I started my new job on Monday. I went through a pretty hefty orientation and now I'm training with the receptionist. In a few weeks, I'll be training with records management. I'm officially a long-term temporary fed with hopes of becoming a full-time one somewhere in the future. Some people may hate the government and as a result anyone who is ( Read more... )

I guess I haven't posted about our trip to England... that will have to come another day. I've got history on the mind and a paper to write. Sadly, I can't fit this on Facebook ( Read more... )

I had a dream last night that I married Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Brad was okay with it. We have been watching a lot of Star Trek, but what's peculiar is that in my dream Picard's name was actually Jean-Luc Picard Rhubarb and I became Leah Rhubarb. I do love rhubarb pie... I also remember feeling sad when I realized I would no longer have my ( Read more... )

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I hit my two year mark at work on Tuesday. That's likely 4 times as long as any other job I've held. Victory! Except that it doesn't feel like it. Following the same cycle of menial tasks every month, every day is starting to wear on me. I love the ease and security that my job provides, but the job itself and the environment I do my job in is just ( Read more... )

An interesting NYT article on the decline of tenured and tenure-track professors and the potential effects on the quality of student learning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/education/20adjunct.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

I got a netbook for to improve homework portability, particularly in the case of homework that requires specific programs (i.e. Visual Basic). It also means that I can access my online classes wherever I can find an internet connection. I have to say, for the small amount of money it cost (in comparison to other laptops) it is incredibly convenient ( Read more... )

I've decided that one of the reasons that I love accounting is because its so useful. Right now we're learning about preparing a master budget for a business which computes the budgeted sales, production, direct materials, direct labor, cost budget, budgeted income statement, and budgeted balance sheet. Forms, forms, forms! But I love it because ( Read more... )

I'm a married woman now. A month and two days gone. It's still a bit strange. I kind of feel like it snuck up on me even though I had thought about it intermittenly for at least a year before it actually happened. Mostly it's the same, but there's a small mental shift that changes things in subtle ways. Everything is permanent now, we're in it for ( Read more... )

I've been taking a writing class over the summer. It's been a bit of a challenge seeing as how I haven't written a specifically structured essay in at least five years. I stressed myself out a great deal doing the first two papers and ended up getting B's on both of them. Now the last paper I wrote, I still wanted to do a good job, but it was more ( Read more... )