In less stressful news, I was able to rinse alot of tension out of my brain yesterday by reading the Mark Reads blog entries for "John Dies at the End" and "My Immortal." I may be in danger of actually reading My Immortal for the lulz at this point, because since our lab is packed, I am stuck with alot of time at work spent at my desk. I should be ( Read more... )

I just read this article after seeing it liked off an industry newsletter: "What You Could Gain By Losing Your Mind" by Erika Napoletano. Essentially it chronicles the lead up to and results from a talk she gave in Boston, "The Not-So-Fine Art of Losing Your Shit" in which she went confessional on a packed house about being fed up with her life and ( Read more... )

I am starting to freak out. I just got a notification from the relocation coordinator (separate company from my employer) about an expense I filed for reimbursement a couple days ago. It won't be approved, becuase I was classified/approved by my employer as a renter. I don't really know why, since I've been pretty clear from the get-go that I am ( Read more... )

Went ahead and scheduled the move dates with the moving company - we're targeting October 29th and 30th, assuming a close date of October 31st. Then the dates of November 1-4 are listed as move-in dates. Whee ( Read more... )

We’re drawing ever nearer to actually closing on the house we like in Manville. Just 3 days ago we had the inspection done (the timing worked out fabulously, as I had taken 2 days off work to go to the Muse concert and then to just recuperate and hang out with Jenn - so I didn’t have to take any additional time off for Chuck to go accompany the ( Read more... )

I've become a bit disappointed in Blockbuster's DVD rent-by-mail availability. It used to be that a title would pop up as "High Demand" maybe 10% of the time - now it seems 90% of the movies I want to watch (retro anime series DVDs excluded) are on High or Very High Demand all the time, meaning that months will go by before I might get a chance to ( Read more... )

We made an offer on the house we liked - $190K from an asking price of 194.5K. They accepted! Now of course we need to slog through attourney review and then inspections to make sure things are up to snuff, but we're on the road to somewhere ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, Chuck and I got to finally see the three houses we were supposed to have seen about a week before. The first was a halfway decent 3-bedroom place, but it was an estate place that had been moderately polished up after the previous owner passed. The carpets were new, but were all the same uniform beige, and the linoleum was resonably ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday, Chuck and I gathered our supplies and Lucia and packed them into the Subaru to head north to Bridgewater for a househunt. My parents were meeting us there - they were planning to visit anyway, and they had offered to stay in the same hotel and watch Lucia while we focused on the home tours on Thursday morning, then drive back to ( Read more... )

Next week we're going househunting in the Bridgewater area - we'll probably have all of 2-3 properties to see, but we're going! Mom and Dad are going to come down and meet us there, and they will watch Lu for us for the brief time we will be touring. I booked a hotel through the company's travel service, but had to keep in mind that the parents ( Read more... )