Seen on a flyer for an event today ( Read more... )

cmcurry sent me a note tonight asking after my general health and the whole grad school thing ( Read more... )

So, five years ago during NaNo, I needed to pad out my word count. This led to me locking two dudes in a safe and making them talk to one another, which led to one character telling a 2300-word version of the Aristocrats joke. Which, if you don't know what it is, you should read the wiki to know what you're getting into.

And here it is.

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--I have a job! And I'll use my degree, and the first day was today, and it was lovely. Everyone seems very nice and eager for me to work with them, and it's wonderful. Considering how badly some people at my previous campus job thought of me, it's nice to go into an office not having to worry about someone getting passive-aggressive on me ( Read more... )

NaNo season is about to set off (15 days to go), and while the Portland group is certainly active and seems cool, they're also HUGE, and I'm willing to admit I'm not up for that. My old, beloved NaNo group was big online but small in person, and I loved that. The Portland group is big enough to require a check-in table, and while I certainly ( Read more... )

I dropped my FrameMaker class because when the prof was running us through what we'd learn over the quarter, I realized I knew how to do everything except for one thing, and then I figured that out by typing "table of contents FrameMaker" into Google. I've got an independent study now (thank you, oh awesome advisor), and I've been fumbling a bit ( Read more... )

I was in bed this morning, trying desperately to sleep through the worst of my period cramps, and suddenly, I heard some music starting right outside my window. Yesterday, when The Husband and I were coming back from the grocery store, we saw some guys constructing a bandstand, and I made comment that I really hoped it wasn't actually a bandstand ( Read more... )

Grad school has started, and I have now been to all my classes. So far, so good. Document Design uses the exact same books as my Advanced Tech Writing class, and the prof seems to run the class in a very similar manner to my ATW prof. Given that my prof is rather well-known in the field, methinks my ATW prof borrowed pages from her playbook, and ( Read more... )

We've been getting around a little and doing all right. Had a very weird moment on the bus today when we were looking for a card shop for The Husband. We took the same bus to and from the shop, and it stopped announcing stops after a few blocks. The public transit website says that you can ask the driver to announce upcoming stops, but I can't ( Read more... )

Rockiest start to a relationship I've ever had ( Read more... )