Anticipation (for me, anyway) so often laps reality. I just got off the phone with a creditor to whom my payment is going to be late. I have been dreading this call for the last hour and girding myself up to dial the number. He was pleasant (I was expecting doom and gloom and nasty threats) and just wanted to know when he could expect payment. Ugh.

Campus is deserted. I feel like I'm in a zombie movie--and me without a flame thrower ;). I think I've seen two other people in my building since I got here 2 1/2 hours ago.

More snow ( Read more... )

Just got done shoveling yet more snow. Ugh. The street in front of my shop wasn't plowed when I got here this morning, but was by 9:30, with the resultant berm of gray snow and snow chunks blocking my drive. I'd gotten done shoveling the walk and a clearing in front of the parking lot door and pruning the icicles so they don't become icicles of ( Read more... )

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It has been sooooo slow the last couple days. predictable, given the snow dump and the difficulty in navigating thereon, but dayum.

(Shop mascot) fluffy bunnies would be seriously emo right now, but Serge Gainsbourg's Comic Strip is playing, and that song just makes me happy.

So Spokane got a lot of snow in the last few days ( Read more... )

Folks who get crabby at you when you don't meet their (unagreed to) expectations.

(A guy just came in asking me to change a ten dollar bill so he could have bus fare and got indignant when I told him I couldn't.) Feh.

Listening to Martha, off of Tom Waits' Closing Time.

Called the Spokane Regional Health District; contrary to all my expectations (see: previous experience) I do not need to procure a special license to deliver food. I guess the $1300 some-odd dollars I paid them in August and September was enough of a bureaucrat tithe. Yay ( Read more... )