Kelsey: What have you done today?
James: met with the mover, sent an email to the other mover, talked to my mom about a job lead. northrop grumman is hiring in this area, but nothing that I'm qualified for. there are a couple of things I'm qualified for elsewhere, though
Kelsey: What jobs? Where?
James: electrical engineering jobs - signal processing ( Read more... )

Zeyad: So are you looking forward to the semester starting?
Kelsey: Kind of? I'm taking this one class on the history of Virginia through 1800. It's required to take in order to become a teacher in Virginia. It should be cool to see what sort of people are taking the class. Also, I just finished this book about the settling of New York, and I'm ( Read more... )

James and Kelsey return home from Famous Dave's.Kelsey: I suppose I should...write ( Read more... )

(via text)

Kelsey: Do you know when you and/or Dad will be home?
Mom: Yes.
Kelsey: ...Will you tell me when you guys will be home?
Mom: Yes.

Several minutes go by. Finally Dad calls.

Dad: The correct question is "When are we going to be home".
Kelsey: Ohhhh.

Later. I am writing. Someone knocks on the door. I answer the door.

Door-to-door Salesman: Hi!
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I called her in tears.

"What's up?" Mom asked, casually, since I had managed to prevent my voice from choking.

"I returned my econ book," I said. "It was damaged. I'd expected to pay a fee, but I didn't expect to pay $151 for it!"

"What!" Mom said. "How much was the book originally?"

"I rented it," I said. "I rented it for about $80 or $90. But my ( Read more... )

I had this conversation over the phone today, as I was walking home from my jog:

Kelsey: Hello?
Mom: Kelsey? Are you okay??
Kelsey: Yes, I'm fine, why?
Mom: You called me at 2:00 in the morning!
Kelsey: Oh! Hahahaha! Did you know that we landed a rover on Mars this morning?
Mom: ...no...?
Kelsey: Yeah, and they were streaming a video of the view inside ( Read more... )

At some random point in the day, when I was in between projects, I stopped by the paint desk and found Festus and Erich deep in conversation.

"Just because I haven't known a woman doesn't make me less of a man," Erich was saying.

"I don't believe you," Festus said. He turned to me. "Do you believe him?"

"What?" I said. "What's the issue?" I then ( Read more... )

I was very impressed by the ladder Jon managed to get for me from the Hardware department. It moved silently and smoothly, and you didn't have to jump on the bottom step to lock it. I didn't even have to put all my weight on it ( Read more... )

Kelsey: Argh! I hate those facebook statuses that all end in "share this post". It's so stupid ( Read more... )

DJ Roche: I'll use you like a four-way intersection. I don't even know what that means, but I'll do it.
James: You'll stop at the appropriate time and give the person on your right the right of way?

And.Kelsey: On this day in history, Joan of Arc was martyred ( Read more... )