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...

My DH will be gone for 2 weeks in October, the person in my dept who handles most of the faculty requests will be going on Grand Jury duty for 4 weeks starting mid-October and another person will be teaching in Poland . . . Packing and moving should be fun!

Haha, this is pretty much my life at the moment. Still, yay new house and more room for the same money! I missed the link but it sounds adorable.

flea, great news about your house in Georgia! Also, how would you like to come put your unpacking/organizing skills to use in Nashville? Offer also open to msbelle and anyone else who loves this kind of thing. I can pay you in baby snuggles and tacos. There is a guest room, but first you will have to unpack and put away everything in it. And finish painting it.

You know, the problem with needing to do business on facebook is that there's not just business on facebook. Signed, what happened to the last hour? And also, is it time for lunch yet?

Matilda is six today! Huzzah! She was in good cheer and liked her braids and was excited with her new presents (unicorn shirt, unicorn fountain...)

And I have been to the DMV and renewed the registration on our car and put the sticker on so the CHP will stop pulling me over and got the DMV to write down the CHP ticket and it only took an hour.

Plus I got to talk to an older woman who was a master printer and had taught etching at San Francisco Art Institute. (Which she saw me reading about in one of my Beat books.)

Hippo Birdies, Matilda!

Alas, Megabus does not come to Nashville. I've never been to see the Parthenon! I wish that transporter had been invented, because I would so nip down and unpack a few boxes before I have to go pick the kids up from school.

I just started editing an article in which the author TYPED IN page numbers on every page. Not in a page header; as the first line of every page. Because computers are just BIG TYPEWRITERS. It's kind of cute, until you start editing and what the author had as the first line of every page is now halfway down the page. Then it's less cute, more stabby.

Happy birthday Matilda!

Still no plumber. Why is it if they give you a window of three hours, they always show up at the far end?

Angry Little Asian girl on TV!!!

ANGRY LITTLE ASIAN GIRL (MNet, Oct. 26) The actress and cartoonist Lela Lee’s weekly comic becomes an animated TV series. Margaret Cho, whose 1990s sitcom “All-American Girl” will be part of the show’s DNA, provides the voice of the angry little Asian girl’s mother.

But what is MNet?

I guess that means, I won't get the show!