I'm looking for some freelance work to store up a little extra cash. I'll happily do copy editing, correlations, data entry, website updating, or anything that a) similarly employs my fussy, detail-oriented nature and b) can be done from home ( Read more... )

I am a moron.

The reason the amount on the letter from the bank and the amount in the online mortgage calculator differed by about $35k is that the bank didn't take into account my down payment. They didn't look at my bank statements and determine how much I could put down (the way college financial aid apps do, which is my only previous ( Read more... )

ETA: I am stupidI have been "looking for a house" for six years now. Somerville is the longest relationship of my life by almost six years, and I knew by the two-year mark that I wanted to get married. Unfortunately, the ring is too damn expensive and the wedding is too damn expensive and I'm going to be the mistress with no legal claim forever ( Read more... )

1. I cannot have another conversation like the one I had at lunch today, in which my normally sane colleagues freaked out about the fact that we all pour from the same plastic containers of salad dressing and use the same ice cream scoops. OMG the germz!!1 ( Read more... )

There isn't much call for an "in_parentheses Endorses..." post this time around, as my Ward 2 ballot is mostly uncontested. C'mon, Somerville, be more divisive!

I am directed to vote for four Aldermen-at-Large out of a roster of five (it's Alderman musical chairs!), so let's take a look at the contestants (endorsements in red)...

( Your better politicians will hire someone with a basic grasp of HTML )

Do you have a favorite short scary story that would be easy for me to find in the next week? My 8th grade writing club meets the day before Halloween, so of course we're going to write ghost stories. I want to set the scene by reading one (by candlelight in a library study room -- don't tell my boss).

Any suggestions?

Does anyone have a lightbox-style fly trap that I could borrow, like right this fucking minute? Seriously. When I left the house this morning, there were maybe 4 or 5 flies in the kitchen. When I got home tonight -- after a fucking 12-hour day at work, mind you -- my kitchen and dining room were full of flies. There could easily be 100 flies in ( Read more... )

Hairstyle is the one part of being an adult I haven't managed to figure out (career), fake convincingly (investment), or sidestep (car ownership). Some days my hair looks great, most days it looks unnoticeably okay, and plenty of days it looks stupid. There is no rhyme or reason to any of this, as far as I can tell ( Read more... )

in_parentheses has updated her relationship status to "single" (for those of you not on Facebook). Oh god, it hurts. Three years is a hell of a lot to say goodbye to. It needed to happen, for both of us. We've spent more time "working on our relationship" than enjoying that relationship for awhile now. There's more to it, of course, but... we aren't the ( Read more... )

Since graduation on Sunday, two of my now-former students have friended me on Facebook. I love them and will be happy to keep in touch with them, so thumbs up to this development.

The trouble? Sometimes they take tests entitled "What's your sex style?" And then I have to see the results.