Cass and Dawn are too kind.

You've met me, I am really not.

That was a fantastic answer. Really fantastic. And it wasn't even disingenuous, it shows why people should hire you. You do work within the rules but redefine the hell out of them at the same time. Awestruck.

Insomnia sucks. This is the first night in a while that I haven't had to take Vicodin for pain at night, and I guess my body got used to it, because now I can't fall asleep.

You've met me, I am really not.

To others, perhaps. You've never been anything but kind and generous and supportive to me. You'll just have to deal...

I hope they feel the same way. This company has a really good corporate culture, even if they're enamoured of Six Sigma certification at the moment.

Oh, Hil. I'm sorry. When do classes start for you?

When do classes start for you?

Next week. This week is meetings and getting things set up and stuff.

To others, perhaps. You've never been anything but kind and generous and supportive to me. You'll just have to deal...

Kind, generous and supportive is easy with you, it's a reflection of what you give back to friends.

I'm just not "kind" in a vacuum. If I am nice to you, I like you and see value in you.

And you? You rock, Maria.

This week is meetings and getting things set up and stuff.

Hopefully this week allows you to slide into the semester rather than being thrown in head-first.

I need to start recalibrating my internal clock myself. I've been sliding back into my nocturnal habits as the current job winds down, which is going to make life miserable if I don't get my act together in time for the new job.

Now I'm tearing up. That post is going into the "Look At When Depressed" file.

I know I've been sappy lately, but the day I stumbled upon you people is easily one of the five best days of my life.

Hopefully this week allows you to slide into the semester rather than being thrown in head-first.

Well, so far, there's been a lot of trying to get all the computer stuff to work. We're using several different online course supplements, and most of them are great on their own, or at least harmless on their own, but they're supposed to all work together and link things that a student does in one with a gradebook thing in another and let the students seamlessly go between them, and it's not so much working. I think the main problem is that these things have a ton of different customization options, so that different universities and different instructors can get them to work however works best for them, but having a hundred different options in each of five programs makes it nearly impossible to test every combination, and just about everybody will end up picking some setting in one that doesn't cooperate with some other setting in another one.

Tomorrow, I think I'll try to prepare my first few days of lecture notes. There's a new edition of the textbook, and they totally reorganized the first chapter, so I need to figure out what topics go where.

Totes regal.

I wonder if I could get Jasmine in a calendar. She can do regal. Maybe.

Yay congrats Maria! Your interview-fu is strong.

Oh Nora, sending good thoughts to you and Taz. Now I am most worried to leave town while my cat is sick. But at least we've got her started on medication.

Oh and Connie? Expect an email soon.