single) shiny new 2009 Corrolla. Thank heavens both Peire & I work at the same job location! But now Peire is starting a ( Read more... )

This summer, I've been working (or not working) in stages. For a decent amount of June I was completely away from work on maternity leave. Then I did a work-from-home thing for all of June and a portion of the months on either side. Technically I started back to work at MSL full-time last Friday, but since Friday was a Volunteer Coordinator and ( Read more... )

Today I didn't have to go into work at MSL because I'd worked there on Monday -- so that left me free to participate in a Medieval Music concert at my middle school alma mater, Raa M.S. My good friend Rob Fleischmann was in charge of the event, since it was a cooperative thing between Raa (which is now an Arts/Theater Magnet School) and Tallahassee ( Read more... )

Today my computer (the only working computer in the house!) decided it was going to contract a nasty virus! So I'm paying my bills online from my parents' house -- I'm extremely put out about this, as one might guess ( Read more... )

Peire & I have returned from our journeying, although tomorrow after work we will be doing the work of laundry, cleanup and exhaustion recovery instead of going to dance practice. I am about to go to bed myself, and I greatly look forward to being finally in my own bedroom instead of in another hotel ( Read more... )

I'll tell you what outreach madness is -- today I had to go give a presentation at a local high school (your alma mater, countessaleska! Leon High!) on "Daily Life in a Spanish Colony on the Florida Frontier. Madness is trying to bring a long-barreled musket into a public high school while dressed in funny clothes at 9:11am on September 11th. I got in, but after ( Read more... )

Since last Monday was Labor Day and many businesses were closed (banks, particularly), today has been an especially harried day for getting stuff done. But I'm glad to say that due to my efforts this afternoon, the utilities will remain on, as will my telephone & internet service. All good things!

( Preparations for a road trip next week )

Today after work, my parents, Peire & I had dinner at Lucy Ho's Oriental Bistro because they're running their 38th Anniversary Special (which means that certain items on their menu are significantly discounted) -- the special goes through Wednesday, so if you're able to do so, I heartily recommend that you take advantage of it. I've not been to ( Read more... )

Still waiting for Fay...although it looks likely that we'll get the rain today. While at work. Wheeeee!

And in the meantime, I took this nerd test:



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So, here I am at FSU's Strozier Library -- Peire is doing research into 13th century Languedoc and wine merchanting. I'm ostensibly doing research into costuming for Macbeth, but as you can see...here I am typing into LJ instead. But I've not been entirely unproductive. Not only did I copy out a bunch of recipes from the Vegetarian Times Cookbook ( ( Read more... )