Yerba mate and Shpongle make sitting at a desk programming infinitely more enjoyable.

60 degrees and sunny outside - time to flee the tiny office for some communing with prairie dogs, sun, sky.
ahhhh.

I'm taking an informal "continuing education" German class that meets every Monday night. After last night's rather difficult class, I kept waking up all night from dreams in which I was repeatedly trying to form the same sentences over and over - conjugating verbs and finding the proper article to correspond to the case required by the ( Read more... )

This morning I'm convinced that snowflakes are the very coolest thing in the entire world (followed closely by a good public transit system that allows me to observe each individual snowflake on my coat during my morning work commute instead of wrestling with icy rush-hour traffic ( Read more... )

My sleeping patterns have been so erratic lately - one night I'll sleep through an assortment of noises and disturbances, and the next I'll wake to the sound of the heater warming up ( Read more... )

April 5...Chomsky...tickets soon to be in my grubby little paws...yay!

I keep procrastinating livejournal updates because of the nagging feeling that I should recount at least some of what I’ve been doing since my last update aeons ago. However, in the interests of actually using this thing with any regularity, I’ll just completely ignore the last month and a half and hope vbell23 feels inclined to describe yet more of our ( Read more... )

Just got home from babysitting my friend's kids : 3.5 month old girl (her first time away from both parents), and 4 year old boy who speaks no English. I'm too tired to actually write anything interesting, but I figured that since I made it through the evening without any major incidents, I could damn well force myself to update my journal before ( Read more... )

Dezso just gave me a dramatic reading of a Feynman lecture, AND fed me strawberries during my hot bath. I think I could get used to this...
Time to get warm again - no matter how much I think I'm used to it, cold Boulder weather keeps making me want to continually grab a sleeping bag and hibernate.

Hmm. Should I give the lovely vbell23 and hubby notice that I'll be staying with them after my planned holiday visit, or just pack a pillow along with the cat & Hungarian honey, so that we can sleep on the floor more comfortably until we're kicked out onto the cold streets of Leipzig ( Read more... )