So...yeah. Hi. I'm back. Sort of. Almost. Maybe? The past eight months have been a bit of a rollercoaster. The ride isn't over yet, but I may be ready let a little fresh air into my shell ( Read more... )

...so there is this thing called LJ that I seem to have completely forgotten about for the past few months.

Life in a nutshell:

Work: I've relocated, at least for the next couple of months, to the Capital Region to perform oversight on the Hudson River dredging. While it is interesting, the 12 hour days are taxing and all I've been able to scrape ( Read more... )

( I made a rule for that I would not whine on LJ. I suppose that I'm only partially breaking it by putting a short rant behind a cut... )

I can feel the rain in the air...I wish that it would hurry up and get here.

It's been horribly hot and humid all day, and I could really use some relief. The heat makes me think of work--relentless, oppressive, and taxing beyond reason when a deadline looms close overhead. That spell finally broke last Friday when the last of my submittals went ( Read more... )

Ever have days where you feel more like yourself than usual? Today was like that for me. I'm not sure if it was the time out in the sun, the productive time spent at the office, or the evening of dancing and good company. Maybe it was the balance of having all three. Whatever spurred the change,  I felt like a whole person today and not just the ( Read more... )

Been feeling very solitary lately, which is not healthy. So, in an effort to break out of the cycle ( Read more... )

Back home after a nearly two-week stint up north for the holidays. The crazy ruled work yet again in November/December, so I've been more remiss than usual in keeping up here. So, life in a nutshell:

~ December concert went quite well. If there are any fans of opera composed by Mozart and Weber out there in the NY-metro area who are up for a ( Read more... )

After spending a chunk of the afternoon in the weeds of transition, I got myself to the halfway point for nano this year.


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I have returned from that place known as the south...though I am happy to say that the typically red state I spent the past three weeks in went blue on election day ( Read more... )

Con Edison is repairing a gas line outside my window...rather loudly, I must say. But that is okay because...wait for it...I am on vacation for the next seven days! No work, no stressing about work, and no thinking about work until next Tuesday. A whole week of doing what I want to do when I want to do it and no one to tell me that I can't because ( Read more... )