I am not, contrary to popular belief, one of those dead people ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm going to be at the main office at 9AM for two meetings. Then I'm going to race over to my site to do a little data entry. I'm going to leave as soon as humanly possible in order to 1) make way for the people who are coming in to scrutinize my student files and 2) get home so Claire can drive me to the airport. And then I'll be on ( Read more... )

I have had an Ikea bed, Aspelund, since mid-2005. It has moved from the Bungalow to Apartment #1 to Apartment #2, and has now moved on ( Read more... )

Well, I still haven't found the uneaten twist-tie, and I have not been diligently searching to see if it passed, and Chani is still behaving completely normally, so I can only shrug and assume that 1) predators have evolved to eat thin strips of metal OR 2) Murphy's law is about to kick in.

Tomorrow is my last day of vacation. That's right, I took a 3.5 week vacation. I know everybody hears nonprofit and thinks "low salary," but not everybody realizes that nonprofits tend to make up for their salaries with great benefits. And there's your employment point to ponder for the day ( Read more... )

Here I am in New York! I traveled on Friday, and there was snow at both airports, and miraculously my flight was just early enough that I wasn't held up by the weather at all. It was awesome ( Read more... )

Tomorrow's expected high temperature in St. Paul is -5 degrees Fahrenheit.

Yay Obama!

...But we're stuck with Coleman for 6 more years because of fewer than 600 votes.

I have to say, if anything could help ease my transition from spending 5 wonderful days with Jared, it was voting for a competent and Democratic Presidential ticket on a staggeringly beautiful day.