If you know my family, you know this to be true:

I have a punning clan.

Couple new thoughts on a topic I favor ( Read more... )

Quinine fluoresces.  Your tonic water can be totally trippy in blacklight ( Read more... )

The main cataloger at my library has been working part-time here, part-time in Stoneham.  Stoneham just offered her full-time status.  Contingent on her (likely) acceptance, I'll get her 14 hours a week as a permanent part-time position in addition to the filler hours I get now.  Stable income in my field, very nice.

The director of the library where I work surprised me today.  After about fifteen minutes of uninterrupted ranting about a very change-resistant staff member, he noted that when he looks around, he sees changes that he himself instituted fifteen or twenty years ago ... and that's a bad sign.  It wasn't in so many words (or so few), but what he was ( Read more... )

It has been waaaaaaay too long to try to catch up on reading or recapitulate stuff since the last State Of The Andrew, so I'm just gonna jump right in with what's on my mind right now.

Happy birthday, anotherjen!

I've been on sertraline (Zoloft) for a few months. It's been working pretty well in terms of emotional evenness and regularity of sleep. But today I ( Read more... )

I'm just about to hit my six-month mark at Whole Foods. That means I'm up for a small raise, which is lovely. It doesn't inherently mean that I'm up for an upgrade to a wholly different employment status ... but that happened anyway. I've been working 35ish hours per week for the entire six months, and just a couple days ago, the local ( Read more... )

I rise from the dead simply to show people a funny: "My Blackberry Is Not Working"

I don't often see sketch comedy so funny that British actors are betraying smiles.

EDIT: Well, while I'm up and about anyway, I'll give y'all a movie review too. True Grit was a mix of good stuff and meh stuff. The humor was very well done and dry as a mummy. ( Read more... )

Long day, very tired, can't type worth a damn, going to sleep soon. But first, some funnies to share ( Read more... )

I've had more to say recently, but some is forgotten. The significant new insight that I still recall clearly and want to share came out of my last therapy session. I have (at least) three modes of mental operation that are more or less mutually exclusive: zone, thinky, and depression. When I'm "in the zone", I'm not doing much with the front of ( Read more... )