Both kids are officially at school and have started their respective "last firsts". Her last first day of High School and his last first day of Elementary School.

Aw. It's so hard to believe how fast they're growing up. Even though K-Bug is already so mature for her age. And so very snarky, too! She texted me today and I swear I smiled for about an hour. Senior! Wow.

Congrats on the job offer, meara!

Gloomcookie, I hope the mid-term was easy as pie and that the cranky subsided because of it.

So, I got a wonderful raise (27%!!) and a new position within my current company this afternoon. I'm absolutely giddy about the money, obviously, just nervous about going from a bi-monthly paycheck to a monthly paycheck. Especially this month when my usual paycheck on the 15th will be cut in half. Eep. I foresee charging groceries and gas on one of my credit cards in the near future.

27%!!

Drinks are on Nicole! Congratulations!

I would like to point out that I moved east, from the west coast. (I'm contrary!) We'd love to live in Seattle, but it is the one city where there is a glut of my librarian specialty.

Holy crap, Nicole! That's awesome!

Drinks are on Nicole!

Totally! People just have to come to Denver for the drinks, though.

Phew. That was easier to get out of than I thought it would be.

Holy crap

My immediate reaction was exactly that. I was expecting maybe 12 - 15% but certainly not 27. Just need to get through September.

Any end in sight to the unbearable heat out in LA, Kristin?

Not Kristin but... when the heat breaks I will change my tagline.

Woohoo Nicole!! Congratulations, lady!

Still no mid-term. She is waiting until the end of class so we don't take off right after. Wench.

Ooh, that IS wenchy. Good luck on not braining her, and good luck on your exam!

Am done with work now. Hungry.

I applied in total to 3 places, even though I was sort of considering about 8. I got into 3, came to my first choice and sort of got stuck. Not that I regret it.

I go home now.

She is waiting until the end of class so we don't take off right after.

Rude! Which probably means not so much with the cranky subsiding, eh? Ick.

Poor LAistas. We're still getting close to 90 toward late afternoon but it cools down considerably late evening and early morning now. Bless. Sending cool breeze~ma LAward.

The heat is supposed to break tonight, so starting tomorrow we should be much happier campers here in LA land.

Let me sum up lunch at my prep school: Chime. Faculty leave the lounge and go to their regular tables. Chime. 350 students file in to their assigned tables (which changed every two weeks). Chime. Grace. Students waiters bring out food. Eat. Waiters clear and bring dessert. Chime. Announcements (if you wanted to make an announcement you stood up by your seat until acknowledged by Mr. Compton at one of the front tables--these could get very interesting). Dismissal.

It was all very Dead Poets Society.

Man, I thought my high school was regimented! But our lunches, at least, were fairly flexible (which they had to be; in an all-girls' school, figure that at any given time, 6-10% would be starving themselves for sports or just to be thin, and another 10-15% would be puking their lunch back up before Religion class, and there'd be no way to make lunch period particularly structured, or at the very least, there was no way to ensure that 400 girls would actually, y'know, *eat*).

Of course, those of us who did actually eat lunch and not barf it back up weren't exactly paragons of nutrition; IIRC, the lunch of choice at St. Ursula Academy, back in the day, was Reese's Cups and a Diet Coke. Num.