kind of cool is nice. I'm trying to remember the walk I used to take with my childhood mutt Butch down to the marsh by the junior college where there was a big flat rock I would sit on while he tromped around in the mud down by the water but I keep getting interrupted by thoughts of KILL! KILL! KILL!
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Spike's Bitches 41: Thrown together to stand against the forces of darkness
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laga - May 29, 2008 7:50:06 pm PDT #1081 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Laga - May 29, 2008 7:51:36 pm PDT #1082 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
and now I'm worried about my Mom. She worries so much about me I think I shouldn't have told her the boys broke the keyboard. Does gmail have a "recall message" function?
Burrell - May 29, 2008 8:03:28 pm PDT #1083 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Scrappy, J is ADORABLE! You married a funny man.
Pix - May 29, 2008 8:04:56 pm PDT #1084 of 10001
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
WHY am I not more organized?!You keep getting distracted by the shiny?
t runs away really fast
Does gmail have a "recall message" function?Alas, no. But moms worry. It's part of the job. Maybe you should just take deep breaths and distract yourself with pictures of pretty men and women?
My kind of cool news is that I found out today that I am going to be the New Faculty Coordinator for my school starting in the 2008-2009 school year! I'm extremely excited as it is both a big step for me professionally and something I'm really going to enjoy.
The only reason it isn't really cool news is that I'm not being offered a stipend OR class reduction for this time-consuming job. The school's budget got slashed (thanks, Bush), and the new HoS sees me as an "apprentice" this coming year under the previous NFC (who is now the MS director), K, rather than the main coordinator. K says that she thinks that's ridiculous and that, as far as she's concerned, I'm the NFC and she is just around for extra support. She also says that I will almost definitely be able to get either a class reduction or a stipend next year if I can be a good little solider for a year and become the full NFC in 2009-2010. It's worth it, but I wish they'd offer me at least something--hell, even a $500 stipend would be a recognition of the fact that this is an important, and difficult, job.
But still...my first official leadership position! Shiny!
Laga - May 29, 2008 8:12:06 pm PDT #1085 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
my first official leadership position! Shiny!
hurrah!
take deep breaths and distract yourself with pictures of pretty men and women?
an excellent idea.
Laga - May 29, 2008 8:16:24 pm PDT #1086 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
sadly "James McAvoy naked" does not yield the google search results I desired. Mostly Mr Tumnus.
Laga - May 29, 2008 8:34:18 pm PDT #1087 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
If you follow an imaginary line from the R in public radio to where it would intersect with an imaginary line drawn from the U in Russell Kirt, that's where me and Butch used to hang out when I needed to be alone with his dogness. Sometimes there was an egret, and there were almost always dragon flies. I don't think I realized it was supposed to be a nature preserve back then.
Burrell - May 29, 2008 8:34:22 pm PDT #1088 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Congrats Kristin! Where do you teach again, or do you prefer not to say?
Susan W. - May 29, 2008 8:35:30 pm PDT #1089 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
You keep getting distracted by the shiny?
Heh. You're not wrong, and yes, Annabel gets the ability to get lost in the turnings of her own brain from both sides.
Actually, I've been doing pretty well this week. Every day since Tuesday I've been spending 15-20 minutes decluttering our living area and enough time in the basement to go through one box. After that, I come up and write three pages on the WIP. And that's all. I stop, even if I've got energy for more. The house is a mess, but every day there's more visible floor and table surface. I now know three boxes the Important Document is not in. And I'm still on pace for my current writing goal, which is to reach p. 400 of the WIP by 6/18.
If I keep this up for another two weeks, I might actually have...good habits. And maybe then I'll start applying them to eating well and exercising.
javachik - May 29, 2008 8:38:09 pm PDT #1090 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Kristin, that is fantastic news. I know you've been wanting increased responsibility and recognition, so this is headed in the right direction fer shur! Wish they'd give you more money right off the bat, but I can offer you a drinks on me the next time I see you! It's not a stipend, but it's a...drink!
And after today's meandering around Santiago, I might be the first person in recorded history who declares herself a bigger fan of Santiago than of Buenos Aires. The weather had a lot to do with it; it's right after a rain here, so the skies are blue and clear. Buenos Aires was worse then Beijing in air quality, and that's saying something. And in Santiago, when you turn a corner around a basilica or a Cafe Caribe, there's the impossibly big and beautiful Andes! Jesus they're gorgeous. Reminds me of Lucerne, the way they loom magnificently over the city.