today is a 09:30-20:00 day, tomorrow is a 09:30-23:00 day, Wednesday is do-my-taxes-and-then-have-rehearsals-until-22:00 day, Thursday is a 09:30-17:00 but then socializing from 17:30-22:00 day ( Read more... )

So from Thursday to today (Saturday, i know it's past midnight) I adjudicated with the Worldstrides Heritage Festival in Nashville, and the following fortunate events happened ( Read more... )

a couple of weeks ago, i got a parking citation for being in a spot for longer than two hours in a two-hour zone when i had actually left for lunch and come back to the same spot. It felt worth a trip to downtown to try to dispute it. I took the day off today to take care of a bunch of errands in preparation for the drumline party tonight and ( Read more... )

on friday night i played cards until roughly 03:30, meaning that i missed the last street car before they started up again at 05:30. i didn't feel like continuing to play cards, so i left and decided to walk home. grabbing a taxi would have been easy, but i'm trying to get a bunch of walking in, my apartment is roughly three miles away, so i ( Read more... )

mardi gras is now officially over for me. and boy was that last parade memorable. not in a good way exactly because it was pretty much 35 degrees and raining the entire time - i haven't felt that sort of miserable cold in a long long time. but in a good way because my drums (and the whole band) did an awesome job. when i first started here, the ( Read more... )

The past week or so has been kind of a blur. Not necessarily because it's been super busy, but because there's a lot of new things happening at random times and work has hit somewhat of a routine that i don't have good markers for days of the week anymore.

highlights include the following:

1. Yesterday, Tulane won our football game against ( Read more... )

There are two bars that Mark and i go to after work sometimes to catch a drink - Finns is the more recent one and has become one of my favorite bars. Roberts is where we used to go to, and for variety sake because we've been to Finns a lot lately, we went to Roberts for the first time in a while.

Roberts is a drinkers bar - there's a pool table ( Read more... )

i've asked a couple of friends their opinions about this, i thought i might as well put it out for greater public consumption.

in may i moved to a new apartment. I've talked about it before, but as a recap: apartment is connected to a house where the landlord and landlady live, Danny and Caylie, a couple in their mid-20s or so. They are huge ( Read more... )

I played poker last night. The intention was to stop playing at 02:30 so that i could grab something to eat and then catch the last streetcar which was scheduled for 03:15 - the next street car after that wouldn't be until 05:45ish and i didn't want to make last night an all-nighter like i had the previous two weekends.

it was still tempting to ( Read more... )

recently i changed how i set up Padmapper email alerts so that i could manage the data better. Basically, i created new "capture areas" and had them sent to different mendellee.com email addresses - mendel.uptown, mendel.gardendistrict, mendel.midcity, mendel.blackpearl, &c, and then gave each of those unique gmail labels with unique colors. I ( Read more... )