And with WordPerfect they had this little template thing you were supposed to place at the top of your keyboard so you knew which function key did what.

I remember that! I feel old now.

Since my hard drive crashed, I needed to reinstall Office, but my bootleg copy was corrupt, so I figured I'd go ahead a buy a copy. I can get some great educational discounts since I'm a student. I got Office 2007 and it's taking some getting used to.

It may be pricier than you were planning to go (generally in the $180-300 range for party dresses), but Watters has some totally gorgeous dresses in lickable colors all the way up to size 24.

Huh. I took a look at their site, and it appears that the Macy's closest to where I work carries their dresses. I'm trying Nordstrom tomorrow since Filene's Basement and H&M were a bust today, and I may just pop over to Macy's on my lunch to see what's what.

I cleaned out my cube today. And was reminded what a packrat I am -- there were ten bags of various sizes and bulging capacities, and two medium-size boxes. That's what ten years of accumulation looks like....

I also filled four office-size bins with scrap paper to be recycled, so I feel at least a little virtuous.

My ex-coworkers were all gratifyingly distressed for me, too. I'm almost to the place where I'm feeling worse for the people I'm leaving behind than myself.

Later on, there will be grumbling from me about having to write cover letters, go on interviews where I'm sure I've clicked and then never hear back, et cetera. There's a lot of angst to come, I'm sure, but at the moment I'm choosing a certain amount of optimism about it.

I second JZ's love of Watters and Watters.

According to my crazy busybody neighbor (as opposed to the crazy russian one who argues loudly with invisible people) the pet food contamination is the terrorists going after our pets.

Just thought you all would want to know that.

She's very sweet, just a bit...off.

And with WordPerfect they had this little template thing you were supposed to place at the top of your keyboard so you knew which function key did what.

I remember that. I think I mostly used vi instead, at the time.

I got my mile swim down to 69 minutes! And I kicked on my stomach for 9 more minutes! Yay!!

Now I have to do my dishes so I can actually eat my dinner. Boo!!

Kathy, my daughter and some friends are doing a mini-trialthalon in July. The swim is only a half a mile, I think you should do it, too. Seriously, that is awesome!

I want to get below 300 before I start doing any competitions. My sister has done some mini-triathalons and finds them a blast--I might join her for one next summer!

We have seltzer! It's called Calistoga! Or Perrier! Or uh the Italian one. Pelligrino!

That's not seltzer. Totally different animal.