Two thumbs WAY up for staying home for Thanksgiving and not dealing with family angst.  I think NQH and I should start a new tradition: family togetherness at the holiday via phone only.  :D ( Read more... )

 I keep thinking about posting - pretty much everytime I check my flist, but haven't quite gotten there ( Read more... )

 Work continues to be dramatic.  The chair of my department fired his assistant last Thursday.  grumblegrumble ( Read more... )

 Last Wednesday my boss, B, summoned me into her office.  One of our faculty is hosting a symposium on IndecipherableMedicalThing, and needs administrative help.  She said it would need to be worked on over the next 6-7 weeks.  I tried to beg off, being insanely busy, but she asked me to step in until faculty member's new support person is hired on ( Read more... )

When my officemate said she was taking 2 weeks of vacation this summer, I was really happy.  I like having the office to myself, and not having to listen to the country/bluegrass music she likes (it's not my thing).  She's coming back from vacation tomorrow ( Read more... )

Got to work today to find an email from my boss.  He doesn't like the flyer I send out for our weekly educational conference.  He wants the announcement to look more like an announcement.  "or a flyer type of thing."  What ( Read more... )

The poison ivy Itch of Evilness continues ( Read more... )

I went to Fourbucks this morning to get a coffee, and was praised for my "Star-bonix."  The whole Starbucks phenomenon is just an anthropologist's PhD dissertation waiting to happen ( Read more... )

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*sigh* back to work today.  I had a lovely week off.  The weather was beautiful most days, and just average the rest.  I got caught off guard by some 70+ temps, but it was so nice to be able to open the windows at home for the day.  The cats loved it, too.

I read several books, drove up to DC for a day to visit some friends from college, ran some ( Read more... )