Earlier today, I stopped at a store, picked up a few random things, and was waiting in line at the teller.  While I was paying for my items, I noticed a woman and her daughter behind me; they were both pointing to the garden stakes I'd bought, which were on the counter.  The lady realizes I've noticed them and said ( Read more... )

I actually returned home from vacation stupidly late on Wednesday, which means, once again, the getting-to and getting-from the destination is the worst part of the entire trip, while the trip itself was quite lovely.  I did no writing, got a lot of reading done, accidentally came up with two fully-fleshed out ideas for two more books, have a half- ( Read more... )

So, another conversation, in lieu of actual content, because I don't seem to have the brainpower for anything more -- it's been one of those days, starting with going to the gym only to realize after the workout and shower that I didn't actually pack a bra, and had to drive back home before going to work, then going downhill from there ( Read more... )

So the spouse has a Friday tradition where he goes out with his buddies to the bar, where they commiserate over their workweek, and doesn't come home until about 7 PM, which means I get hours of quiet, uninterrupted writing time that I usually spoil somehow by watching TV.  The point is, he's a very considerate man who definitely doesn't sacrifice ( Read more... )

I promise I didn't disappear again, I've just been busy, and getting lost in a research spiral, but, hey, a conversation!

One of our short-term contract staff members, a lovely young woman, got a job offer somewhere else.  She's of course taking the job.  The catch?  It's not even in her field.  They want her to teach coding.

She's very up front ( Read more... )

Now that I'm certified plague-free and have stopped leaving behind my lungs after climbing the stairs, I'm able to go back to the gym.  I took it easy today, because it's been a while, and I'm not stupid -- working out to the same level as before pretty much equals I can't move my legs the next morning.

Regardless, I made a grave miscalculation.  I ( Read more... )

Hi!  Hi again.  Okay, two for two, two days in a row, let's hope all those copper pennies in the fuse box hold out for a little longer.  Turns out it's a stone age-era fuse box needing lightning-fused sand blobby-headed fuses from the shop, but $0.10 in change I should've turned over to the bank when they stopped making pennies, some aluminum foil ( Read more... )

So, because I'm a limping thing that limps from a resurgence of an old injury no one can figure out how to fix, it's not that much of a stretch to see how I managed to knock off all of the Spouse's papers from the coffee table on my way to the kitchen, even with as much space as we have in the living room.

Spouse: You knocked over all my papers.

Me ( ( Read more... )

It's sad but true -- I'm just too busy at work to take breaks or even spend more than a few minutes with people to talk about anything other than work.  For that reason, a lot of people, even the ones who have been there nearly as long as I have, have absolutely no idea what I'm really like.  In particular: I'm really fucking inappropriate.

One of ( Read more... )

I'm at my desk where I hate to be (I'd rather be in the lab), writing up a report on a Thing I Did that needs to be officially documented with all sort of statistical bells and whistles before I can write the paper for publication submission in September.  In other words, my brain is simultaneously in Just push through it, you'll finish it and Fuck ( Read more... )