There are bugs in the house, of the flying variety. I know because the cats are as high as they can get (their opinion on what that is changes) and staring at the ceiling.

Need to buy more pipe insulation tubes to seal up the ACs. I was definitely missing some when I put them in...

Anyone wanna get together in London June 14?

Don't tempt me like that.

Seriously.

Though I do get to see Cass soon

Go Taylor! That's great news, sarameg.

Though I do get to see Cass soon

You coming down south soon? I have a vague memory.

I need to go to bed, like an hour ago, but I have to admit I'm kinda wrecked right now and can't wind down. Partly late night and not eating dinner until 10, partly dealing with graduated seniors' exhuberence (fuck you spellcheck, I can't tonight,) part the LAST MONTH.

Oh well, I'm solo for market in the am, so it will be short and sweet, I can get my errand and cleaning done (extra special for the appraiser, wash off the porch floor) and OH BY THE WAY, Sunday is a going away party so I have to swim early and drive for an hour.

Yay, Taylor! I've never met her but I'm so very proud of her.

Yes, I get a Lee soon. We're about as organized as "hey, a plane is dropping you off, we'll start from there." So far.

OMG, that is amazing about Taylor. I'm so happy for her. You are clearly beside yourself, as you should be, because you've got it all going on for her between cheerleader and mentor and shoulder.

One of the guys at work wants me to talk to his tween daughter. She's got the chance to do a great-sounding long course in web-related development (it's long enough that the syllabus will probably change with the times). He figures a black woman in IT is what she needs to see right now, and it doesn't hurt that I have a cheap haircut.

Um, flattering? But meeting people's kids, even for good involves that whole line-y thing and some crossing and stuff.

Just finished my first week's homework for the coursera art class. There are two tracks--normal which means you pass the quizzes, and "with distinction" that means you did 2 out of the 6 art assignments on top of it. I don't think they should call it " with distinction". It should be "with pictures." Otherwise--value judgement (there's an art joke in there I'm too tired to make).

I don't know if a remote course with no one on one interaction is enough to help me over my big hurdles. But at least I'll get better vocab.

I really really really really want the funeral home heir to really hook her up with the Under Armor CEO. Because it'd get her so much more. She's an awesome kid, still learning how awesome she is. Guilco saw that, it just wasn't enough $$ for their reality, but it was a monumentous percentage (of Guilco's ridic private college costs.) But the March scholarship might do it, both monetarily and in the confidence. And I think I need to email the Under Armor CEO about her financial situation. Which is CRAZY, but...hey, I don't lose anything.

Do it, Sara.

Seriously, all the major sports are looking at concussion injuries right now. It's very ripe for research investment and breakthroughs.

OTOH, ita, meet the kid and see from there. Taylor's parents, well, I have to warn people how enthusiastic Charles is. And how unfiltered. Effusive! LOUD. So not me at all, but I'll hug him in a second and defend him to the end. He did a fucking amazing job raising an amazing daughter and he was a single parent (with a badly injured wife in long term care) from basically the time I met them. He thought I was a teacher (courtesy of the school stickers I never took off my car from the previous owner) or a journalist (because I was always reading mags and papers out on the balcony.) That lead him to approach me. When I was not that, but good at math and my mom was a teacher, she was handed to me when he wasn't home. And I adore her.

I get Mother's Day thanks/gifts from all of them every year. The first year I got it from T's mom? For being there when she couldn't? Ooof.