It's been one long MONTH of coordinating with Very Important Organization to get their Very Important Representative to come over for a pre-site visit (actual site visit to take place over three days in mid-May). VIR is currently meeting with our CFO, picking his brain on all the finance-y matters. I'm taking this chance to heave a (temporary) sigh ( Read more... )

♦ This? Is amazing. And judging by the other painting shown at ~6:22, it seems like the elephants have a certain degree of artistic license to draw whatever they want ("I feel like flowers today" or "I feel narcissistic today"). So does this mean they choose what color paint to dab onto their brushes as well? I'm not sure, as the video doesn't show ( Read more... )

I'm sick. I'm so sick that my intern sent me home early today, begging me to go home, stop straining myself, and rest. (*pets young little teenaged intern* She's great.) It's been three and a half days of losing battle with my sore throat, and now I'm not only voiceless, but I suspect I'm sporting a fever as well :\

Time for bed...

(No, this is ( Read more... )

I feel compelled to post today, since February 29 only comes around once every four year, and who knows where I'll be four years from now.

Currently, I am home in NJ, "listening" to Girl Cousin playing the drums on Rock Band. I was playing it earlier, but after finally passing Green Grass & High Tides on the drums, decided I needed to take a break ( Read more... )

Well, winter's finally arrived, it seems. It's been steadily snowing/ice-raining here for pretty much the entire day ( Read more... )

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Firstly, before I procrastinate any longer, a SUPER THANK YOU to the following awesome-ful people who sent me postcards/artses/holiday cards! They arrived safely, thank you :)

♦ alafairnadia, thank you for the lovely postcard! I hope Ecuador was lots of fun.
♦ chaeche, your card arrived! It gave me the squees when I saw mail coming in from the Netherlands ( Read more... )

A girl walked down the street, passing like a racehorse the dilly-dallying pedestrians around her and ignoring the choruses of car horns and tire screeches of the traffic. She was too busy pondering the absurdity of human existence. She wondered, briefly, if God could be believed in saying that life was good. After all, he had never-according to ( Read more... )

Thank you, luciechan and mingbutterfly, for your beautiful cards (and the beautiful words written inside them)! :D ( Read more... )

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it ( Read more... )

Tuesday, November 14, after dragging myself to work from the red-eye flight I took on Monday night:

ziasudra: *stumbles into office, half alseep*

Boss: Go online and book a ticket from New York to Cleveland right now.

ziasudra: Bzuh?!?

Boss: Mr. Executive Director wants you to go to the conference. Other Guy In The Organization is going too. Just book a ticket ( Read more... )