i could've updated tuesday but no
this morning i and a guy who was also waiting at my bus stop got a totally random ride to the t from a bus driver with the "out of service" sign on his bus. he was going that way anyway and because it was cold he picked us up. we were sworn to secrecy. it was actually really cute. the rest of the day was very quiet, tho. i wrote my piece for therealljidol during my copious free time. i don't know how much i love it, but i like it better than my first attempt.
so they posted my job at work, which means i can apply for it, so i did. (several people pointed out the listing in a "you should totally apply for this" kind of way.) they're taking applications until like the middle of january and i don't want to wait that long, but what can you do. at least two of the other admins are very much in my corner, by which i mean they have very strong feelings about the way temps are treated and think i should've been hired as an actual employee from the get-go. which is how i feel, what a coincidence. :D anyway, keep your fingers crossed.
a couple weeks ago (this is what happens when you never update >.< ) i got a project to take pictures of shelves in the storage annex as part of a machine learning/ai thing. the company we're doing it with sent us an iphone, so i took it and trekked down to the annex and spent some quality time three days in a row squeezing myself between the stacks trying to take pics of the shelves. the books in the annex are old and dusty and some of them are in bad shape, which means the spines are in bad shape, which means when you back into the stack on one side of the aisle so you can take pics of the stack on the other side, you brush up against old book spines and get attractive smudges on your clothes. i wanted to look through some of the books (so much random demographic information, plus economic policies, assorted bound journals from eighty years ago, reports from ww2 agencies, stuff in other languages, giant stacks of newspapers wrapped in brown paper) but, you know, i wasn't there to read. it was kind of fun, even tho i was on the floor all by myself and apparently there's a ghost up there. O.O i didn't see or hear or sense it, which is TOTALLY FINE. i don't need to see ghosts to believe in them.
we got snow on tuesday. :DDD and snizzle today. :DDD tuesday night i didn't even have to shovel my car out - i just brushed all the snow off it and drove out of the space. maybe because i parked on a side street? we had a snow emergency so it wasn't like there was just a dusting. in any case, SNOW. welcome to winter. :D
these two guys just released their first album. this is notable mostly because they're 88 and 102.
guy makes tesla pick-up truck out of mashed potatoes. especially impressive because the tesla pick-up is very angular and mashed potatoes... aren't.
a little boy in michigan invited his whole kindergarten class to his adoption hearing. (in the pic he's the little black boy down in front.) i love that his classmates had paper hearts on sticks.
dog has to wear a cone. cat is entertained.
in cute archaeological news, check out this wee sock knitted in egypt 1700 years ago.
in gruesome archaeological news, archaeologists in guatemala discovered infant skeletons wearing helmets made out of other kids' skulls. ewww. the archaeologists just don't know why. i'm guessing ancient guatemalan children weren't playing the equivalent of pop warner football and needed good head protection.
so they posted my job at work, which means i can apply for it, so i did. (several people pointed out the listing in a "you should totally apply for this" kind of way.) they're taking applications until like the middle of january and i don't want to wait that long, but what can you do. at least two of the other admins are very much in my corner, by which i mean they have very strong feelings about the way temps are treated and think i should've been hired as an actual employee from the get-go. which is how i feel, what a coincidence. :D anyway, keep your fingers crossed.
a couple weeks ago (this is what happens when you never update >.< ) i got a project to take pictures of shelves in the storage annex as part of a machine learning/ai thing. the company we're doing it with sent us an iphone, so i took it and trekked down to the annex and spent some quality time three days in a row squeezing myself between the stacks trying to take pics of the shelves. the books in the annex are old and dusty and some of them are in bad shape, which means the spines are in bad shape, which means when you back into the stack on one side of the aisle so you can take pics of the stack on the other side, you brush up against old book spines and get attractive smudges on your clothes. i wanted to look through some of the books (so much random demographic information, plus economic policies, assorted bound journals from eighty years ago, reports from ww2 agencies, stuff in other languages, giant stacks of newspapers wrapped in brown paper) but, you know, i wasn't there to read. it was kind of fun, even tho i was on the floor all by myself and apparently there's a ghost up there. O.O i didn't see or hear or sense it, which is TOTALLY FINE. i don't need to see ghosts to believe in them.
we got snow on tuesday. :DDD and snizzle today. :DDD tuesday night i didn't even have to shovel my car out - i just brushed all the snow off it and drove out of the space. maybe because i parked on a side street? we had a snow emergency so it wasn't like there was just a dusting. in any case, SNOW. welcome to winter. :D
these two guys just released their first album. this is notable mostly because they're 88 and 102.
guy makes tesla pick-up truck out of mashed potatoes. especially impressive because the tesla pick-up is very angular and mashed potatoes... aren't.
a little boy in michigan invited his whole kindergarten class to his adoption hearing. (in the pic he's the little black boy down in front.) i love that his classmates had paper hearts on sticks.
dog has to wear a cone. cat is entertained.
in cute archaeological news, check out this wee sock knitted in egypt 1700 years ago.
in gruesome archaeological news, archaeologists in guatemala discovered infant skeletons wearing helmets made out of other kids' skulls. ewww. the archaeologists just don't know why. i'm guessing ancient guatemalan children weren't playing the equivalent of pop warner football and needed good head protection.