Today I did New Hire training for the company I work for. I have been freelancing and contracting for them for quite some time, but I'm excited and pleased to be brought on full-time.

So yay.

Then there was lunch, which was delightful.

However, before we got to the awesomeness, there was one tiny, eensy, weensy thing.

I was asked to fill out a "data ( Read more... )

Because my birthday is coming up soon I wanted to give you all presents, so I give you MY CAT and also some awsum fiction of awsumness. Now I'm not suggesting which you should prefer. I'm just saying MY CAT WILL KILL YOU WITH HER CUTENESS if you don't sufficiently homage her little face.

First, we have Bette deciding that really Mommy should stay in ( Read more... )

Still trying to figure out what place, in this twitter based world, this creaky old thing has for me now. But whatever the answer becomes, there are some links, at the very least, I'd quite like to a) offer up to you all and b) put somewhere marginally less transitory than twitter.

1. Cat Valente, a while ago, wrote a brilliant piece about Fantasy ( Read more... )

So we - on purpose this time - went to NJ last night to see Carbon Leaf again. And we did! And it was fabulous! And Terry showed us adorable baby videos!

I'm sure thunderemerald will post their setlist, if she hasn't already and if you ask nicely, but what I want to talk about is the awesome way in which they change their songs. I'm not the best at recognising ( Read more... )

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On the plus side, CARBON LEAF (and Barry gesturing at us in apparently a complimentary way?) on the down side, you hear me singing.

Still amazing.

I made you some culture, den I listened to it!

Today my grand-step-mother called and randomly gave me two tickets to see an awesome pianist at Carnegie Hall do a good and srsly cultured first half and the awesomest second half ever. It was Schumann being adorable! And then Chopin being Polish! With two bouncy encores! What could be bad?

Then I came ( Read more... )