Sophia, Emory used to it "Lifelong Learning," but recently changed it to Continuing Education.

That's funny, because Lifelong Learning is the name of our department! Continuing Education makes nurses go nutty because it means something very specific to them that is not Lifelong Learning!

Sloane Rangers?

Is this entirely voluntary? Is at least some of this if a man is being paid more than a woman with the same skills, does he get laid off and then in this economy, take what work he can get which may not be in his profession?

Thank you! Sloane Rangers. I can't believe the shit I forget. Especially considering I was tangentially one for a hot second.

They'd be happy to work with a trained cormorant if it would get their computers working.

But would they insist on a male cormorant? (sorry, couldn't resist)

I work for an association for the design and construction industry and we're seeing more women - architects, engineers, contractors. On the whole a good thing; the only downside is that we now have lines in the women's room at our conferences.

Oh, work. It is weird how much my profile has risen thanks to the spelling bee. So many people talking to me in the hallway! I generally think it has confirmed for people who I am -- there are so many people here, and I know so many of them just a little bit, from monthly meetings with ~20 people in them. So they may have seen me at the event and then my name and department were in the daily newsletter, so I think it just puts it together for people. I don't know, it's interesting. I'm also organizing a high-profile meeting, with high-profile people. Overall, I feel like I'm turning a corner (after two years!) of people knowing who I am and what I do.

Of course, simultaneously, I am in the middle of semi-fucking up a project. Or, almost fucking up a project and handling some other messiness. Which is why I'm trying to focus on the other part, so I can get back to cleaning up and not fucking up! Bleh.

Aww, man, can't they trade Tebow to Siberia or something? I seriously need to stop hearing about this guy.

The timeline of technology is interesting. I was just working with a company that has decided to finally update from a version of our software that came out in 2002 to the version that came out last year. We're having to run their data through an intermediate version so it can be reformatted, because the 2002 format is alien to the current system. So I'm whinging about this company dragging itself into the 21st century, why are they so archaic, how could they possibly be functioning on such an ancient system--which is only ten years old and which was supported up till 3 years ago. And 2002 is the 21st century. Versions that I thought were just so wonderfully terrific when they first came out now seem woefully out of date. It made me go "huh."

Aww, man, can't they trade Tebow to Siberia or something? I seriously need to stop hearing about this guy.

This is me WRT the alarm over Adele announcing her 4 to 5-year break from music and her subsequent takeback. My initial reaction was "Yay! While she's setting fire to the rain, can she also set fire to all those CDs of hers that the radio stations are playing on continuous loops?"

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Ah, very nice. My favorite is the bottom right, with the knife. The finger movement is just...lovely.