tornado folks! be safe!

sparky, the interview was good and I hope the exposure gets you info on Sass!

msbelle, sounds annoying.

Sox, we'll be in Ohio in August.

In other news? 8 teachers at my school have been let go. That's a DAMN lot. One of them was RIFed from the district and is a friend. They have taken her line of AP classes and given one of those classes to a teacher who does not teach and was a Must Place after he told an 8th grader at another school that he should kill himself. AWESOME.

I am trying to ride out this wave of change at work with calmness, but it's not working. At. All. I hope that I can swing a slightly different more beneficial schedule.

I skipped to the end recklessly to say Buffistas are awesome, as usual, and I saw FOUR of them today, which was pretty cool.

And P-C, if you're around, I met Mira Grant and got Feed signed (because the guy giving out the next one said I needed to read Feed first), and said, "My friend [P-C] has said incredible things about this book," and she beamed, and said, "YOU KNOW [P-C}?! Awesome!"

msbelle, good luck training the new boss to your awesomeness.

Tornadoes suck.

I'm booking my tickets to Vegas for Roller Con! SQUEEEEEE!

Did you see Barb win?! I am so jealous; I would be a book geek and go to that meeting.

I'm booking my tickets to Vegas for Roller Con! SQUEEEEEE!

I need to do that too! Soon!

Doing a 5K tomorrow. Provided that I can move in the morning after today's workout. I'm trying to think of anything I might be forgetting. I have clothes, a bottled water, almonds, and socks. Running shoes are at my desk at work. I'm picking up my team shirt and bib tomorrow.

I predict that I'll run maybe half of it, considering that I just started this running business and haven't built up any stamina.

Yikes, Kat! That's upsetting.

msbelle, I remember during my temping gigs between programming gigs, I had to tone down my production. I was a data entry clerk for a phone company, and really, all I was supposed to do was take the numbers written down on a piece of paper and type them into a dumb terminal. Every day. Not only was I a faster typist than anyone else in that office, I could have easily programmed a script to do what they needed. I mentioned it once, but it was pretty clear that not only was that not wanted, but it would have caused the loss of about six jobs. So I didn't say anything more about, and I typed my numbers, and I slowed down to ensure accuracy, and I got my paycheck. It was fine. It was good solid work.

And then the company was bought out and the replacement company gave me a lovely commemorative block of lucite to thank me for my (three weeks of) dedicated service to the company.

Yay, Shrift! 5K shouldn't be too hard, if it's not too hot. Just take it easy and have fun.

5K = awesome! Have fun, Shrift!

Did I mention that K and I and got entrances to the Nike Women's Half Marathon in San Fran in October? I'm super excited but we won't be walking with kids. Now we have to find someone to watch kids while we are half-marathoning.

A 5K would totally be easy! ...if I were walking it.

So far my attempts to do Couch-to-5K have been less than successful, stalling due to shin splints and the unreasonable demand of the program that I manage to run five whole minutes at a time.