( Cut for pregnancy post, which not everyone wants to read )

I'm having trouble keeping up with LiveJournal. I'm overwhelmed by work these days - not in a bad way, just in an "I must use my whole brain all day to keep my department spinning and headed in the correct direction, and every time I think I might be able to take a five minute break from anything one of my staffers shows up in my office with a ( Read more... )

In an obituary, but that still counts, right ( Read more... )

See subject line. Technically, I quit yesterday, but since my boss extended his vacation by a day, I couldn't tell anyone I'd quit until I'd told him, so I had quit, but no one knew it. (If a tree falls in a forest, and its boss isn't around to hear it, did it really quit ( Read more... )

So, about a year ago, my office (for federal regulatory compliance reasons) blocked all personal e-mail accounts, and facebook, and LJ, and lots of other sites that allow people to communicate in ways that my company might not be able to track for compliance purposes, from all office computers. And so, while I didn't ever spend tons of time at work ( Read more... )

I love Passover, but I hate the month before. The cleaning and the stress of "I should be cleaning, but I have homework/work/laundry/dinner/cats/Rock of Love/exhaustion." I've gotten some of the shopping done, but we'll be in Michigan the weekend before the holiday for my husband's cousin's wedding (sigh) and the Monday and Tuesday nights before I ( Read more... )

Didn't have time to post in advance of the really long flight, but hi, hubby and I are in Israel, running around doing the tourist and visit-the-sister thing. Hadn't really planned to come during a war, but a) I booked the tickets six months ago, and apparently they don't tell you these things in advance, and b) you woudn't know it from being here ( Read more... )

Hope this year is wonderful and full of happy, joyful, beautiful things and experiences for you. Much love!

[Deep sigh of relief] So, some of you may have noticed that my life has been completely swallowed by The Financial Crisis That Ate New York's Economy. Some others of you I think also know that I had a rough semester at school, since the Jewish holidays in the fall meant that I took a half load for the first half of the semester, but then a double ( Read more... )

Happy (belated) birthday to breadandroses! Forgive my inability to read a calendar. :)