Hec, in this, like so many other things, you are exceptional.

And my husband does take BART, rather than drive, not because it's cheaper (it isn't -- he can park for free), but because he believes in public transportation and global warming. And, I suspect, because it's easier to do the Sudoku puzzle on the train rather than in the driver's seat.

Ah, but it is very easy to make a perfectly cooked soft-boiled egg:

The problem being that, when you're done, you have a soft-boiled egg. Gag.

I only have to stagger about eight feet to start work, although eventually I have to work my way to the kitchen, where the coffee is.

Yay for -t's job, Robin's massage and Matt's mother.

And, I suspect, because it's easier to do the Sudoku puzzle on the train rather than in the driver's seat.

This, right here, is why I'm excited about commuting on the ferry. If only they had WiFi.

I love my FastTrack, too.

I really don't want to go into debt for what the ass't. director at my library calls "the most expensive union card you can buy " ( an MLS for those that don't know)

I've heard this a lot, and it drives me craxy. This may be true of some schools, but I learned so much at mine. It is certainly possible to learn much of what you need through on the job training, but I still think that grad school can be invaluable.

I've been working in libraries for something like 12 years. There are some skills I could learn that I haven't. ( cataloging) but some of the big issues that I don't know , aren't touched ( budgeting , grant writing,etc) at most of the schools. Most of the people I know that have gone to school, but were in libraries ( more than one is key) before they started were extremely fustrated by the academic vs. real world solutions to problems. Do I think it is a waste of time.. Not from a dollars perspective - out here I will break evn two years after getting a job as a librarian. And I am open to learning new stuff. I am fustrated - because at my old library I did so much. and now, I'm a body at the desk. I am valued - but there are places I can't go that I have been before - cause I don't have the degree. Even though my boss's boss thinks the degree is not nessacary. And my boss is tossing around the ide a that we don't need referenc librarians any more. ( ?!?!?!?!)There is a program I am interested in at Clarion - a special libraries program - mostly because it is 1) outside of my experience and has corse work that concentrates on different kinds of reference. But when can I afford it... who knows.

Ummm... that was a rant. or a brain spill. perhaps I should find food.

We're having breakfast for dinner. DH is frying his eggs. I gave the other one to the dog. None were soft boiled.

Hec, in this, like so many other things, you are exceptional.

Oh, I know I don't have the usual commute. But I hear all the Planners getting hard-ons about pay-only downtown driving (an option they're looking at for SF, and not uncommon in London I think) and that is yet another place where I'd get screwed, since JZ often drives downtown and drops the car off for me to do the commute.

I have the same beef with Berkeley's incessant blocked streets. I've had it with making particular transit options negatives to force people to do something else. I need to get around by a variety of means - facilitate that. Don't impede it.

So glad to hear the good news beth!

I have chosen to take the fact that matt's mom is still the same as good news, From the little bit I have read - that sounds right. But we don't really know. So I am being extra positive. Thanks everyone.

and I thought I was jokeing about being hungry. nope, I just gobbled my meal in no time at all. I even got it all hot in microwave. I forget that I can get that hungry. Usually I pay so much attention to spaceing food nice and evenly, that i forget what happens when I don't eat as much as should throughout the day . ( Diabetics have two concerns- which boil down to the same thing . Eat enough so you don't get cranky, or sick feeling , or pass out. But never eat to over full - because it means bloodsugar going too high. For mean - that means eat often- and today I ate often - but never very much )

Great news about Matt's mom. Thanks for the update, Beth.

sneaks in a hug of Gris before he becomes all orthodox and it isn't allowed

Eh. From what I can tell, shomer negiah is one of the more commonly ignored practices in modern Orthodoxy. Certainly GG doesn't follow it (obviously). Nor does her family, I believe, as I shook her sister's hand today.

Thanks everybody for your support in my random anxiety post. I'm still not feeling fabulous about this whole thing - the fear is still there - but I'm better for the moment. Y'all are nice.

I had other comments to make, but I forgot them.