Sunday with the parents was equally nice.

I picked them up from the hotel and we grabbed Brunch at Spoonriver.  This is a local/organic/pseudovegetarian restaurant recently opened in Minneapolis.  The food was simple and AMAZING.  I had eggs poached in green tea with salsa, roasted vegetables, amazing toast, and a slice of pear coffee cake.  I want ( Read more... )

Parents are in town this weekend.  Picked them up from the hotel after teaching, and took them home to play cards.  Had dinner at Christos where we had a GREAT dinner (I had steamed muscles, some of which were twice the size of my thumb).  Afterwards we went to the Theatre de la Jeune Lune and saw Tartuffe.  I always enjoy seeing shows, but I felt ( Read more... )

We had a champagne toast at 3:30 this afternoon at work... it was really weird.... first, drinking in front of the presidents of the company, second, drinking 2 glasses of booze at 3:30 in the afternoon.  It was slightly weird and slightly wonderful ( Read more... )

I've had a pretty good month ( Read more... )

Little Miss Sunshine -- Quite possibly the best thing I've done for myself in a year.

I -heart- public access television.  Cooking bread with a big ol' drag queen followed by touring tuscany with 2nore really bad drag queens who talk about all the Italian boys.  It's rediculous and entertaining... at least for very short periods of time.

Another rejection message on my phone after work today.  I'm getting used to these, but damn it I want a job.

I just threw my resume at 3 more teaching jobs and one HR position at a school in the greater MPLS area.

Blah.

I had my 2nd interview/conducting audition for EPHS this evening. I'm not so sure about it. I came in completely confident, and left a bit defeated. I'm in the final two, so I know they see something in me, but I didn't have a strong hold on the group for more than 50% of the time. They followed me but not with everything I was going for. I ( Read more... )

The time is 10:30pm.
The current temperature is 89.
The heat index is 99 100.

The high tomorrow is 102.
The high for Monday is 104.
My tolerance for another two days like today is ZERO.

That is all.

So... my company just randomly fired another one of my colleagues. So, we have ranged from a team of 3 to a team of 7 and we've lost a total of 7 members in the last 2 years. it's CrAzY ( Read more... )