Want to know why I can't stop smiling?

1. I got a promotion at work. :) More responsibility, stress, and money.
2. Because of 1, I was able to turn in my two weeks' notice at Macy's.
3. I don't have to work at Macy's next week - my last week - because of wonky hours assignments. :)
4. Yesterday I ordered a long sleeve top and a cashmere sweater ( ( Read more... )

And yes, that's really Christopher Lee.

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Because I know I'm not the only one who felt that... yes, that was an earthquake.

I work on the fourteenth (top) floor of a slowly deteriorating building that's almost a century old. It was NOT fun walking all the way down the stairs.

Edit: I'm still having slight balance issues and generally feeling slightly iffy... and I'm really regretting ( Read more... )

Random question: is anyone else not getting email notices (such as while tracking a post) from LJ? This morning, and maybe since last night, I've only gotten five notices, despite tracking a number of still-active posts. This includes the latest sf-drama post, which had 34 comments when I started tracking it. It's now up to 49 comments and I haven't ( Read more... )

Via firerosearien.

Comment with "Come at me," and:

- I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can get to know you better.
- Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
- Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.

1) If you could be doing anything right now, what would it be? Staffing the state camp I'm ( Read more... )

How the hell have I not watched Firefly before now?? (And, uh, I just finished episode 3, so no spoilers, mmkay? That goes for Serenity, too.) It's funny how many times I've already recognized quotes and pictures from LJ and my friends ( Read more... )

... for geeks, that is.


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I'm slowly working my way through the books in the Star Wars Expanded Universe. (Why? Because I'm a bookworm. And a SW geek.) Most of these books I've never read before, or maybe read once in the year or so after TPM came out.

From Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, this might be the funniest passage in the entirety of the EU:
Obi-Wan Kenobi opened ( Read more... )

There's a joke (I first saw it in late 2002, on an office door of my old county extension office) about how easy it would be for rednecks (sometimes a specific state is mentioned, sometimes not) to find Osama bin Laden and take down al Qaeda. It usually says something like, "Just tell them the following things: 1) There is no "bag limit". 2) They' ( Read more... )

This is from a blog post which is, quite possibly, the most amazing thing I've read in a long time ( Read more... )