Oh look, it's October 1st. Back to work. 

I'd been swearing up and down that in September, I'd start setting my alarm so when it was time to go back to work on the first of October, I'd be ready and not cranky and dragging and otherwise not a happy camper. So, today I started. I've been up for an hour and a half, did all the morning routine: shower, food/caffiene, read AM stuff (comics/ ( Read more... )

Quoted from Dear Abby:

She may forbid her husband from seeing you -- and who could blame her? After all, you have been having unprotected sex with her spouse.
Heeehehehehehehee. Understatement of the year.
Context: A single woman has 3 children by the same man. The second two were born after he married someone else. This generation Abby really is ( Read more... )

I've used too many spoons in the past few days. And on stupid shit, like waiting in airports and sitting in planes, and shifting time zones. However, I got through my luncheon with church people. Of several types, not just the type that employ me, so I had to retool everything I said to make sure the Catholics and so forth didn't wish they'd found ( Read more... )

I just realised today is exactly the half way mark in my sabbatical.
Stuff done-

Caught mono
Went to Ohio and saw both halves of my legal and blood families. Twas a good visit, even!
Made several Jayne hats (hm... should put one on Etsy to see if it sells)
Made my 2nd-4th Etsy sales, all to the same person and the latter 2 commissioned.
Did much ( Read more... )

As part of my sabbatical, I have decided to (finally) catalog all my books of the books in the house. I discovered today that LibraryThing has a limit of 200 titles for their free account. I chose to give them the princely sum of 25 bucks for a lifetime membership. (It was 10 for the year- seemed a no brainer)
I had not quite grokked that when I use ( Read more... )

A good indication of how it went was that at 5 when the class ended, I could have continued on in that overly chilled concrete block room. The instructor was energetic and interesting for the entire day. She clearly passed on some useful info, as I want to now pick apart every conversation I hear and all the ones in my head. I'm sure that's a good ( Read more... )

Yesterday, as part of my sabbatical professional development/ prep for teaching, I attended TDC's workshop on group/meeting facilitiation presented by Peg Kelly of Facilitation Plus. I was really impressed and learned a lot for a half day class. So if you are someone who has to deal with setting up meetings that usually don't end up being as ( Read more... )

I have no idea when I'm going to stop alerting the world that I've sold stuff there. However, I look forward to the moment where this becomes a possibility. If nothing else, this is a noteworthy sale because this time no idea who the purchaser is. I think this is a first. Heehee!  Tin in question.
In other news, My internal clock is 2 hours slow. K ( Read more... )

I've been given the packet of papers for teaching continuing ed. The contracty ones saying: you'll teach this, we'll pay you this. Please produce something useful by some date not that far in the future for the web site and all this proves we're flying under the assumption you know what you're doing. Hah! Um, not so much! The first deadline is in ( Read more... )