Well, I asked and was gifted: the Austin Municipal Court rescheduled my court appearance for the 14th of July. So I don't have to spend half of my birthday dealing with traffic court, which is awesome.

Birthday plans continue apace--if you live local to Austin and want to come, the party is at Mr Tramps on July 10 from 7-9. Presents totally optional ( Read more... )

Awakened at 3:30 am in order to make a 6:15 flight. Did so without incident. I upgraded to a seat with more legroom to accommodate the brace, and boy was I glad to have it!m ( Read more... )

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I have done more walking these last few days than I have done in months and months--the problem with living a pretty sedentary suburban lifestyle and visiting a walking city like San Francisco. Yesterday, I dropped off my luggage at the hostel and then spent the day running about, buying books and other things. I crashed and burned about 10 pm--not ( Read more... )

I managed to leave my wallet, with all my ID, credit cards, and cash, on the floor of the jewelry classroom tonight. Thank whatever that I needed to transfer it to my traveling purse--after I briefly panicked calmly searched the house and the car, I called campus police, made the 25-minute drive back to campus, and they met me there to let me in. ( Read more... )

My usual Memorial Day weekend trip--get up very early, fly somewhere, and work. :-)  This time it's Fanime Con in San Jose. Please come say hi if you live in the area!

Packing after a more expensive than normal trip to the Container Store (honestly I usually restrain myself by constantly reminding myself that I can get almost everything there at ( Read more... )