And the incidents of it's a small world just keep coming ( Read more... )

1) My mother was reading through a list & discovered Evans (the brother of someone who was my friend from the time we were in 5th grade to like 3 years ago) was placed by STEP (the Stanford Teacher Education Program - which we work with & share space/materials with) this year. Very odd as we just had a discussion wondering what he was up to 2 days ( Read more... )

So somehow Ray, my boss, convinced me to take Intro Education Statistics. He wants me to so that 1) I can help analyze the data next year (he's scraping the funding together to try to make me just his administrative assistant) and 2) to be a study buddy with Peter, a doctoral student who works on our project whose undergrad degree is IR & has a ( Read more... )

For some reason everyone I see has become injury prone lately ( Read more... )

I am soooo bored. Of the 9 people who give me things to do, my mother has been the only one in the only one in the office for the last day & a half due to misc. conferences & vacations. And for the day & a half before that, my boss was monopolizing my time - meaning that despite having several 20-70 min stretches where he had nothing for me to do, ( Read more... )

I got paid ( Read more... )

My grandfather fell ( Read more... )

I went to my county fair & the Pittsburg Renn Faire this weekend - very different groups of people at each let me tell you ( Read more... )

La. La. La. That's about the state of my mind right now. I told my boss a few days ago that I was running out of things to do, and he said that's fine, he has alot more for me to do. But then he was out of town for a day, then mother wanted us both to take the day off to celebrate her birthday, and now he's in an all-day meeting so I have _nothing_ ( Read more... )

Oh. My. God ( Read more... )