Posting here because LJ says they're going to delete inactive accounts.  Hope they let this one stay on.  I still might need it someday.

By now everyone knows the election is over, and I admit it, I'm very pleased with the result.  But one of the most interesting things didn't strike me until later:  I sat in Delaware, watching television coverage in Chicago and Phoenix, then spoke to D1 in Seattle by cell phone, and then to K in Germany by computer phone, all in the space of 20 ( Read more... )

 Today I met a doctor.  She is a Trauma Doctor, which means that when a bomb explodes and there are body parts all over the floor, she is part of the team who puts the pieces back together so the families can have funerals.  We had a great conversation about a number of topics, then we were both complaining about giving expert witness testimony for ( Read more... )

 

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Try this to see if you are in the right field:

http://www.careerpath.com/career-tests/colorcareercounselor.aspx

For me, it showed what I WANT to do, not what I actually do.......interesting!

My computer is fried. That's the technical term used by the IT experts at corporate. I spent 6 hours on the phone on Friday and 2 more on Saturday trying to get it worked out. No go. So they're shipping me a new computer. Meanwhile, I can't work, I'm really stressed, project number one is in the toilet and I can't even read the f'ing emails ( Read more... )

Work, again.  Having been gone for 2 weeks, I'm hopeful that things have progressed, and they sort of have.  One set of things seems to be pretty much where it was before, the other has definitely moved forward, but not very well.  And that doofus keeps asking me to do things on something that I firmly backed out of before I left.  I think he's ( Read more... )

"...everyone comes equipped with a face worth painting or a story worth telling.  We should hold fast to that knowledge and defend it..."

Sounds good to me!

Excellent food!  Good solid white bread with a stiff crust, split in half lengthwise and stuffed with thin slices of mystery meat carved from a vertical loaf turning on a spit before an electric fire.  Pickled sliced cabbage, slices of tomatoes and feta cheese, pepperoncinis, all drizzled over with yoghurt sauce.  It costs E3.5 and I can only eat ( Read more... )

Today I had that weird feeling again, the one I developed the last time we were here.  It's sort of like I don't know who I am and I don't have any value.  I have plenty to do:  laundry, library, apt hunting, finding a car, so that's not it.  It's just like I am transformed into a non-person or something.  After only 1 week!  This isn't good.  The ( Read more... )