Mark and I went to the Oregon Shakespeare festival this weekend.

I don't know why we keep assuming that things in Oregon are closer than they are... but, yeah, neither of us really noticed that we were signing up for an eight-hour drive (each way) until we had already reserved everything. That's a lot of nuts driving ( Read more... )

I managed to lose my french fries. Somewhere in this small room. French fries, where are yoooooooou?

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I'll be in Germany this weekend. I leave Thursday evening. I'm going to try to party like a rock star during the flight so that I can go to bed during normal German sleep hours on Friday. I will then be attending a wedding. Dirk will probably be more dressed up than I am; I wonder how many times in my life I'll be able to say that. From what I ( Read more... )

What's the scoop on MMP this next round? Has anyone called dibs yet? It's still half a year away, but it might be nice to at least start picking a site.

a girl on the bus today was putting on eye makeup. i don't think there's any way that i could go over that many bumps and still put on paint without a stab wound. she pulled out mascara, eyeliner, and... an eyelash curler ( Read more... )

At first I felt a little unsure about canceling our landline. It's nice for people to have a back up method of calling me, especially since I often have cell issues in the house ( Read more... )

yesterday I won the "Best Tabletopics Speech" vote at Toastmasters. that was pretty exciting ( Read more... )

It is pretty easy to get numbers on what percentage of a charity's budget is [spent] on programs vs. fundraising/admin. But that's not all I want to know. How do I find out what return the charity gets for each program dollar it spends? What if the charities that spend 97% of budget on programs are running a bunch of highly inefficient programs ( Read more... )

today i passed an american medical response (I think that's the company name) SUV with "Supervisor" painted on the side below the logo.

The person driving was smoking. I know it's a high stress job and all, but seriously. Sup with that?