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Plane ticket: booked.
Statistics text: packed.
Lab assistant: rescheduled.
Boss: informed.
Replacement housesitter: trained.
Recovery package: compiled.
Mother's Day gift: oh my god, Mother's Day.

I'm just so jealous of all the attention that Sister and kitsune714  are getting that I tried to break my toe this morning.  We'll know tomorrow if I've succeeded.  (I've broken this one before, and it involved crying that did not happen in the bra store today, so I'm thinking I'll need to try harder.)  Joy of joys, I have plenty of ice left over from the ( Read more... )

My boss was supposed to go to DC, and got his trip delayed by a month by that storm-of-the-century blizzard.  Now he's supposed to fly to London, and Eyjafjallajokull is snarling up the European airports.  He's a bad penny.


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I thought the bad things were supposed to come in threes, but between Marti, Leah, kitsune714 , and my family, we've got two deaths, two hospitalizations, and one bad breakup in one week.  Enough, please.

In funnier news, thanks to a link from miss_porcupine , I see that the Marines brought caps, balls, suits, coaches, and workout plans to Helmand Provice to start a water ( Read more... )

Bullshit moment of the day: sitting in my bathtub reading National Geographic's water issue, thinking about having to go pick up a bag of ice every evening this week because my refrigerator is broken and my maintenance guy is useless and my food is in an ice chest in my kitchen and how that is---not at all like this woman in Ethiopia who spends ( Read more... )

Advances, None Miraculous: Proposal submitted, writtens and orals next month (help me baby Jesus), confirmed fusion results today (success!), fellowship applications in progress.

Suffer the Little Children: Sister came down with a flu from hell or somesuch on Easter, ended up with two ER trips before they got it all under control.  Some sort of goat ( Read more... )

And sure enough, I head for California and a cold Pacific front.  Happy Easter!




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My neighbor (the one who I've reported for having repeated, loud, domestics with her boyfriend of seven years who she has told me she's breaking up with five times over four years I've known her and who knows I don't approve of the volume of their relationship and does not know I'm the one who reported them though she does ask me not to every time ( Read more... )

Loved the premiere of "Justified."  It's like Seth Bullock got reincarnated and showed up in Kentucky to get in the way of those who think it's their god-given right to be awful.  And I support that.  This show's got sound issues: Raylan Givens is so quiet you have to crank up the volume, and then something explodes.  There will be a prize for ( Read more... )