And I'm getting good feedback about today's talk, so that's nice

That's great, Burrell!

Went out with some of my old department after work. That was fun. Bittersweet, but fun.

That sounds very daunting, Burrell, but it also sounds like you crushed it.

On to the Deluxe Birthday Celebration!

Yay Burrell!

I don't have an email doppelganger, but I think there is a film or venue production assistant person also named "Nadine"- I have gotten emails for movies I have kickstarted with action items. I think my email is just in the leaders gmail because of the kickstarter and they don't know many nadines. I am confused every time, because the things she is asked to do aren't outside the realm of things I do, but I am never in the right city. I think she worked on Veronica Mars and definitely on the documentary about Mildred and Richard Loving.

I think of her as if she were the person I would have been if I had actually moved to the big city after college and taken up my dreams, instead of being seduced by health insurance.

One guy ate at Outback every night in Las Vegas.

That is really wrong. I would disallow this expense, for inappropriateness.

On the plus side: 1) it's now over and 2) I think it went well

Excellent! Good luck.

Baltimore marathon tomorrow. I have my tambourine.

The onlooker support was the very best part of the marathons I did. Seriously. Also, yay for finding a roofer!

The latest emails I get are from Verizon. I told them repeatedly that they have the wrong email address and I am not their customer. Now I just delete them. I even texted the phone number listed to tell the person the email address was wrong.

Verizon person's name is Lyric, as opposed to the Lisa that I get soccer game and kid related emails for.

Timelies all!

I am wearing Star Wars band aids on the back of my heels because my new shoes rub the something awful.

There's someone with my name but middle initial B whose email I've been getting for over a decade. It started when she was in college and now she's married with a kid. I've watched her life progress through misdirected emails. For a long time I politely wrote back, telling them they had the wrong email. Then one woman told me it obviously wasn't the wrong email because that's what she'd been given. I told her to tell Elizabeth that she was giving out the wrong email. Since then I just delete them. Fuck it, she's an adult now. This has been happening for years, she should've learned to be specific about her email address. "Don't forget to include the "b"! There's a grumpy woman in VA who doesn't want any more of my emails!"

There's a graphic novel style book at the book sale called Monkey vs Robot and I think it might be the most Buffista named book ever.

I have that book! It's by cartoonist James Kolchaka, and it's based on his song of the same name.

This is awesome: [link]