I'm leaving for India on Wednesday morning, so life is a flurry. I'll be gone till the 3rd. My team is really excited to see me, and have apparently planned many an adventure for my stay there -- including white water rafting down the ganges in Rishikesh. I'm also going to hit up the Taj Mahal, and try to get some sort of Ayurvedic massage ( Read more... )

• My dad and sister came into town.  We had a good time and went up to NYC, where we had more good times.  Tim and my dad got along pretty well, so yay.
• New hires started on April 28, and have finally settled into their positions enough that I actually feel like I'm fully staffed.
• I turned 30.  Had a nice, sedate, dare-I-say "adult" send off to my ( Read more... )

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I had a minor giggle fit in a meeting yesterday morning that accompanied a minor epiphany about human interaction... We were in meeting with this dude D. who is basically the IT head of my company's project to migrate web platforms. I've worked with him quite a bit on various related projects, i.e. our sucky survey platform, so he knows me fairly ( Read more... )

It's unfortunate that I only feel impetus to really write when I feel blue, because the fact of the matter is that these are the times I'd really like to get down for posterity ( Read more... )

The epitome of salient news right here.Speaking of news, I just received word from my research contact that I will be taking over the newsletter process for my program in its' entirety... This is a rather interesting development; I've never worked in a research capacity for the firm at all and have very little knowledge of the topics surrounding ( Read more... )

I actually made it to work on time today, and have been wasting time tooling around on the intarweb since then. Way to start the new year off on the right foot ( Read more... )

Weekend was good. And sad. But mostly good.

Friday we had the farewell happy hour for my boss D. I really didn't realize how much I enjoyed his presence till just then, when I knew he was off for good. It makes me quite sad.

Saturday aniika and I went to Rock Creek park and wandered around mulch piles and dilapidated lamp posts that made us feel ( Read more... )