I woke up too early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep, and I ended up going to the hardware store for a house thing at 7:00 and then installing the thing I bought before I went to work.

I blame both DST and sarameg.

I woke up at 1 am thinking there was an earthquake. We don't get a lot of earthquakes in central NC, but it has been known to happen. I fell back asleep pretty quickly, and I haven't seen anything in the news about it, so I guess I was just having a nightmare.

Yesterday I had to take care of a sick kid all day PLUS read through 30 or so articles to consider for publication. And then had a work-related meeting from 8 pm-11pm. Yesterday sucked. Oh AND my daughter failed her social studies test spectacularly too!

Today however is going quite well. I still have to assess a bunch of articles, but I have time to wander the internets first, plus a cat purring in my lap.

I missed Nilly!

It's snowing. Um.

Maria, oh, thank goodness.

I hope the mortgage stuff gets straightened out quickly, flea.

sarameg, wishing you quick and uncomplicated healing on the eye.

Jess, argh to the cable outage and the shoe debacle, and all good thoughts to your FiL.

I *love* DST! It's the sucky fall-back and dark at noon portion of the year that does me in. I just feel like hibernating, like a bear, till the sun comes back, am grumpy and difficult to motivate.

I would definitely die of sleeplessness in Alaska's 24 hour day, but I *love* twilights that last till 9PM.

WHY don't people use the Outlook Calendar that we have? WHY, WHY, WHY, do we have to go back and forth about when our 3 bosses can meet when one person could look at all the calendars and see who is available? And WHY WHY WHY at the end of the process can't the organizing secretary send a meeting request, rather than TYPING IT ALL INTO AN EMAIL, in OUTLOOK, so that I can now type it in to my boss's calendar???? And why does something that should take less than one minute seem to take forever?

Also, I have a major hate on for Macy's right now, because I just spent 10 minutes on the phone trying to figure out how to place a tax-empt order on a credit card that will be automatically shut down if tax is paid. The best they could come up with is that they THINK that once I enter the card information, their system will know I am tax exempt and not charge me tax. I am not going to try that, because it isn't even my card (for some reason instead of issuing everyone who makes purchases a card, my university just issues one to the department secretary and then they give it to me to use, which seems like not quite the way it was supposed to work)

Oh and Maria, I am so glad to hear it was benign!

WHY don't people use the Outlook Calendar that we have? WHY, WHY, WHY, do we have to go back and forth about when our 3 bosses can meet when one person could look at all the calendars and see who is available?

Oh yeah. People here sort of use their calendars, but there's always one, "Oh... Fridays aren't good for me." So mark it busy in your calendar!!

I *love* DST! It's the sucky fall-back and dark at noon portion of the year that does me in. I just feel like hibernating, like a bear, till the sun comes back, am grumpy and difficult to motivate.

Me too me too me too! Changing the clocks is a PITA, but I'd prefer DST all the time to the other way around.

Okay, this is not an efficient process. Don't email me and tell me I need to get the approval of Guy A and Guy B, and when I reply to you asking how, tell me "Reach out to them, and they will ask you the following questions:"

Dude, if you already know what they will ask me, tell me in the first email, so I can tell them that right away. Because I got so impatient waiting for your answer that I reached out to them without the answers to those questions. Now I have to follow up on my own email, and I look stupid. Document. Document and display. Please.

When I asked a friend of mine to play live music at my funeral, he really truly freaked out and thought I was considering suicide. I'm not sure how to tell him that a) I'm not the "cry for help" sort of person and b) he's not on the list of people I'd cry for help to. However, he would make great music at my funeral, and I don't consider it odd to discuss that. He, on the other hand--strangely for the spiritually evolved person he considers himself, really couldn't discuss it. I feel weirded out by his weirded outness.

Now that I think about it, I can sorta see why someone might think that the "music at my funeral" conversation is a subtle cry for help, but on the other hand, it strikes me as one of those standard conversations. I know I've had it elsewhere as well.