Oh, yay for the holidays the Cleary way. Yesterday at work, the first year associates dressed up as santas to pass out everyone's firm presents (J&R gift card for me!). They also passed out eggnog...with rum...I had two. Had a good day.

Then last night was the firm holiday party. EXCELLENT time! It was held at Cipriani on Wall Street. Lots ( Read more... )

-An excruciating defeat in a championship soccer game
-Tequilla shots
-The uncovering of some devastating news
-A cozy encounter with Duncan Sheik
-A failed eye chart test at the DMV
-A fulfilled request for an assistant

-Rediscovered Steve Seel (of Music Listening Contest fame) and my love of Minnesota Public Radio by coming across MPR's collection of podcasts. Listening to MPR may be the only thing I miss about my car and high school ( Read more... )

I've been watching too much tv lately. Too much. I'm tired all the time from work so I sit down in front of the tv and just keep watching. And I have this growing list of things that need to get done. So..I'm grounding myself. Only TV I can watch is shows that I already regularly watch (Veronica Mars, Top Chef, maybe My Boys), though DVDs are ( Read more... )

We're going to the Championships, baby!

-I worked like 14 hours of overtime this week. Sick ( Read more... )

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The study for which I did research last summer at the Center for Neighborhood Technology has finally been published! Though I had no part in writing it (seeing as how my fellowship had to end), Melissa and I did the majority of the field work for the study. If you look at the forms in the appendices, that's what I used. I took some of the ( Read more... )

Hope everyone had a relaxing Thanksgiving/4-day weekend!

( My non-traditional Thanksgiving weekend )

Went to Pittsburgh this weekend for their lindy exchange. The short story is, despite the quality of dancing being pretty low, I had an excellent time!

( Now for the long story )