Totally random (as I'm getting ready to do my taxes), I may be the only person who got paid not only from UCLA last year, but also USC.

Horses ok is a big selling point out here. Also, if you can use the water, big points for that.

And now for something completely different: Guess what? My building is on fire!

No, really, it's not. But a bunch of firemen and a big truck just pulled up outside our door from the fire station that is literally just across the street, saying that someone had called in or the police had called or something saying there was a fire at the Kennel or in front of the Kennel or something.

But there's totally not. And I didn't even notice the firemen until they were, like, stomping around outside. So if there was a fire, I would be dead now!

Kinda alarming, despite the lack of fire. In point of fact, it is quite cold, as the building we're staying in does not have heat.

Is there a craigslist for where you are, Liese? You need a new place, too.

Who put you in charge of the weather?

The powers that be are.

I'm over the rain. It's official. The fact that LA has gotten twice as much rain as Seattle this season so far proves that there is Something Very Wrong going on here.

Totally random (as I'm getting ready to do my taxes), I may be the only person who got paid not only from UCLA last year, but also USC.

Nah. Adjunct professors bop around. I can think of two off hand, and those are just two professors that I actually personally came into contact with.

I think you might have better luck noticing it if there actually is a fire, Liese. No worries.

Maybe I should go wander over to Wendy's for dinner. No cooking, and it's cheap. The down side would, of course, be all the rain, though.

I know I do. And, no, no craigslist for here. You can barely find listings for where I'm looking, anywhere. Which I suppose is good, because that means, fewer people! But it makes the internet searching difficult.

I'm not trying to torture you.

Oh. I guess all that talk about cars and TiVo fooled me.

The powers that be are.

Oh, right. I forgot how the powers are, like, totally obsessed with me.

I'm over the rain. It's official. The fact that LA has gotten twice as much rain as Seattle this season so far proves that there is Something Very Wrong going on here.

Yeah. What you said.

The down side would, of course, be all the rain, though.

And you know, Wendy's is bad for you.

But Alibelle, I get paid from USC/UCLA for work done in the same period. It's not like one semester I'm at one and one I'm at the other. Also, that I get paid through the district and through a private foundation.

Kat, you mean because of which schools they are, or just because it's different ones? Because one of my professors is teaching a class at my private school and at a city school this semester. As well as working for a private firm.

Because of which schools they are. It's just funny to me.

So, I told the director at UCLA that I do work with that I'm flirting with the idea of going half time next year and her eyes lit up. I think if I do, she's going to want me to work for her half time.

Which might not be bad.