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Microdermabrasion, and handstand things
Today I tried microdermabrasion for the first time! It felt scratchy, like a rapidly vibrating pencil eraser (the gritty kind) being dragged across my face with some force in little strokes. Then the loose crystals and dead skin were vacuumed off me with a little vacuum; the esthetician told me this was strong enough to suck blackheads out of ( Read more... ) -
Little things from the weekend
Herd immunity: got my flu shot last week.
Handstands: I'm obsessed with tuck-ups now. After years of finding them intractably difficult to do correctly, to the point where it was all frustration and no learning, I now find them instructive. Progress?
Election: my town is offering early voting, and I'm tempted.
Book: I read The Now Habit. I'm ( Read more... ) -
Would YOU pass along a friend-of-friend to the rest of your friends?
I had a somewhat fascinating conversation this week about the limits of friend-favors and social networks. It was a conversation with my friend RF, and it took place in the context of this linear social network. All connections are social connections but all parties are in the same industry ( Read more... ) -
A victory
Working at Zillian is like living in one of those action movies where there's no villain; the slopes of Everest, or a runaway train, or the harsh landscape of Mars, is enough to provide drama. So here is my primal scream of "still alive" victory: that best engineer who was denied promotion, who I sweated out a comprehensive appeal for with the help ( Read more... ) -
Burnout fuel: appeals, seating. But, hey, Toki Pona!
In follow-up from last time, the in-law visit went okay. There's a curious sort of cabin fever that can set in when one feels stuck at home but without one's whole house actually available to one (say, if a husband is sleeping in one bedroom and the in-laws have taken over the other), and it set in and I had to escape to do workouts. Nothing went ( Read more... ) -
In-laws, promo committee, party thinks
My in-laws are visiting tomorrow... sitting around resting now, after some cleaning and tidying aimed at letting them know we do NOT live like raccoons all the time (though during the course of this tidying, I noticed that most of our kitchen ceiling bulbs are burned out: sigh, raccoon time ( Read more... ) -
Work badness and handstand goodness, redux
I'm mostly just tired? Yes. I'm mostly just tired. But this week reads amusingly like last week. Lots of work, up until 1AM a lot of nights.
On Monday I found out that my boss's boss was quitting, maybe even up and quitting: his last day was yesterday. So, in the middle of trying to write promo support for one of my top folks who's going up (for ( Read more... ) -
Anniversary, work badness, handstand goodness
It's been quite the week. Stress at work, because of calibration and peer assessments for promotion candidates being due; and I did those on time, along with other things that were strictly due, but fell horribly behind on email. (Guess what I get to do this weekend?) I also had a friend give notice, as he is being forced out for "time at level" ( Read more... ) -
So delightful, this Sunday!
This weekend it was easy to believe good things about the world ( Read more... ) -
Friendships and what they could be
Straight women in Tanzania are marrying each other and they make it sound pretty good, combining all the benefits of a stable home with the ability to choose their own male sexual partners ( Read more... )