I originally wrote this for the Jeopardy website but they don't seem to have posted it. Possibly because I said inappropriate things about drug use. ANYWAY. If it seems different from my usual LJ style it's because it was originally written for a different audience, although I've played around with it a lot now and it's got lots of bits that weren' ( Read more... )

So, I had a Jeopardy-watching party, and it was loads of fun! It was the funnest party I ever expect to throw on a Wednesday night. I had a bunch of my family and friends come (and at least two people I'd never met but who were very big Jeopardy fans). Most of the people who came didn't really know how I had done, although some of them had guessed ( Read more... )

I'm on Jeopardy tonight! You can watch me and my fellow-contestants being awkward and goofy here: http://jeopardy.com/showguide/thisweek/

There's some construction going on in the ceiling above the library, so half the library is taped off with caution tape. Yesterday one of my coworkers called me to come tell some kids to get out from the caution-taped-off area* - they had just ducked under the tape to get to the photocopiers. This morning, one of my student workers asked if we ( Read more... )

Augh! I am feeling very stressed out about my need to find a place to live and something to drive. One or the other I think I could just about handle but both is difficult. Especially since having something to drive would make it a lot easier to look for a place to live. In short, augh ( Read more... )

Yesterday I went out to dinner with my dad, and before dinner we met up at a bar downtown where he was attending a work function - my dad sells "network solutions" (and possibly other kinds of solutions, I don't know how it works) and this was a bunch of his coworkers and prospective clients ( Read more... )

So, I have been conducting a very brief email correspondence with someone at a library in Montreal and to judge from his spelling and sentence construction English is definitely not his primary language (though he's perfectly comprehensible), so I thought, "ah, I shall use a French-language closing to my email as a vague sort of gesture of ( Read more... )

My grandfather died over the weekend. I'm sad, and I'm sure I will cry lots once I am hanging out with my family and reminiscing about him (we are pretty close) but mostly I feel fine; he was in his late 80s (his mother lived to over 100 and his sister is into her 90s now, so late 80s still seems a bit young) and he died at home (well, at my aunt's ( Read more... )

My latest work-related trauma, in cased your missed me ranting about it EVERYWHERE ELSE ON THE INTERNET, is that I apparently have negative 30 hours of vacation time. I want to barf. I've emailed the human resources guy to ask WTF and left him a voice mail but he hasn't responded. I absolutely cannot face the idea of having to work with no vacation ( Read more... )

Last night I was cooking up some frozen Trader Joe's potstickers and I put my recommended serving size of seven in the pan (seven is the number on the bag, and seven is the number I eat) then dropped one on the floor. Almost without thinking about it I picked it up off the floor, dusted it off and tossed it into the pan with the others. But I ( Read more... )