i hope every time i post from now on it's not a variation of "what a weekend, huh?" but, uh, what a weekend, huh? i hope everyone survived the crowdstrike bullshit on friday - i got exactly two emails from the u and nothing from my department's it guys so i figured we were in the clear. i worked a half day and then drove down to the cape for my ( Read more... )

the faculty is back from their retreat to the fancy resorts of cape cod and it's still very quiet at work. it will pick up eventually. friday i did nothing - and i mean that literally - i could've taken the day off and no one would have known - at least today wasn't that bad. and i did get out during lunch and breathe the fresh air ( Read more... )

happy mother's day to the moms on the flist! if for some reason you want and/or need a mom, you can borrow mine. :D i'm pretty sure she won't mind that i'm volunteering her. i called this morning to wish her a happy mother's day and it was kind of a short conversation because i went to my cousin a's house for brunch. i haven't seen her and her ( Read more... )

so i may or may not have made a chocolate mug cake at 10:30 because i was craving a brownie. CRAVING. i feel much better now. :D ( Read more... )

the trackpad on my laptop isn't working - it tracks, it just doesn't click, so i can move the cursor around but i can't open anything. so that's fun. it's only about nine months old. there may be a visit to a genius bar in my future, yay. (i'm on the work laptop ( Read more... )

if there are jews in the audience who plan to observe yom kippur, i hope you have a meaningful fast ( Read more... )

if you were thinking about doing nanowrimo this year, the site is ready for you. what this really means is the forums are ready for you. :D well, ready for me anyway. tiiiime siiiink. now i just have to figure out what i want to write. >.<

yesterday i made carrot pickles. the recipe calls for a pound of carrots and only a cup and a half of ( Read more... )

i went to my sister's tonight to watch crazy rich asians and eat chinese food. we've both seen it a bunch of times, but sometimes you just need a sweet and predictable romance movie about attractive, likable people eating delicious looking food (seriously, there's so much eating in this movie) and being in love in a stunningly gorgeous part of the ( Read more... )

yesterday i accidentally sloshed some tea on my laptop, dried it off as fast as i could, and then half the keys stopped working and it started scrolling weirdly. so i mentally smacked myself for being careless, shut it down, and let it dry out more thoroughly. and half the keys still don't work and it still scrolls weirdly. >.< so i think i'm ( Read more... )

happy halloween, and a blessed samhain to them what celebrate! enjoy this story of a mom who made a halloween costume that turned her adorable small child into a popeye's fried chicken sandwich. (she glued cornflakes to a shirt for an appropriately fried look.) you will die of cute ( Read more... )