What's very useful when I'm typing things is to have the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack stuck on a loop in my head.

Probably because I've played on a loop off my computer three times today.

Ahh!!! Today's Google doodle is in honor of Richard Scarry! I so want copies of the books I adored when I was wee, wee little!. If only they weren't so damned expensive.

Fuck me sideways. Landlady is letting me stay past lease expiration at pro-rated rent. But new tenants want to move in Thursday night. I was planning to leave Friday morning. This is going to be interesting. Apparently, all parties seem to be flexible to some "overlap," trying to establish what that would mean. It might mean that I don't have to clean before I leave, which would be cool with me.

That's weird, smonster. If it happens, make damn sure the landlady does the walk-through, checks off on the list, and gives you a copy.

Smonster, good luck with that. When do you leave?

Good luck, smonster.

I'm ridiculously bored and need to do something, but I don't know what to do. I'm thinking though my options, and can't come up with much -- the stores that are open on Sundays will be closed pretty soon, I already had dinner, and the only bars within walking distance are kind of blah.

I mean, it's not much of a change, but it's a little added pressure. Oh well, I do my best work with a tight deadline! As we drove back from the beach today, my sister took notes for me as I did several to-do lists for different contexts, so it was good to get all that out of my brain and organized. And I do have a lot of help this week.

Thanks for the reminder, Erin.

It's a PITA, but oh, well.

You're moving to New Orleans this week!! I'm so...uh, jazzed. Ahem.

Go smonster, go!

So, just so everyone knows that I have brought the whole Tino situation to a close, I have to share the email I sent him (and the rest of the senior admin) with you. I think I did well.

Dear [Tino],

Thank you for meeting with me on Friday. I'm so glad we have resolved this situation to everyone's satisfaction; I will send a check for $300 later this month. I do want to clear one thing up that I think may have been unclear during our conversation. The question I had had about the legality of the wage deduction was not an indication that I was unwilling to contribute to the cost of the laptop or take responsibility for my part in the accident. As I mentioned when we spoke, [ND] and I own a small business ourselves, so I had a vested interest in the legal answer from both sides. If it had turned out to be illegal to charge me directly, I had intended to offer to donate the equivalent amount to the general fund as an act of good faith. Alternatively, [ND] and I had talked about the sound equipment [School Name] usually rents from our company for the US and MS theatre productions. We have always given the school a reduced rate, but we were looking at the possibility of donating it outright for the first couple of shows, which would have more than covered the price of a new laptop. This is moot now, obviously, but I wanted to be clear that my intent was simply to verify the law, not to evade responsibility.

I've been trying to take [Head of School's] graduation speech to heart about not letting societal beliefs about assertive women stop me from speaking up.

Many thanks,

[Pix]

We have always given the school a reduced rate, but we were looking at the possibility of donating it outright for the first couple of shows, which would have more than covered the price of a new laptop.

Oh snaaaaap.