Happy Birthday, Teppy!

Sophia, that house is adorable! Hope everything works out at work. Can you talk to your boss' boss and/or HR about where you might fit in well with all your skills? It sounds like you'd be a great resource for a lot of departments.

I'm bleary eyed and failed to make it to yoga this morning on only the 2nd day back after being in the boot, and enforced sloth, for a month. Fail! I just couldn't get my brain to stfu and let me fall asleep last night. It kept running horror losing my office scenarios. Tedious! Jesus, Brain, it's sad but it's not a Tragedy!

Birthday happies to Steph!

Happy birthday, Tepalina! I hope you're feted all day.

Good luck with the work stuff, Sophia. I have to say every time a boss left my work situation degraded. Though I'm pretty sure there have been several Buffistae who's lot improved after a bad boss left.

lisah, I'm bummed about you losing your office too!

Sophia, how does the timing with the house-buying money from work work? I mean, if you can get an FHA loan or whatever that cuts way down on the money you need to have in hand, and you can get that money from your job, then Bob's your uncle!

The house buying money from work is a little confusing. I think, like many of our "benefits" they make the process confusing so that you do not use it. It looks like you contact them, and they send you to home buying classes-- so I don't think you are supposed to come to them with a house all picked out! But I did realize that for a house that low in price, the grants almost entirely cover the downpayment (it looks like $3,000 from the Uni, $3,000 from the city, and $3,000 from participating banks.)

The kind of nice thing is that there actually about 15 of those cute little houses right there and they go on sale fairly regularly.

Oh- and re: the work stuff-- I have once had it get better and once had it get worse. I will say that my boss said that the dean's first questions was 'Does Sophia know?" and then asked Pam for suggestions for a replacement (the part of her that is my boss is .3 FTE's. The rest of her is a professor who is not my boss.) The people Pam suggested, I like and she asked me for suggestions as well.

Whoa, they found a cure for Hep C!

Go science!

So Master Chef digitally altered a crowd scenes to make it look like more people were there: [link]

Big picture - notice all the duplicates: [link]

Cats Discover Bubble Wrap

They seem rather alarmed.

Sophia, you should totally start the homebuying classes! Just so you're ready, at least.

I realize I'm just freaking out about this because the prices are so low and I'm sad about not being able to buy here....At least, not yet.

I just got an email about a Cornhole event. I swear to god, we don't have that here.