Brief report of the day:

Interview with juliana, yay! Also, interview with a good friend, weird! But, dang, I love her workplace and her description of the environment -- fast-paced and crazy challenging and supportive all at once. So different from where I now work. I have really no chance of getting the job, since internal candidates get big huge preference, but at least now I know the environment and the vibe I want to be looking for.

After the interview, I went home to collect Matilda, pump, and meet libkitty at the Ferry Building. I was a few minutes late due to having to run up to the office for a couple of minutes (en route I passed a shuttle bus going the other direction, and in one window was off-and-on Buffista Bridget grinning and waving like mad, which random encounter still makes me smile to think of it).

libkitty was very forgiving (and her gorgeous expressive eyes and cool glasses are just as striking as I remembered from her last visit here), and we had a lovely stroll around the Ferry Building and tasty lunch at Mijita. Matilda was super-ridiculously charming (though very destructive of a half-dozen large napkins), so much so that a random guy walking past us as we strolled through the Ferry Building insisted on giving us some very expensive chocolate as a gift just because she was so cute.

There was also coffee, bouncing, dandling, conversation about churches and libraries and online communities and Allyson's book, some incredibly ripped, shirtless and pretty 20-something boys doing fancy tricks with customized dirtbikes at Justin Herman Plaza, and a great deal of San Francisco just showing off and preening itself before its admirers.

Also, because libkitty is made of sweet, everything was her treat.

Matilda is now fresh out of the bath and somewhat gripey but starting to settle down -- and it turns out that sj's pirate onesie now fits (well, is maybe just a smidge large, but barely enough to notice) so she's all swaddled up in it right this minute. And now I'm off to feed her.

Mwah to all!

Matilda is now fresh out of the bath and somewhat gripey but starting to settle down -- and it turns out that sj's pirate onesie now fits (well, is maybe just a smidge large, but barely enough to notice) so she's all swaddled up in it right this minute. And now I'm off to feed her.

Yay!

tea:

Leftovers have been eaten along with too many See's candies that thessaly and Victor brought us back from the Chicago trip, many glasses of wine have been drunk, and we have two apartment appointments tomorrow. Definitely time for bed.

JZ wins at Friday.

I am packed, mostly. And ... well, I'm mostly packed.

Matilda was not gripey but went into full on swivet after tub.

But the sj onesie fit and looked cute.

JZ and babe are down for the night.

Emmett and I follow soon.

Early game tomorrow.

I need patented Bitch~ma.

I'm in DC (or, actually, VA), with all my luggage and a very sleepy 2yo, and the housing company forgot to leave the key under the mat. So Mal and I are camped out on the porch. He's got something of a bed in my big suitcase, and fortunately it's a mild night (oh, yeah, it's 1:00 am).

Also fortunately, someone here didn't lock down their network, so I'm grabbing some bandwidth to skype the corporate housing people.

So ~ma for a person to arrive with a key very soon, please.

Raq, do you need a place to stay for tonight? We've got extra beds available.

I can come and get you if necessary.

key~ma Raq, and how wonderful is Maria to offer a rescue too?

I love us. We're nice.

I was just thinking those thoughts.

Yikes! Lots of someone-with-a-key~ma, Raq.

I passed my foreign language exam today. (Well, I don't know for sure yet that I passed, but it was ridiculously easy, and a friend of mine who never actually studied French passed it, and I've had seven and a half years of French in school, so I'm assuming I passed it.) This means I'm now officially a doctoral candidate. Only thing left is my thesis.

Eek.