Item the first: did not get the job I very much wanted. (But some good possibilities still in the offing.)

Item the second: have finished every single one of my law school finals ever!

Item the third: attended my first ever con today. Pretty cool.

That is all.

The snowperson of Yay! \o/

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Hey, you, authors! You do NOT have a right to prevent the reading-aloud of your works. Copyright protects the copying, recording, public performance, or distribution of your works. None of that is going on in the Kindle electronic text-to-speech function. Text-to-speech is like reading aloud to your kids, friends, or family members - which is NOT a ( Read more... )

mmm...

Gutter Anthems on its way!

Here are the Haggis boys being cute and musically awesome(drumming on electric guitar bit starting around 4:01 esp cool.)

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(only just now realized also on Emusic. durnit. But hopefully worth having a backup hard-copy.)

So at my interview yesterday, a couple of older women who work in Human Resources were telling me about how they like Dilbert. So I told them they should watch "Office Space". I was a little punchy, I think. I'm wondering what HR managers my mom's age will really make of it! :)

...but I started taking regular vitamins (general multivitamin, C supplement, Calcium supplement, and Glucosamine/Chondroitin) this past fall, and I just realized I haven't been seriously sick _once_ this winter. Wow. Um. Maybe they work ( Read more... )

On the day after the Presidential election this fall, one of my law professors took half the class to just talk about the election. While the election was relevant to the class (a survey course intimately connected with the functioning of our modern-day federal government), that's not how he talked about it. He was just kind of thrilled and ( Read more... )

Useful for me, at least.

Eleveninches posts reminders/manifestations of white privilege (originally by Peggy McIntosh)

So, monanotlisa posted pics of her awesome Alanna the Lioness costume. (For an office party, no less!!!) In my comments, I started digressing onto why I like Keladry better than Alanna (or some of the other Pierce heroines). My original intention was just to say how I like that Kel is a more chill personality, and doesn't angst like Alanna, but as I was ( Read more... )

Just sat down to watch tv - turned it on to find a distinguished-looking woman with short silver hair doing standup. My brain went:

PBS? No... not standup.
Comedy Central? No way, woman - not to mention visibly white hair...
WTF? What the hell station is this?
*hits "info* button*
Ohhh. Logo. Thaaaat makes sense.All those thoughts went by so fast ( Read more... )