Chances of making it through this workday without tears, vanishing rapidly ( Read more... )

Tuition remission processed!

We owe UB $475 in fees for the semester. Multiply by seven expected semesters and that's still not even four thousand dollars for a masters degree.

And it comes as a perk of a job I enjoy?

Not going to get over how cool that is.

There was a bit where someone erroneously directed me to the sixth floor of an un-air-conditioned elevator-free building ten minutes before the class started, but after that it all went well ( Read more... )

It's amazing what a difference your job makes ( Read more... )

- New phone has arrived! I'll get it set up hopefully tomorrow, definitely before next week ( Read more... )

New guy at my bus stop this morning asked about the schedule, and we wound up talking most of the way to work. He's an addiction counselor at the hospital who's only been in Baltimore six months. He's tired of angry heroin addicts and paperwork, and likes the Ottobar and good beer. Seems like fun. I'm tempted to say 'like a nice kid' even though I ( Read more... )

It was Jason-moving weekend (a success, Jason lives in the apartment next door now) but somehow it turned into many other things as well ( Read more... )