It was a good ending.

Whoa. I spend the day away from the board and so much happens.

Lordy.

Much strength and grit and healing ~ma to your colleague and his own Raq. I'm holding a vision of both those women standing upright and whole.

Happy birthday to the birthday babies and happy anniversary to Hec and JZ. I loved seeing your reception photos and can still remember exactly what the cake looked like!

Another couple of recommendations:

Athleta Title 9

Not cheap but great selection and well worth it for such a big event! There's also another company that makes athletic gear for women that I'm blanking on the name of. It's mostly bike gear, though. My bike rider friends swear by it.

Thanks for the tips lisah. I'll check them out!

I've got so much bike gear left from those days. And I'm really, really wistful about not doing endurance cycling anymore...but I really have retired from that.

Walking may not be enough of a challenge for me, but I'm just too scared to get back on a bike. Too many falls of my own and too many serious injuries (and one death) on bikes for people I know.

Still, love the gear part of it!

I got a little sniffly at the GG finale too, especially when Luke said I just want to see you happy my allergies got really bad. And I loved Emily trying to come up with a way to keep Lorelai coming over for dinner although I didn't like the way she kept interrupting Richard when he was trying to compliment Lorelai. Given that he's not inclined to hyperbole or grand emotional pronouncements, this was big for them and I got a little misty there, too. LOVE Edward Hermann.

Raq OMG. Bad things need to stop happing to Buffistas and friends/relatives of Buffistas.

JZ+Hec Happy Anniverary

Megan--Happy Birthday.

Skippy McSkimmerson apologizes if I've left other important events of the day.

It was a good ending.

It really was. And Vortex, I couldn't agree with you more. I loved all those parts too.

I'm such a sap. I cannot stop crying at this stupid Gilmore Girls Finale.

I cried pretty much through the whole thing. Such a good ending. I loved Luke. I'm sad to see the show end, but it ended perfectly.

My Tivo got screwed up and I lost the last five minutes of Gilmore Girls! (I have no idea what the problem is. There's a five minute space there where trying to play or rewind or fast-forward into that segment makes the Tivo freeze up. Brand new Tivo. I am Not Pleased.)

Anyway. Can someone whitefont what happened? I got up to the point where Sookie had told Laurelei that Luke planned the party, and she was walking over to him .

Hil She thanked him and they kissed, then they showed Lorelai and Rory finishing the packing, and they went to Luke's for coffee and breakfast. Lorelai was wearing the necklace that Luke bought for her.

Thanks, sj.

I finished grading finals today. Nothing more I need to do this semester!

Also, I managed to get a good half the grad students in my department angry at me with a single email. (We're moving to new office space, and we needed to arrange ourselves into offices. I stupidly volunteered to coordinate them. Asked everyone to tell me what their preferences were, and arranged it as well as I could based on all of that. Eleven of the 14 people were either happy with it, or OK enough with it that they said it was fine. Three people sent me emails about how I didn't put them where they wanted to be, and it's not fair that I'm arranging the offices because of course I'll put my own preferences first, and they should have priority because they're fifth-year students (um, one of them is. the other two are third-year), and how it should have been a faculty member rather than a student arranging this (well, the faculty member in charge told us to work it out amongst ourselves.))

After way too many rounds of this with these same three people I gave up and, with another grad student, went to talk to the faculty member in charge of this stuff and told him that it was getting out of hand, and we needed him to just send out a list of what the offices were going to be. We told him what all the contraints were, and we sat down and worked out an arrangement together. It's not really anyone's ideal arrangement, but at least now, if people are going to bitch about it, it won't be to me.

I just drove like 30 miles with a new jogging stroller (in the box) on the Miata. Fear me.

I also have acquired a copy of several of Shakespeare's plays done as role-playing games for d20.

I haven't done the dishes, but whatever.