My new job has their shit together more than any place I've ever worked -- I got paid today via direct deposit. I started last Monday!

Cool beans, Jesse. Which reminds me, I think today is a payday for me....

It's especially exciting since I basically ran out of money on Monday, and there's still one more bill that needs to be paid.

I am very wet from the knees down. I wonder if my shoes will be dry enought to wear home.

Hmmm... given the weather report, I'd better wear my trail runners and not the open toed shoes today.

You know, when I remember that there's street-sweeping today, and move my car well in advance of the metermaid, I find myself saying "Take that, The Man!"

(In defense of Somerville's streetsweeping, you at least do actually see the actual streetsweeping machines running up and down the streets very busily indeed. So it isn't only a scam to get fines for parking.)

You know, when I remember that there's street-sweeping today, and move my car well in advance of the metermaid, I find myself saying "Take that, The Man!"

At least in my neighborhood, street sweeping is the same days each month. (Most of Chicago that's not so.)

When I was in Minneapolis, they had "snow emergencies." Also, about once a year they'd sweep for leaves, leading me to refer to that as a "leaf emergency." So to this day I think of street sweeping as leaf emergencies....

When I was in Minneapolis, they had "snow emergencies."

We get those in MA in a lot of different towns (in fact, part of my lease is that I can park my car - when I have one - in the driveway when there's a snow emergency signaled by flashing blue lights on some light poles around town).

I know I'm late, but HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! to Megan & B. Congratulations!

I managed to only get lightly rained on on the way to work. Sounds like the trip home will be considerably wetter.

Ouise! I have to run to TA so I can't post with you, but it's good to "see" you!

Please, all of you, make sure your feet are warm and dry. Wet feet bring out my inner-Jewish-mommy, and, well, nobody wants that.

For those rain-soaked today, NC's experience suggests that tomorrow will be better. It's gorgeous here today (if still very humid).

The New York Times today has an article about liposuction of the "back fat" that hangs over your low-rider jeans; also "bra flab." This is in young, obsessively thin women. To which I say, if you bought pants that FIT YOU, there wouldn't be anything hanging over the waistband! Ditto bras. Geez. I was glad one surgeon refused to do liposuction over the pubic bone of the woman who felt she had flab hanging over the edges of her brazilian bikini bottom...