* Windows 8 does not support DVD playback. Because reasons. Apparently ( Read more... )

The tale end of Hurricane Arthur passed through without doing any serious damage to our neigborhood, though we had about 10 minutes of truly impressive lightning and hail. It was the kind of lightning that would have kept us awake even without the thunder, because it was brighter than daylight outside ( Read more... )

I have not posted in ages! And now I'm doing that annoying thing where I clearly need to write a novel's worth of posts to catch up and and don't know where to start and so write nothing. Bullet points to the rescue ( Read more... )

I've been knitting things! Many things. These have all been happening this fall/winter:


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Come be my coworker! Sort of...you'd actually see me about half an hour a week. But it's a pretty cool job if you like the hours:

Public Services Late Night Coordinator - Part Time
Job PostingLibrary & Technology Services (LTS) at Brandeis University is looking for a Public Services Late Night Coordinator - Part Time. This position will ( Read more... )

Along with my snazzy new suit, interview websites give me to understand that I need A Handbag. I don't seem to have gotten the "Owning a Handbag" chapter of the Girl Manual, and don't really want to get into the my-purse-costs-a-week's-pay thing, but on the other hand my actual bag options run from battered canvas tote bag to Trader Joe's lunchbox ( Read more... )

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I had an excellent birthday, and birthday-weekend. I now have a dinosaur-shaped muffin pan! I have used it to bake cornbreads and raspberry muffins. One of the raspberry ones even made a triceratops with a raspberry seed perfectly placed for an eye :-)

Yesterday tirerim came over and we played a very successful three-player game of Lord of the Rings ( Read more... )

Well, sort of. I'm still really sleepy this morning, but I got to bed by 11 last night, which is really the best I can hope for I think. Much better than buzzing around on caffeine and crashing at 1am, which was what I previously had to do if I wanted to be remotely competent for evening shifts.

Adderall continues to be extremely useful. I'm also now slightly annoyed at the doctor who told me to stop the Adderall while I was on Valium for the hip/back pain thing, because significant Google research turns up little to no negative interactions listed on the standard medical sites, and significant numbers of anecdata from people who have ( Read more... )