Life is back to the grueling grindstone that it is. It feels like I never really took 2 weeks off the way I am getting slammed with work. Not sure how much more field this pony can plow. I am earnestly hunting for jobs. I'm kind of to the point where I don't even care where I end up. The phone interview I had during the holidays didn't ( Read more... )

My vacation is coming to a close. Where did it all go? I have been home for 2 weeks but it literally feels like I landed yesterday. Or may be the day before yesterday. I don't know if I can go back. I know I can go back to Louisiana, but it will take every ounce of me to go back to work. The waking up early, the making a lunch, the sitting in ( Read more... )

One of the jobs I applied to last week has actually responded back. How encouraging! I feel like most of the time when you apply for a job you are just sending your resume into a blackhole. So, to actually get a response, and a response in under 1 week is pretty amazing. They would like to set up a phone interview for tomorrow. Eek! Moving fast ( Read more... )

Box of presents still MIA. They will likely arrive Monday with any kind of luck. Oh well. What can you do? I will be presently surprised if the box comes tomorrow, but I am not getting my hopes up ( Read more... )

Ok, I have been home since Saturday and I am bored. I have baked, I have cooked, I have cleaned, I have made paper snowflakes, I have decorated, and I have wrapped what presents are available to be wrapped*. I am now reading through all of the magazines my parents have received since I was last home ( Read more... )

This week I tried to channel my inner Mrs. Morrisey and made 3.5 different kinds of cookies. What became of the 0.5 you ask? Well, I made the batter, baked the cookies, but they didn't get as "cakey" as I had hoped and were actually surprisingly difficult to get off the pan, but they did taste yummy. Ultimately, they ended up in the trash. The ( Read more... )

1. LSU season is over. We were #5, and lost to the #13 team. How very sad. No bowl games for us. I swear it was just yesterday that I was going to the first game of the season and it was hot as blazes out there and I couldn't wait to take a shower ( Read more... )

It's the same temperature in Baton Rouge right now as it is in Washington, DC. This is not right. Thank God it's going up to 83 again later this week. I'm just not ready for wool socks and gloves yet. And to think last weekend I was bopping around the French Quarter in nothing more than a bra, under-roos, and like a yard of fabric with gold ( Read more... )

Dave: (to Jerry) How's Harrison doing ( Read more... )

I have to go to a conference in Atlanta today through Thurs. I have absolutely no desire to go. This conference has nothing of any interest to me, and I'll be trapped in a hotel on the north side of Atlanta without any mode of transportation. Not that I'll have time to see the sights anyway. The hotel does not have wifi or refrigerators. Yeah ( Read more... )