The busier I am at work the more deficient I am at being a human being, including responding to personal e-mail messages in a timely fashion or at all. I think I respond to about 1 out of every 6 messages or so from my siblings. Perhaps not the end of the world when they have subjects like "how bored i am" and pictures like the following:


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At church they are having a Christmas bazaar. In Michigan bazaars are more a fall event, and they sell a bunch of homemade decorations and things like bootleg designer purses, I have to believe (I haven't been to one since I was very little, and my impression of them back then was that they sucked because they didn't have proper toys, and I doubt ( Read more... )

My July and August at work were filled in part by a deal for a company ("Butter" was its code name--all the deals have code names, because bankers love code names) that invests in real estate funds that it also manages. So, the fund will be an entity that investors can buy interests in, and the fund manager then uses the capital to buy certain ( Read more... )

Heathrow Airport is owned by Heathrow Airport Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of BAA Limited, the parent of BAA Airports Limited (formerly BAA plc). BAA Airports Limited provides employees and central functions to Heathrow pursuant to a shared services agreement ( Read more... )

Yesterday/today was my longest day at work, and it was 35 hours--getting in at 8 on Wednesday morning and working until 7 this evening. The consequences physically, as far as I can tell, are that my feet were kind of swollen and the bottoms tender when I got home, the follicles on my head ache, and I am somewhat lethargic. I will probably oversleep ( Read more... )

I had a dream about losing some of my hair (and having a fat, bald head) again last night. It is really a distressing dream to have--much worse for me than tooth-loss dreams, which are creepy but not nearly as traumatic (but not as bad as infestation/immersion dreams). It's been about a year, and so once a year isn't that bad. I'm sure it will pick ( Read more... )

I've got new amortisation tables in place, and my debt is very much yesterday's news. Of course, that assumes that there is something else today to replace the story or that, perhaps, there had been another story all along and I've been using the debt to hide more interesting stories, sort of what swine flu has been doing these days. Wouldn't it be ( Read more... )

Aren't you all so interested in my finances? For me it's kind of like a game. I have a text file on my desktop that outlines all my student-loan scheming--my repayment plan has become progressively more aggressive this year, with the most aggressive jump happening a couple weeks ago, when I was finally able to conclude that I did not need to have a ( Read more... )

May has been a sort of rough month. My parents put down Princess on the first because she was going to the bathroom outside her litter box. The doctor said she had weak kidneys, and she had probably become a bit senile, but otherwise she was fine. They didn't try to move her litter box upstairs or anything. And they didn't tell me that she was ( Read more... )

- Meg got into town around Holy Thursday. I hadn't seen her since 2006, and so we have done a lot of catching up and getting back to the status quo of just talking about plants and birds. She is getting married to another guy named Jason (not that she has ever been married before), and she's writing her dissertation on things that require her to be ( Read more... )