I just made some poor kid incredibly happy, simply by being the person the Lost and Found is turned into. Somewhow, he managed to leave his wallet with a rather incredible amount of cash, credit cards, and IDs (real and fake) downstairs. A good samaritan turned it in, and we were digging through it for information, when a blond girl on a cell ( Read more... )

Very shortly, the food buyer for my co-op is jaunting off to be a draper for a Shakespeare company in Utah. This happens. She asked me to be temporary food buyer for the last two weeks of the semester. I got the low-down on how it's done tonight. Memorable phrases included "For produce, you call Bubba." and "the phone at Longhorn Meats is usually ( Read more... )

What's work without a little procrastination?


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I have been indoctrinated into another Austin Tradition. I went to the Alamo Drafthouse for the first time tonight. For non-austinites, the Alamo is a small chain (as in, 3 or 4) of movie theatres where they took out every other row of seats and put in small tables. During the movie, they serve you dinner: pretty damn good french fries, a wide ( Read more... )

Tonight at work there was bits of the usual; random group of kids in the Herbarium rocking out to the Fraggle Rock Themesong, Pharmacy students baracading themselves into the Pharmacy Research Center, random students asking questions like "what do you do if people don't leave at midnight?" There was also a rather rambunctious "study group" of young ( Read more... )

Today at work I had a phone call that scared me. The young lady on the line needed a book that was checked out, something along the lines of "Applied Pharmokinetics." She wanted me to recall it for her. This is a process that is much simplier if done online, so I asked her if she had access to the internet. I then proceeded to walk her through ( Read more... )

( VT stuff, cut for sensitive folks )

I just bought my plane tickets to Graduation. I'll be flying in Wednesday, the 23rd, and landing around 4:00. anyone want to pick me up? Otherwise I think there's a 5:15 LCT shuttle and I'll bring a book. I'm staying till tuesday evening, so I can celebrate with all of you monday after you dance your way across the stage. Gods I miss you guys ( Read more... )

The conference has been amazing, exhausting, intellectually stimulating, and pretty damn much everything you want a conference to be. Following my professor's admonishions, I walked up to random older folks and chatted. I wish some of those random older folks had worn their name tags, as the first person I did this to ended up being Jeff Peachy, ( Read more... )

VT is the Home School for my high school. If you're at all into math/science, it's your back up school, if not your first choice. My brother went there. He lived in AJ his freshman year. I know a couple of people who are still there (who are ok. Thank god for facebook).
( thoughts on guns and plans. )