The Term From Hell is now OVER. There are no words for the sheer relief of that.

I'm going off to hang out with cool people for a long weekend. This is a Most Excellent Prospect.

Much has happened over the past 2 weeks; will update somehow when I return.

In the meantime, *exits so you can't see her for dust*.

...to celebrate Most Excellent Events:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAQS!!!!!

Hope you're having a delightful day! *smishes you in a birthdayish fashion*

Thanks for the congrats, everyone-- I'm still a bit stunned, but DEFINITELY looking forward to seeing what the summer brings ( Read more... )

...yoy may as well multitask your geekiness, say I ( Read more... )

Packing and the difficulties thereof, that is. After a fair number of years of semi-regular traveling, I'm pretty good at fitting clothes and necessities into various types and sizes of bag. At the airport Saturday, I saw a number of young women tugging at ENORMOUS wheeled suitcases, having clearly just returned from Spring Break somewhere warm ( ( Read more... )

Despite various delays at airports both to and from the weekend, I had a Most Excellent Birthday Holiday Weekend, courtesy of my Bestest Sister Ever, her Fun Friend who joined us, and my lovely and uber-talented friend C who helped make my birthday dinner one hell of a party Saturday night.

Saw the best production of The Importance of Being ( Read more... )

... I'm getting the hell off, at least for a weekend. Chaos can resume when I return.

Got all my papers marked beforehand, at least.

*exits to pack for tomorrow's flight to NYC*

It's really quite remarkable how much easier it can be sometimes to get to know one's neighbours during or in the aftermath of a crisis than it is at any other time ( Read more... )

Managed to get my morning class taught, other class audited, and necessary brief meetings taken care of, then fled as the winds were starting to pick up and the snowflakes getting bigger an hour or so west of here ( Read more... )

...with the ups particularly good and the downs especially awful. Both exhausting and rather nausea-inducing, emotionally speaking ( Read more... )