Today was the first day of my new job. It went well, though most of it was spent finishing up tasks for my old job, cleaning out my inbox, arranging for supplies, etc. A general cleaning-out, emptying, in preparation for the tasks that will soon be heaped upon my shoulders. I've got a couple more training modules to run, and I'd like to go ( Read more... )

...is one of those songs that you hear in bits and pieces, "quoted" and riffed upon in film and TV and cartoons. Less often is it heard in its entirety. It's like the musical version of Casablanca: the first time I saw that movie, the vast majority of its lines were already well-worn and familiar to me, so long have they been in the pop-cultural ( Read more... )

Wow, it's been almost a month since I posted, and what a month! I'm going to give the condensed version ( Read more... )

So's the other day, Saturday, I'm at this party, see, and there's two grand pianos sittin' in the hosts' living room (she's a piano teacher), and this kid their son starts playin' this piece, and it jes' blows me away! Music that just grabbed onto me, I thought if I weren't holdin' onter somethin' I'd plum fall over backwards-like! Intense. Just ( Read more... )

So there was always a part of me that wanted to see 'Reign of Fire.' I wanted to see dragons, darn it! And dragons in a post-apocalyptic world sounded even more like a recipe for awesome. But after hearing fairly negative reviews, I stayed away. All the same, I was still curious ( Read more... )

I meant to post about this earlier, but last Saturday my church choir had its annual Christmas party, and it was fabulous :) A few hours before the party, my friend Grace came over and we baked chocolate chip cookies (the ready-made-dough variety, which has always been my favorite). Surprisingly, we managed to bake a whole small tub of dough, and ( Read more... )

Well, this was an update I meant to do Friday at the earliest, but this is the first time I've really had the free time to spare and been awake enough. Not that I couldn't use a couple more hours of sleep, BUT I'm more awake than I was on Friday and most of Saturday. Yeah, last week was a bit of a killer--I was convalescing (or trying to), but ( Read more... )

Sometimes, in this room ( Read more... )

So yeah, it's been a busy month, but I finally made the time to sit down and finish writing about the Decemberists concert I attended a couple of weeks ago (specifically, the 14th of August, one day after my birthday). I put this behind a cut, because I love my friends and this is long. You have been warned!

( Singing, ooooh, the hazards of love! )

Well, I thought I'd post to give people an update on the job situation. I'm in that nervous job-is-ending state, but actually pretty optimistic, overall. The temp service has a couple of good possible positions lined up for me, and I've been applying to various full-time jobs, and been in contact with my HR manager, who's been super nice. And my ( Read more... )