Sparky, I missed the link. I need to reset my mental image of you and your environs. Congrats!

Work this morning is odd. Now that I have passed along the two big deliverables I'm kind of at odds and ends on what to do. I really expected e-mails telling me to start over or make big changes or something and so far...nada.

congras! sparky

I was going to say more, but I am still asleep

I went to bed so late last night--I was emailing with my boss at 1AM this morning, and you guys have seen my late night posting. That's not a good idea. I'm scared to check my sent mail.

I also revamped the incoming stream and parsing of my financial email, and I hope it works and I recorded all the passwords...

Finally, colleges and universities need to encourage faculty participation in pedagogical training so that they encourage success in various gateway courses - particularly writing and gateway science and math courses.

Could not agree more, le n. I think my school does a pretty decent job of offering summer classes to local students to help them acquire the writing skills they'll need in college, but the international students have been left far behind. The problem is even worse at the graduate level believe it or not. Grad students come in with the knowledge base needed for their coursework but many don't have the EL skills they need, especially the writing skills.

Yay a plumber is coming this morning! Except he might not be here until noon, so I have a morning to kill. If I'd known that, I could have gone running.

I suppose I could have taken a shower at the gym last night, but I was tired and didn't have any clean clothes with me.

Well, I'll do some paperwork and walk the dog...

I should go running. And I need a shower. But I have so many other things to do too. Is a conundrum.

I have to say--I switched electric toothbrush brands from Braun to Philips and it feels like the delta when I first switched to electric in the first place. My teeth feel uber clean, and I feel less guilty about not flossing (the Braun had a separate faux-floss head) although I know I shouldn't. Who looks at a toothbrush and thinks "Ooh, this could be a little more sonic?" But it works...

I had a notice last night that people would be coming through my apartment between ten and noon. No one yet! This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if landlords just post these notices to fuck with people and make them clean up. (Not that I cleaned. But I did load the dishwasher.)

So the guy did come, I still have no idea why, because he literally just looked around, but he did not say anything about the cat, which is a relief. My broker told me the cat was fine here, but then I got a resident handbook that said no pets, so I was a little apprehensive.

Man, we had the dumbest system issue yesterday (a user locked us out of admin access to one of the applications), and jeez....he's completely embarrassed, because that was a ridiculous thing to do, and he's not supposed to have admin access. We're in trouble because we let him have admin access (my boss inherited it, he didn't know. I inherited it--I didn't know. The people who made that decision are long gone, and I will get dinged for not knowing, but honestly--I've never logged into this piece of software. No one on our team has.

I'm working through the shaming my boss gave me by teasing the business user, but, wow, I swear stuff is happening to me that makes me look bad this month. I am such an innocent victim...

I need a victory, personal or professional (although professional would be best) to fix September. Man, if I hadn't had that excellent vacation, I don't even know...