ok, maybe not exactly. but we did book our tickets! it's not the most responsible thing to do right about now, but i can somehow manage to justify it to myself (easy: free lodging!). it will be quite fun ( Read more... )

speaking of friends flung to all corners of the globe, we've got a friend who's in amsterdam for awhile, and he might not mind having houseguests! we are definitely considering it. the lodging is usually the most expensive part of a trip like this, and that will cost nothing. with plane tickets being fairly inexpensive, and him liking to cook as ( Read more... )

this design will do for now. it's not ideal, but it's simple and modern. must remind myself that my lj design is not (at the moment) someplace i want to lose whole hours of my day. which brings me to lj itself ( Read more... )

there is such a thing as a free lunch. sort of. you may not pay on the spot, but you do pay; somehow, some way... you pay ( Read more... )

d had some good things today - a phone interview that went well, and a new contact with excellent potential. after some of the talks we had last night (about how things are going, and how we feel about it [not good]), we needed these today ( Read more... )

friend k called and said that we had plans to go get ice cream. see, i was supposed to know about these plans, even though we hadn't made them yet. that was ok by me, though, because i needed the break (and apparently i didn't miss anything at the event d went to without me). i caught her up on my work issues, my health issues... and she caught me ( Read more... )

from the department level, to the group level, to the individual level... it all sucked today. people want it right, but then they just want it done. ah, but those are two different things ( Read more... )

have been m.i.a. because this workweek should've been fired on monday morning. luckily it's just the work itself, not any particular people. this has been possibly one of the most stressful workweeks ever, not even counting everything else that's going on. in fact, if everything else WASN'T going on, i probably would've blown my stack long ago ( Read more... )

house is as clean as it's going to get. visitors arrive tomorrow after work; i'll have to leave a tad early to get them. the weekend went too fast, as it always does. i wanted to watch either quarterlife or jane austen tonight, and found that neither one is really on.

just wrote a letter to mgr. about job-related stuff. i think they're redoing the levels and titles, and i currently have a title that doesn't reflect my level. i told her that when things are redone, i would like this fixed. i was extermely nice about it, explained it as clearly as possible without going on ad nauseum; however, i'm afraid she'll ( Read more... )