Rarely burns.

That's a good thing to have in a place of residence. Unfortunately, my place of residence has a barely contained wildfire about 15 miles away. The one 10 miles away in the other direction is finally out.

Yay, summer in Utah.

{{{{Sean}}}}

Hurt's still fresh, Sean. I'm glad you saw good friends. Sorry some of them are clueless idiots but you're in a better place so don't let them get to you.

Olivia is munching on carrot sticks that she got out of the fridge herself. I have no idea where she gets this behavior. Her stuffed lab puppy in the toilet--I know where she learned THAT.

{{{Seany}}}

I got some work done today. Not as much as I wanted to get done, but enough, and it gave me a definite direction for what I need to do tomorrow. Also, I was looking through job postings, and found an ad for a position at Ohio State that's pretty much exactly what I want to do. I need to get a bunch more stuff in order before I can apply (recommendations, teaching statement, research statement, CV), but once I have all that done, I'm definitely applying there.

I'm taking out my frustration with my mother by dealing with the stupid on a thread over at Smart Bitches. Dialogue is by and large reasoned, but there's the odd asswipe who thinks that an academic trying to ruin someone's writing career isn't that big a thing.

And Sean, since I'm new to posting on the board, I don't know all the details of what went down, but I do see that it's taken quite a toll on you and I can empathize, since I've been in bad places like that before-- I'm so very sorry and hope that things improve soon.

Safe flight, Sean. California missed you. I could even feel it up here!

Barb, I am still annoyed that in our evening together we never thought to take a picture! But that was a grand, grand evening.

I can't wait to see Cashmere and Jess (and E and D).

Speaking of Facebook; I keep getting friended by people who wouldn't/didn't speak to me in high school. Why in the HELL would I want to speak to them now?

I know, people change, yadda, yadda. I do at least look at profiles and see if there's anything redeeming about 'em now.

Eff 'em, javachik. If they wouldn't talk to you then? Eff 'em right in the ear.

I may not be the best person to give advice about this kind of thing right now.

And thanks, Barb. That means a thing.

IF I have to call comcast and wait again I'll scream.

At my condo in your area last summer at grad school, we had so many problems with comcast that we made one of our passwords "comcast_sucks"

Travel ~ma to all in need.

{{{{{Sean}}}}}