Happy Day of Raq! I hope it is as fun and interesting and warm as you are!
It's all about the coat.
Host ,'Conviction (1)'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Mar 23, 2006 8:07:20 am PST #4999 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Trudy Booth - Mar 23, 2006 8:08:16 am PST #5000 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
sluuuuuuuuuuuut
esse - Mar 23, 2006 8:09:04 am PST #5001 of 10001
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Oh, yay, happy birthday Raq.
So what grizzly personal topics shall we entertain you with today, Hec.
I whacked a ball about 150 yards today. And also made the ball into the hole at the green in one stroke.
Sadly not grizzly. Really very boring. I wish I had any enjoyment at all for sports.
Aims - Mar 23, 2006 8:09:45 am PST #5002 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
SailAweigh - Mar 23, 2006 8:11:43 am PST #5003 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Happy Birthday, Raq!!!
Interview~ma, Katie. Knock 'em dead. Or, at least, wow them until they swoon a little. Dead is bad, they can't hire you.
Nora, so very jealous of your ale tale! I seriously need to make a trip over one of these years.
Sparky1 - Mar 23, 2006 8:14:07 am PST #5004 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
Job ~ma all around. My DH still hasn't quite settled on what he'll be doing. He'd like to continue to work on one project as a consultant, and w/r/t another project the boss-man would like him to stay because he's feeling like my DH is leaving him in the lurch. Regardless, I suspect a 50% cut in income, if not more. ::kisses cheap, good health/dental/vision benefits that I get from the U for both of us::
What I've done this morning:
- I finished typing up the meeting minutes from last week.
- I arranged for catering for next week's meeting.
- I bought F2F swag, which was the most fun.
- I stopped myself from buying more yoga pants, even though I really, really want them and stared at the sale pages a long time.
I'm undecided about what to do next. My "To Do" list is a very dull read right now.
Fay - Mar 23, 2006 8:20:07 am PST #5005 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Slut?
eta: Yay!
I've had a very nice week. I really like my new role as Resource Chick for Literacy for Grades 1 - 3. My classroom is sparkly and colourful and has Hec's Jazzy Fay music on loop in the background much of the time. I am paid to teach small groups of kids reading and writing and word skills. It ROCKS.
And, what's more, my day always ends with a couple of wee Grade One girls who are both very cute, but one of them is SO adorable I want to kidnap her. I could eat her with a spoon! She's all wicked dimples and cheeky adorability, and reading 'Peg the Hen' at Starfall dot com (which is what we were doing today) was just a blast.
(Ooh! Parents of wee USian Buffistasprog who are learning to read - check out Starfall dot com. LOVELY little website with interactive books and reading activities and songs and animations and stuff. Great fun. Although their bowdlerized versions of Greek Myths I could do without, but all the early years stuff is fab.)
Also, in other rather cool news, people have started commissioning me to do portraits. Which is fantastic. Although I was mortified by the sordid financial side of it - but it all sorted itself out, because I did a couple of portraits for a friend without asking for money, but then she paid me, so now when other people approached me to commission pictures I could just ask for what she gave me, and it's all good. One of the KG teachers asked me to do portraits of her 2 children (baby and 4 year old) for her husband's birthday. He's the vice principal (and one of my referrees). It was his birthday yesterday, and he was over the moon. Came and told me it was the best present he'd ever had in his life.
rubs hands gleefully.
Ooooh, yes - I'm TOTALLY going to be able to get references from him in the future!
...I realise that this is a bit of a 'Hey, I'm fabulous' kind of post, but it's more coming from a 'this is something I feel sort of surprised about and sort of proud of' kind of place. Er. Like a cat bringing you a mouse. Or something.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 23, 2006 8:24:53 am PST #5006 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
well, it's a palindromic slut anyway.
t awaits Fay-comments regarding my St. Andrews babbling
-t - Mar 23, 2006 8:29:24 am PST #5007 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Happy birthday Raq!!
Good luck, KB.
I have accomplished nothing at all today, and my to-do list grows ever longer.
JZ - Mar 23, 2006 8:31:05 am PST #5008 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
My to do list is making me want to stab my eyes out. 90 minutes of dictation by Doctor Wordy McWordystein, which will translate at my current rate of 3-4 minutes' typing for every 1 minute of dictation to nearly 6 hours' work (the other attendings with a comparable workload will turn in 15-20 minutes of dictation, 25 tops). And it's not like her notes are more info-filled and useful than anyone else's; they're more cloggy and convoluted, with a physically painful signal to noise ratio.
She's a nice person, but, fuck, how I'm dreading this. Stabby stabby stabby, whine whine whine.
ION -- vibing interview-ma to Katie Bee right this minute.