It all started because on Saturday, I realized that Folk and Laura were coming to visit that evening, so I'd have someone around to help me move large pieces of furniture. I've recently gotten a bed (after 15 years of sleeping on a futon on the floor) and the resulting massive rearrangement of my bedroom freed up a bookcase that I could really use ( Read more... )

Becky Zrimsek from Carleton Alumni Affairs contacted me yesterday and asked if I would be willing to lead* a folk dance session at Reunion on Saturday night (June 18 - two weeks from tomorrow). Naturally, I said yes, so there will be folk dancing in Cowling Dance Studio from 8-11 on Saturday night. Hopefully all of you dancing alumni who will be ( Read more... )

For reasons I'm not entirely sure I want to understand, there's one of those old fashioned booths where you get 4 pictures on a strip of paper set up in the atrium of my building. When I asked why this morning, the CHE staff person who was supervising its setup said, "It's for the students," as if that explained it all ( Read more... )

Damn it. I was working so hard at whispering in the Holy Spirit's ear, "Black pope, black pope, black pope," and all I get for my trouble is a non-Italian white guy.

Anybody going to Rome in the near future who can get me a new popener? I need an upgrade...

This weekend, a friend of a friend had a spare ticket to The Nylons at Orchestra Hall, so I was roped into filling out the foursome ( Read more... )

Monday morning, I was sitting, innocently reading my newspaper before heading out to catch the bus for work. As usual, my cats were strutting back and forth across the newspaper, absorbing the daily news through cat-osmosis. What wasn't usual was that they were leaving wet paw prints ( Read more... )

I'm on hold on the phone with my vet (my cats are fine, I'm scheduling an appointment to keep them that way). Their hold "music" is animal sounds. There's a babbling brook noise, cardinal and chickadee song... and what sounds like a very large cat mauling a monkey colony. I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to feel reassured.

Two Homes Are About To Be Blessed ( Read more... )

Sometimes I worry about whether I'm going to grow up to be a crazy cat lady - CSI/Law&Order short hand for someone who lives by themselves long enough that they've developed all sorts of odd habits that no one else would ever tolerate ( Read more... )

In cooperation with another college, we're setting up an automated Windows patching system called PatchLink. We've been working on this for several months now, the last two of which have been spent in a constant state of being within 1 week of rolling it out, only to have something rear its ugly head ( Read more... )