I have made progress on a difficult work issue. I am being purposely vague, because the effects this will have on work are not entirely clear yet, but I believe the change will be very positive for me. Very excited!

I try not to go on about my exercise, because really, no one but me cares. But man, today! 75 minute aerials class. Followed by a 75 minute walk (from aerials, past my house to the pharmacy and then back home) because the bus would have taken even longer. Followed by roughly 30 minutes of yoga and stretching, because I haven't done a good stretch ( Read more... )

I have in the past realized that when I'm crazy busy, things start falling out of my brain. Things that I need to remember and act upon, specifically. So I now put absolutely everything in my calendar immediately. Which helps a lot, except when something doesn't go in my calendar (usually an SCA event) or when I don't check my calendar because I' ( Read more... )

Soooo... today I went to my office (includes a mile walk), gave two massages (yay! I love giving massages), went home (another mile walk, and did I mention the freezing wind?), went to my aerials studio for an hour of pretty focused practice time, came home, and did not entirely die. It was a hell of an act of will to make dinner, but I did.  I ( Read more... )

Look, I think some restrictions on gun ownership is a good idea. I don't think the second amendment gives everyone in the US blanket rights to own whatever gun they want, to purchase it instantly and without background checks, or to freely trade and stockpile guns and ammo.  I don't have a perfectly worked out solution to balancing rights and ( Read more... )

Prompted by several folks being WRONG on Facebook (I know, you're dying of shock.) This is directed toward said wrong, racist assholes, not you, my lovely friends ( Read more... )

Hudebnik has created what I think is an eminently reasonable petition to the White House to prioritize economic recovery over deficit reduction this year. I would like to think this isn't even something Obama needs to be told, but I'm just a hopeless optimist.  Go on over and sign http://wh.gov/UErj

There was a story in the Boston Globe about how everyone's converting to cheap natural gas, and heating oil companies are merging or going out of business.  I have considered converting to natural gas, but here's my issue: the reason it's currently so cheap is fracking.  Fracking is a process that may well be poisoning groundwater and destabilizing ( Read more... )

It's always the same when I arrive on the scene after the squeaking has stopped.  Two weasels, usually slightly tousled, stare at me demanding that I Fix It.  The difficulty is, I cannot tell the difference between weasel for "he's sleeping in my bed and when I tried to make him move he screamed rude things at me!" and "I was just sleeping and then ( Read more... )

The radio in the kitchen is on NPR. I put it on while washing dishes.  On came Tom Ashbrook interviewing two college newspaper editors about their choice for president, a woman from Virginia for Romney and a man from Ohio for Obama.  The Romney supporter was super on-message, saying that four year degrees may not be a realistic choice for some poor ( Read more... )