Okay, people, need some feedback: Anything happening Friday Apr 3 or Saturday Apr 4? I've been phenomenally negligent in setting up anything for my birthday. I'm leaning toward Sat 4, but wanted to check with the huddled masses ( Read more... )

Working in an office sucks sometimes, except for health insurance and the phrase "cupcakes for someone's birthday!" Oh, lovely. Plus tomorrow the art department organized Pies for Pi Day Observed (Pi Day being Saturday, 3/14), which serves to make me curious about what they'll be dishing up on April 20th.

However, the birthday cupcakes reminded me ( Read more... )

An update:

I just spent two days in Washington, having gone home to attend the memorial service for my friend Ethan. He's a high school friend who married a girl I've known since childhood-just two months ago I spent New Year's Eve at their place. He got so sick so quickly, and all weekend it never quite made sense that he wasn't there. I can't ( Read more... )

It just took me about 10 minutes to figure out how to double-space something in Word. I...had to google it.

Now I haven't written in Word in years; Word formats text, which fucks with most publishing platforms, so I got very used to doing my writing in bare-bones programs. These days I can't really let my mind work right unless I'm using something ( Read more... )

Hello, world. I've spent most of the past two days on the couch, recovering from what I first thought was a touch of hangover (for a cruddy Saturday), which then turned out to be flu (there goes Sunday!) and now, just to be mean, has migrated to a sore throat (fuck off, Monday!). I planned to stay home to recover and do the laundry that never got ( Read more... )

So I was sooooo proud of myself, for going to Mt. Snow up in Vermont and kicking its ass on skis. I wasn't tired! I wasn't sore! I got up at 7am the second day to hit the slopes! Then I tried snowboarding on Sunday afternoon, and even with a lesson I managed to fall squarely on my ass in a spectacular lift-exiting flail. My arms, my knees, my bum- ( Read more... )

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Hey guess what! I managed to talk for seven minutes on the radio without saying "fuck" once! Go me.

Hey also! Our company announced 5% paycuts all around yesterday, go us! What's not on Gawker is that in exchange for a 5% pay cut, we get to work 5% less; the cut comes in the form of unpaid vacation, one day for every 20. I mean, of course it's still ( Read more... )

Updates, kids:

1. Boo, Duke losing to Wake. Well that was a fun few days at No. 1.

2. Other than the above, nice Bar Hop this week, guys. Except for a certain someone's blatant Duke-baiting, it was a good showing all around. I  like how for most of the night there wasn't a single woman in the bar who wasn't part of our crowd. There are gay bars in ( Read more... )

I'm either having the best or worst Monday ever. Slept til 11am, ate a leisurely breakfast before coming to work, have my cowboy boots up on my desk, and am listening to a Single Ladies/Andy Griffith Show mashup song over my computer's speakers. And I haven't gotten that much work done and am considering taking a break to read a book for a little ( Read more... )