I was so proud of myself with the good morning and all. One navy loafer, one black one.

Big monitors give me headache!

Your desk and chair might not be set up right. Does your workplace provide ergonomics assessments?

One navy loafer, one black one.

Do they at least match in style?

Christ, my blackberry just went off alerting me first morning meeting, and I'm still at home. Major time-switch paranoia, until I looked and saw that whoever sent it set the pre-alter time to one hour before.

Freaking cruel, when you're used to working with 15 minutes warning. But maybe other invitees need it that way.

I had my Monday morning freakout when I arrived to my office, reached over to get my lunch bag and lunch from the passenger seat where I flung them when I got into the car, and couldn't find my purse. I'm sitting there, shrieking, "Where is that g-ddamned thing!!" and then got out of the car to see if maybe I was sitting on it and hadn't noticed. That's when I found that I had been too vigorous in my flinging and had tossed the purse into the backseat while the lunch bag landed in the passenger seat.

I need my morning caffeine, I think. Or a nap.

they are exactly the same shoe, I have it in both colors.

We are in DST hell wrt computers and Blackberrys and Lotus Notes. You would think this would be seamless by now for electronics.

You would think this would be seamless by now for electronics.

Well, it was, until Congress changed the DST dates....

Well, it was, until Congress changed the DST dates....

For values of seamless that seem to be too akin to hard-coded.

Does your workplace provide ergonomics assessments?

haha! I'm at a very small company so, no. I assessed myself to need a foot rest and hand and wrist pads. That's as good as it's going to get. Maybe when (if) we move to a new office.

interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form.

Hmmmm, the title (Negotiating Culture) I could do, the actual argument (about how different postwar French groups used the arrival of American films to pursue their own agendas), I'm not so sure.

interpret your Ph.D. thesis in dance form.

Dynamics of Data Transport on Communication Networks? Maybe because I didn't write it (yet! Hopefully pretty soon! No, really), I can't think of how to dance it.

The MA thesis is easier, I think: Behavior of Traffic under the Influence of Bottlenecks.

I heard a story once about a physics conference which had an extremely tight schedule, so some of the lecturers only had five minutes each to present their talks, and they were not allowed to bring any presentations, pictures, graphs, papers - any aids at all. Just stand for five minutes and talk. One of the lecturers really wanted to have a very important graph presented in his talk, even though it was that short. But, no - no presentations, no transparencies, nothing was allowed, no matter how much he asked.

So he had his wife knit him a sweater, with the graph knitted on it, as part of the sample, and wore it for the lecture.