Chatting right now with Monty. My status in Gtalk reads 「病気」。

SFIDA: Hola

MONTY: Hi. Are you unwell again?

SFIDA: Sinus infection

MONTY: Ach

SFIDA: I'm on my second round of antibiotics

MONTY: No fun

SFIDA: Well, I did get to take a couple of days off from work. I mentioned it online, but I seem to have scared you away from my journal ( Read more... )

Bears! Oh, my. Not one of the more endearing teddies I've ever seen, I must say. And that was before I saw what it was made of.

Eeew.

Important question: WHY?

Mostly, though, I was just not willing to pass up the opportunity to use this tag again.

Whatever hell-spawned infection I came down with has gotten worse in the last day. Accordingly, staying home from work. The extra four hours of sleep should've helped ( Read more... )

There are some things in this world that just never would have occurred to me. But apparently, one of those things has occurred to someone else, and with enough frequency to write a whole book devoted to it.

OMG.

I discovered this linked from a blog I read.

OMG.

Lines from the end of Ian's most recent song have begun popping into my head ( Read more... )

First, some background for those of you not familiar: a brief description of what a 401(k) is.

As promised, Mitsu, here is some advice about finances. I think it's actually a fairly sound principle.

Ok, so, this week, I sent a draft of a white paper to a coworker, for her to review. She came back to me, and suggested that I might want to change the wording in a part of one of the discussions of a hypothetical case to not include the words "flowing heavily" in reference to a pipeline. She said that it didn't sound like I was talking about ( Read more... )

I happen to like eel. Not terribly friendly creatures, and usually ill-tempered, so I don't usually feel too bad about eating them. That's convenient, because eel is delicious ( Read more... )

I profoundly understand the meaning of 悩み。 It's one of those concepts that, when I try and describe what I'm feeling to myself, will come out in Japanese rather than English simply because it so concisely captures the actuality of what I'm feeling at the time, in a way that the equivalent English words can't quite. 悩み is usually translated as " ( Read more... )

I have a friend who works at J.Crew. Earlier this week, I went by to see her, and while she was attending a customer, I was talking with one of the guys in there. (Despite the fact that I've never bought anything for myself in there, I'm there pretty frequently running errands for The Maternal Unit. I work, like, two minutes away from it, so it's ( Read more... )