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.

The mouseover text on today's Google logo made me giggle.

Much Taz~ma

I believe I'm about to break down and make an appointment with a doctor. Maybe several doctors. It's not normal to be tired and listless all the time and in pain most of the time, even if I am a middle-aged peri-menopausal woman, is it?

One other thing that you might want to look into as a possible cause is fibromyalgia.

Re MFNLaw's experience:

La Feria de Careers - the running of the bullshit?

The vet should be calling us soon to give us the situation... come on Taz!