So I met up with my parents to visit my grandmother and walked in juuuuuuuust as my dad was running completely out of patience showing her how to work her new computer.  Which is how I got an angry finger pointed at me and a "YOU help her sign up to Facebook."  She doesn't want to post, just to see other people's pictures, so I showed her how to ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas, all!  Whether you celebrated or not, I hope you had a good one.  If I may brag a little, behold my three favorite Christmas presents:


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Visited prison today, and it was... not much to write home about.  It was a minimum-security, faith-based prison (the class was Faith-Based Programs in Criminal Justice), and we didn't actually talk to any of the inmates, mostly just the chaplain and a few guards.  Still, we had to wait quite a while to be cleared to go in (even though we weren't ( Read more... )

Got pulled out of philosophy tutoring to help the writing people today, and turducken was the conversation piece of the day.  At first I thought it was because one of my fellow writing tutors, who is not generally known for being ditzy or anything, allegedly believed a turducken to be an actual hybrid animal.  Then, during a rare break in the ( Read more... )

A) Is there a way to disable anonymous commenting on individual posts?  I found how to do it for my entire journal, and I can screen anon comments, but I can't figure out how to disable them on individual posts.  Of course, all that will probably do is send the spam to another post, but I'd at least like to know if it's possible ( Read more... )

So I've had really good luck with bosses in my... let's be overly generous and call it a "career."  Even at the soul-sucking law firm job, my boss left me alone to do my work and wished me well when I quit.  Anyway, luckily enough, this trend has continued at the tutoring center, and the woman who oversees all the humanities tutoring (including ( Read more... )

Did my deviance field experiment today -- it consisted of wearing a cheesehead hat to the mall (note: I am not in any way affiliated with the Green Bay Packers; I simply like cheese, remarked upon the fact that if I had one of those sweet Green Bay cheese hats I would wear it, and was promptly gifted said hat by my sister for Christmas).  That was ( Read more... )

...and other miscellaneous bits as well.  I shan't presume.

E-book and book book


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Had a long-ish drive tonight, which I used to reacquaint myself with my love for The Decemberists.  When I got to "The Landlord's Daughter" (the middle third of that really long song on The Crane Wife), just at the part where the tempo picks up, a HUGE flash of heat lightning lit up the whole sky in front of me.  I got the shivers.

...that's all.

First yoga class in over a month.  I expect to be suffering tomorrow ( Read more... )