I stayed at the office until after 7:00 last night, and returned at 7:00 this morning. My last 48 hours have been spent drafting, reviewing, and revising a proposal. This happens to be the first one we as a department are submitting as prime on a commercial opportunity, which makes this my very first solo proposal-writing experience. As you ( Read more... )

I just got another call from Comcast trying to sell me their cable internet service. According to my caller ID, this is probably the fourth call in a week, though it is the first time someone was lucky enough to reach me in person. He wasn't halfway through his song and dance before I interrupted him and asked for specifics on the price. He ( Read more... )

There must be something about the presence of the sun outside combined with warming temperatures that motivates me, thus making me more productive. I have gotten quite a few tasks accomplished at the office thus far, ran some errands at lunch, and I plan to clean the house before dinner. The staff will be around to clean our convector units and ( Read more... )

For the last few weeks, I have been receiving cryptic emails from someone at the International Spy Museum, located in the district. Today's installment takes the cake.

( Josh who? )

I have been busting my butt trying to put together an itinerary and get some appointments for a colleague who was supposed to be visiting from San Francisco early next week. I had nothing for her when I left yesterday and was sure it would be on my head if I wasn't successful today. Upon checking my voicemail this morning, however, I learned that ( Read more... )

I had a phone attached to my ear all day, and still had quite a bit to show for it upon leaving the office. I welcomed the moderate breeze outside and the sun on my face as I walked from the bus to the drugstore and then home, even though I know mother nature is only teasing us. I got a phone call from a friend I hadn't talked to in a couple of ( Read more... )

It was fun playing hostess for a few days, but it will be nice to have the place to myself before I leave for Seattle on Thursday. We had a number of heated discussions, laughed until our whole bodies ached, and I think each of us managed to make complete asses out of ourselves at least once. I owe Eric's buddy Stan big-time after calling him ( Read more... )

My LJ is in desperate need of a makeover. However, this is something that just cannot be done by a blind person with any sense of confidence and security. I took a wild guess on the layout, but the imagination can only go so far on the themes. For example, just think of the words deep melodrama, lower the curtain, and satin handshake as theme ( Read more... )

I was running the vacuum under my kitchen table last night when I suddenly heard a groaning/shrieking sound. I immediately turned the machine off knowing that my dumb ass had probably run it over something that it couldn't suck up. This object turned out to be the AC adaptor for my laptop! Only an inch or so of the cord got stuck in the thing, ( Read more... )

Why do we choose to worry about all that needs to be done as we sit on our thumbs and do nothing rather than simply buckling down and getting things off our plates? If I spent half the time on a given task that I do worrying about it, I would be incredibly productive and have more time to relax that I know what to do with ( Read more... )