Congrats, Connie!

Those renderings are very cool, Gud. I'm still mad about the time I moved and bought a bunch of furniture and my boyfriend at the time was in interior design school, and he helped me NOT AT ALL. (In his defense, design is not the same as decorating, but still! He had resources and probably a better visual sense than me.)

We lost so much time at rehearsal because the stage was raked to a sharp degree, there was water and fake blood and a pool on the stage, and the actors kept falling down the stage into the pool! So much blood. So much water. SO many bruises and towels and laundry! I wish I had photos to show you this set.

That sounds incredible.

Back when I was in college, we did a production of a play in the courtyard of our old library. It had a ramp various actors were supposed to run up ... but it was a little too steep. The actors kept slipping. Much cursing ensued and no few bruises. For some reason, the ramp couldn't be flattened out. So someone had the bright idea of sprinkling laundry detergent on it (it was painted white, so that was one of the few things we could get that wouldn't show up).

Then it rained.

And we had suds running down the ramp. Killed some of the grass.

I don't remember how it was eventually solved, although I'm pretty sure it was. The play was performed with minimal incidents.

Prior to computers I cut out little pieces of furniture to scale on paper.

I do floor plan drawings on graph paper. Haven't figured out how to use these new-fangled computer programs yet, although I'd like to. I think I even own one or two, just haven't, you know, figured them out.

Yay raise! Boo tornados! Yay people being safe after the tornados!

Wow, Sophia!

I kiddingly said I'd have to call in sick today when we were standing in the drizzle during the fire drill yesterday, and now I feel terrible. Stupid karma. What did I ever do to it?

In better me news, the DVD of the movie of the first book of the Louise Penny series I'm currently obsessed with is waiting for me at the library.

That looks really cool, Gudanov!

I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to handle the whole healthcare debate again.

For whatever reason, though the dashboard says it was paid, my UI check for last week hasn't arrived yet.

I'm hoping the check for this week actually arrives in a timely fashion and trying to figure out what the hell to do about a missing check.

Meanwhile, I'm supposed to be scheduled for additional phone interviews for a job, but the HR person has yet to get back to me with the when and I can't schedule anything until those are scheduled because I told them I was open for the next two weeks.

I'm failing to Natter because I feel like all I'll be doing is whining and I do enough of that on Facebook.

Mothertrucker. I just realized that I'll have to file in at least 2 states for YEARS because of the way states tax equity.

I have an annoying author who keeps answering a question I didn't ask, while NOT answering the question I REALLY need the answer to. It would be like if I asked "What temperature do you set your thermostat at when you go to bed?" and the person responded "The temperature in the house is 68 degrees right now (1:30 p.m.), but in the summer can rise to as high as 77 degrees." DUDE. FRIENDO. How are you not comprehending the words I am asking?

I haven't been nattering because I'm in Copenhagen for work right now, and linear time has lost all meaning for me thanks to time zone nonsense and sleep deprivation.

On the plus side, I'm back in the land where not only is chocolate on bread is a perfectly normal snack, but my office provides the chocolate wafers and bread.