No. I'm not that surprised by unabridg's, either.



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So I woke up a few times tonight because of Roxy (and Melquiades') wheel. It was clacking together in this awfully loud hangover-annoying sort of way, so I finally got up and thought I'd see if I could fix it. Mel's fixed itself when I glared at it. Roxy's kept clicking apart a little bit, but I realized that if you tilted the wheel so that it ( Read more... )

Looks like Kenya is on its way to working out. Either it's U N work with the country team (internal, reform) or with one of the agencies. I'm not sure I have a preference, although if it's the latter there's a possibility of getting paid. The former will potentially provide housing and transportation support ( Read more... )

It's so absurd it's funny ( Read more... )

By the way, for all you GBA folks, I have a couple of friends looking for furniture, kitchen items, etc., etc. If you're moving and need to sell things, let me know!

There's a tool that keeps coming up, half-jokingly, in many conversations: the three buckets. In any interaction involving multiple people, people will be divided (either self-divided or placed) into certain buckets. These are ( Read more... )

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Office outing today. Whew! It was a lot of fun. Kayaking, good-natured competitiveness and water splashing, Apples to Apples (my new fave card game), and a Legal clam bake with lobster, chowder, and a whole lotta dessert (strawberry shortcake, mmmm ( Read more... )

So, I'm sorry that I haven't posted in a long, long time. But just to give you an idea, in the last 39 days I have sent 334 e-mails JUST from my work account. If you want to include my personal account during the same time period, you can tack on another ~240 ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my last day at old work and on Monday (well, Sunday, really, because I have to be on a conference call), I start the fellowship! The folks at --- were so sweet and kept asking if I would have a blog, so I think I'm going to have to create one just for the fellowship year. It's really the only way to keep everyone up to date ( Read more... )