Hi -t! Work and school have been taking all my time. I've also been sucked into lj land...

My current class ends today - Functions of Management - I should have an A, but won't know for sure until next week. My next class - Organizational Behavior - start tomorrow. FUN!!! Normally I ge a week off between classes, but they are reshuffling schedules around and this is what I ended up with.

Work - we are still short handed. The gal who went to India to get married is back. The one who had emergency surgery is not due back until April at the earliest. I'm not having to pull overtime to meet deadlines anymore, but still doing more than my normal workload.

My birthday is in a week and I'm feeling old already.

Oof!

She's very sweet, and I'm sure she'll be accomodating. She's got little people of her own so I just hate to share our germs with her.

Deena, my niece and nephew adore Dora. It's a cute show for wee ones.

a good guy

He is a good guy. And, I talked to him this morning. Turns out he ordered the flowers before all the mess about my sister yesterday. He said he could just tell I needed flowers, but he didn't know why. His exact words, "I felt a disturbance in the Force. You needed flowers." He's such a geek and that's one of the reasons I love him.

Hey, I took something called Organizational Behavior! Fun class. Learned interesting things, like, any change can improve productivity over the short term. Someone was doing an experiment with light levels in an office and increased it every week. Productivty improved every week. After a while of this, thinking light is great for productivity, the experimenters decided to lower the light levels and see what happened. Productivity still improved. The theory is that it was being paid attention to (or maybe just being measured) that made the workers more productive.

Don't feel old, lexine. Your birthday is Chinese New Year (at least on the calendar I have on my desk) and it's the Year of the Cock! How can you be anything other than 12 with that going on.

Hope she calls, Deena. Backpack is an excellent word.

No feeling old, lexine. You're young and cute and baseball season is coming soon.

"I felt a disturbance in the Force. You needed flowers."

Okay, I'm a total ChiKat and BF 'shipper, now, even more than I was before. That's beautiful.

Heh. Maybe you should hurry up and get married before your sister...(Disclaimer, I only make this joke only because my sister-in-law tried to move her wedding dateup so she'd be married before her cousin, even though she'd known her fiance for less than a year when they got married and teh cousin had been dating her fiance for years and years and years. So, very likely funny only to me. Yet, I cannot resist sharing)

Always good when the disclaimer is longer than the joke.

it's the Year of the Cock! How can you be anything other than 12 with that going on.

Oh, I am totally 12. Heeeeee!

You're young and cute and baseball season is coming soon.

*Smooch* I am actually wearing my A's Hawaiian shirt today. My mom asked why, and I said I just missed baseball and was in the mood. A month and a day from now I WILL BE IN ARIZONA!!!!

My actual b-day is the 9th...just tossing that out there because I am a total b-day attention whore. I feel bad about whoring here, since I've been more of a lurker than not lately.

Maybe you should hurry up and get married before your sister...

Bwah! Uh...nope, don't think so. We've only been dating 6 months. While my sis may get married after dating for half that amount of time, I need a bit longer to make lifelong committments.

When I was a sophomore in college, my oldest sister got married (for the second time) in May and my next oldest sister got married in June. When I flew out for sis #1's wedding, some friends dared me to tell my parents that I was getting married in July. A guy friend said that he'd pose as my fiance if my parents wanted to talk to a fiance. I thought it would be a stitch.

So, I get to the hotel and I was staying in the same room as my parents. My dad was reclining on the bed reading the paper and my mom and I were sitting on the end of the bed talking.

Me: Mom, I have something to tell you. I started dating a guy back in December, his name is Mike. Well, he proposed and we want to get married in July.

Dad: [lowers the paper and peers over the top with horror in his eyes]

Mom: [looks at me through squinted eyes for about 2 seconds] Yeah, right. I would have believed it more if you had said you eloped.

Me: [laughs]

Dad: So...you're not getting married?

Me: No, Daddy.

Dad: Thank God. [goes back to reading the paper]

It was pretty funny.

Oh, dear. Here's my horoscope for today:

Better fasten you seatbelt and put your table tray in the upright position -- because there's a bit of a bumpy ride ahead. For the moment, you can expect one of several rather unusual scenarios to unfold: a) a new and unusual addition to your family; b) a career opportunity in an entirely different field; c) the chance to move to a place you've always wanted to live or d) all of the above. See? Buckle up, now.

Also:

A family member is about to say or do something that will send you for a loop.

Good heavens.

Hee! That's a great story, ChiKat! (eta: more of a loop? Maybe they're forrecasting yesterday)

You can consider everyone partying on Mardi Gras to be rasing early toasts to you this year, lexine. Certainly everyone having morning after Bloody Marys.