I booked my trip to Washington, D.C. yesterday.  Holy expensive, America.  I'll be flying into Ronald Reagan airport and staying at a Marriott close to the conference headquarters in a room I'm sharing with my boss, who is pretty cool and fun.  Although it does mean I'll have to wear pants and act professional.  I'd better squeeze a lot of learning ( Read more... )

I'm such a pussy.  We took Archie to the vet today.  He cottoned on that something was afoot when he spotted me cutting up an old blanket - I put it in the carrier to make him more comfortable.  mr_pugh  tried to scoop him up for the box and Archie tore him open in several places trying to leap to freedom.  The poor bastard.  He howled in pain (mr_pugh , not ( Read more... )

This week has been hectic for me. I feel as if I'm frantically juggling a dozen responsibilities and at any moment they might collapse. I'm especially paranoid about forgetting something I've committed to doing. I'm writing everything down when I can, to reduce my mental load, but this also means I'm lugging a lot of paper around.

Good things: ( Read more... )

I've done a lot of juggling to get my September/October errands done, but it's almost over now. Soon my tuition, health insurance and bills will be paid, and I can stop stressing about them. I hate that aspect of this time of year. there's a dozen little bills to pay and papers to file ( Read more... )

Getting things done makes me feel good. Letter off to tax folks - done. Letter to Equifax, updating and correcting my information - done. Plants watered. Dentist paid - done. Large mastercard pill paid - done ( Read more... )

Also, I have received a bill from the National Student Loan centre for $.60.  Yes, sixty cents.

I had a pass, so on Thursday I went to see the 40 Year Old Virgin.  It was amazingly funny.  I laughed so loudly that I was embarrassed, and then I laughed again.  On reflection, the movie may be a conservative plot to warp our values.  But if so, they're being really clever ( Read more... )

I've had a kind of sucky day. I got an email that said the president of the school wanted to meet with us, so because the meeting was in ten minutes I had to leave in a hurry. The meeting was pointless. I spent several hours at regis doing school things, including a meeting of academic council. So I didn't get to see much of Mr. Pugh before he ( Read more... )

I watched two similar but excellent films last night. One was Confidence, with Ed Burns, Rachel Weis, and Dustin Hoffman. The other was The Good Thief, with Nick Nolte. This appears to be a remake of Bob le Flambeur. I enjoyed them both ( Read more... )

Today has been good thus far. I got up fairly early, after having had a good sleep. I studied German verbs, reviewing the active and passive verbs and moving forward into modal verbs. That's going well. I did the dishes and remembered to eat something ( Read more... )