I've spent the last two weekends helping my friends Emily and Chad prepare their new house for living. They moved in this week. The house is great. I want one just like it. Of course I think that about most of my friends' homes, but that doesn't change how great Em and Chad's house is. Can't wait to see it after the detritus of moving is gone ( Read more... )

I know, I know, there's no excuse for staying away from the LJ this long. Leave me alone, I've been... I dunno, busy, crazy, sleepy, not feeling it, etc ( Read more... )

Y'know, I don't think I'm wrong to be feeling somewhat resentful towards my family for not offering one single bit of help in this whole grad school thing. I mean, Grandma may be the only one who can really afford to offer help, but damn it, my own mother isn't willing to offer me any financial support, and she's the one most gung ho about this ( Read more... )

Got my passport today. And they sent back my old one, so I can still look at my old stamps and visas if I want to. It's beautiful - the passport, not my picture. My picture has -in the passportification of itself - been changed from something acceptably pleasant looking, to something exceedingly sunburned looking. I hope my face has never been ( Read more... )

My passport is finally in the mail, and I should have it in hand by midweek. YES! I was starting to think I'd never get it. Now... I need to hear from my financial aid people ( Read more... )

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Work is insane. The owner is breathing down our necks about our production volume, like he thinks we can make the laser run faster, or something. The laser's been on a downward spiral for a while, so if anything the 24/7 runs we're putting it through all the time are causing it to run slower. And now we're all getting bitched at if the laser is ( Read more... )

As we all - or most of us - know, Beth calls her workbound archnemesis L From Hell. I rather like that moniker, so I'm making a version of it for mine. I shall call mine D The Devil ( Read more... )

I've had that line from the movie in my head all night.  Needed to share it ( Read more... )

I had my first day of work at the Cotton Exchange yesterday.  It's not terribly hard work, but the constant stench of burned cloth gets pretty unnerving.  And the fact that fires have happened on the laser before doesn't do much to ease my mind.  But Agnes has been working the laser for ten years and never had to actually use the fire extinguisher ( Read more... )