Three years of junior high. OK, that was nice. Four years of Stuy - *always Stuy*. Five years in DC - OK, yeah, *so much* happened during those five years - duly documented in *many* LJ posts, but are there really any Single Days that stand out? A few, sure enough, but more like, there are individual sequences of events that stand out, rarely if ( Read more... )

That kind of day. How long since the Old Job launched an OverDrive ebook collection? Three years at least? And it took until now to discover that a line of *159 titles* in the collection specifically has the print function disabled. Oh, and who made the discovery? No, not anyone at the Old Job. Yes, me ( Read more... )

Working "normal people hours" was always a challenge. Or, anyways, working normal people hours at a job that I didn't particularly care for was ( Read more... )

Spring of 2005, the first time I'm looking for an actual apartment - as opposed to a single room in one, or in a townhouse. I mean, for that, *in 2000*, the classified ads sections of the Washington Post and then the local DC indie newspaper worked out perfectly fine, then Craigslist came along ( Read more... )

I guess that's how things work. Eight years ago - this week - thank you, LiveJournal - started in the job that then became my first full-time position as a librarian. Oh, and, that next weekend was the last time I actually worked Katsucon ( Read more... )

Don't know - maybe the stars aligned just right, or a butterfly did its thing somewhere. Or not, and there is no cause or reason. But, hey, movement ( Read more... )

So, 2016 ( Read more... )

Come into the office this morning - we have a guy who works friday-to-monday, but hey, he takes vacations too, so when he's out, any one of the rest of us gets asked to volunteer to cover for a day. I think this then counts as an extra floating holiday or something - never really bothered to really find out. Anyways, yeah, come in thinking, man, ( Read more... )

It's like, sometimes, I really don't get how the world - or anyways, *this particular part of the world*, works. Easy example, what's all this obsession with how much a home is valued at? When you're buying a home, you're buying *a place to live in*; so what if down the line, it's worth more or less than you paid for it. Either you can afford the ( Read more... )

You know, didn't even realize just how much these past few months, going back to the beginning of the year, really, have basically been about playing the Trails of Cold Steel games. I mean, hey, when each of them is 80+ hours - spread out to an hour or two a day, and of course, not *every day* - that's a LOT OF days already! Plus, hey, the way ( Read more... )