It’s cool. That pic of me with Fr. Erwin isn’t terribly scary punk. Mostly the dyed orange and black hair I thought was punky. I have some more pretty punk pics of me but I have to find them and scan them. At one point I had a mohawk. I need to find that pic! 
I’m home from work, it was kinda quiet. The MMP has some of the best looking ladies on the Intarweb. 
I’m sorry to hear about the student, Haze
Dotty, :eek: Tell Mr. Dotty to listen to his doc!
mmmmmm, we believe you.
Welcome back, Olives! Glad to hear you’re doing better.
LiLi, that sucks. Eat lots of chocolate.
Did it happen in Hyde Park? That neighborhood is so nice and then suddenly it’s not…and then it’s nice again, and then you’re in a war zone. My sister lived there for a short time, but she was too afraid after awhile. She was physically frail by then and an easy mark. Luckily, nothing happened to her, but we were all relieved when she moved into a building in Streeterville with a doorman…
Those poor parents. 
Ok, everyone. QUIT POSTING. I’m trying to go to bed! 
rigs - Yeah, it was Hyde Park - 61st and Ellis. It’s a bit beyond what’s considered “safe” territory in Hyde Park, but it’s still more or less part of the university - they have a bunch of grad student housing along 61st - my friends used to live there! Then again, there really is no perfectly safe area in that neighborhood - Scottish Darling and I lived on what most people considered one of the safest blocks in Hyde Park, and I was mugged almost on her doorstep. I think the root of the problem lies in how isolated the university is from the rest of the community - one of the whitest, richest universities in the country, smack in the middle of an area full of both poverty and crime. The locals resent UChicago. A lot. The school is tightening security, of course, but it’s nothing more than a Band-Aid, I think. Ah well.
I need to stop reading about vampire orgies. It’s giving me weird dreams.
Believe it or not–HP is much better now than when I was a kid. My dad used to teach at UC and driving to his office was surreal in the 1970s. That McD’s on Garfield–all those stores–none of them existed. What was there were abandoned shells with graffiti, unconscious winos and heroin addicts (crack had yet to be invented). My sister lived at 53 and Drexel–new condos, very nice. But a block over–dicey.
There is so much that is great about Hyde Park, and things have improved, but not enough, I guess.
That would give me weird dreams, too. I am not fond of vampires–I’m not a fan of Anne Rice at all–but I did like a YA book I had to read for grad school: Blood and Chocolate. It’s about werewolves. Very cool.
I also need to go to bed. MORE housework in the morning. Why did I say I’d do Tgiving? Why?
Ay, qué lindos…
I got some pictures of me in my Flickr photostream…
Why so sad, Emo Boy?
Old lady hat
As Sally Field in NOT WITHOUT MY DAUGHTER
Properly accessorized
Tropical!
The rest of my ME pictures are here!
Hello everyone and welcome to our new posters!
Nope, still don’t have pictures, but I’ll keep looking. Additionally, I can’t find the scanner, so I won’t have any early pictures of me.
Dotty, I’ll keep you and your husband in my thoughts. I really hope he listens to his doc.
Li-Li, I’m sorry you have to deal with all of that. I really hope the situation is resolved sooner rather than later.
I had a sort of nice thing happen today. Well, it started out bad, but had a happy ending. I got home to find an “urgent” message on my phone from the power company. “Urgent” messages mean they’re going to cut your power.
I was kind of ticked off because I paid the damn bill at the beginning of the month. I called the automated pay portion of my power company and the recording said my last payment was posted in September! Now, I was really freaked out, because I knew I had paid the damn bill. The problem was that I paid it by phone and couldn’t find the damn confirmation number. So, like a numbskull, I paid the bill again, without checking in with a real person FIRST. However, since I was on notice to have my power cut, I was supposed to talk to a real person after making the payment.
I was finally transferred to a real person, and explained the problem. The lady on the other end, asked me to hang on so she could check her computer, and yup, sure enough, my payment was there. She then asked why I didn’t check before making ANOTHER payment, and I told her I did, the automated system said I hadn’t paid since September.
I asked if there was any way to back out the payment I had just made, but she told me it was a third party payment system ( I had paid by debit card) and anything after 5:01 pm was a done deal. I said, “Well, I guess that’s what I get for being a dummy and not checking with a live person first”. She asked me if the additional payment would be a hardship. I told her it would definitely make things a little tight this week. She then asked me to hang on because she wanted to talk to her lead.
So, I waited, and lo and behold she came back on the line and told me that her lead was able to back the payment out of the system. I told her they were both superstars and that I was very appreciative of the help.
So, although it started out badly, it ended nicely. Still, it sounds like their “systems” aren’t talking to each other and they should get them squared away. I just didn’t want my power cut-it’s pretty damn cold out. It’s only 36 degree here.
Ooh! That was a long, and probably boring story.
I’m glad this is only a three day work week. The stress factor is a little high in the office right now. There’s way too much to do and not nearly enough time. Everything needs to be done NOW! NOW! NOW!
It’s another long story, which I typed and then deleted. Suffice it to say, I’m pissed about a couple of things that were said to me in regards to yet another project from a particular chief in our hospital. While this newest project is one only I can do, all the other crap I’ve done for him since October 2006 is really wearing thin with me. Additionally, because of him, I can’t seem to get to other requests that have just as much validity as his, sometimes more. Arggh! I’m getting pissed all over again, so I’m going to quit now.
Sorry, I don’t mean to sound like I’m whining, I’m not. I’m frustrated, is all.
I hope tomorrow is a better day for me and for anyone else who’s a little blue, frustrated, or angry.
Morning all. Day off today - I took a personal day to recover from yesterday! Noor is at MIL’s house so I can catch up on the housework and have a rest. Hubby, despite being told to rest, is out running errands and generally gadding about. Sigh …
All of the pics are really nice! SCL, I have to say, from one straight woman to another, WOW! You look reallllly hawt!!! I am starting to think that sexy pic in the Imagine-ary Dopers thread ([post=9141164]here[/post]) is really just a slightly younger you!
Taters, I hate dealing with utilities companies, but fortunately here they rarely cut the power, whether you paid the bill and they screwed up or if you genuinely didn’t pay. It’s a courtesy only extended to Bahraini citizens, after some guy didn’t have the money to pay the bill, his wife had to go out to work at night and their young children (left at home alone) lit some candles for light and accidentally set the apartment on fire. The worst thing was that their mother had locked them in and nobody could get in to the apartment in time to rescue the kids, so they all perished (if I recall correctly, there were 4 children, aged about 2 to 10).
Okay, off to hang out some washing and maybe have a nap for a while.
**Haze **-- that’s terrible
OTOH, I forgot to mention that your pictures are, as always, stunning 
Taters, Dotty, **Rigs **and anybody I missed who’s stressed out… {{{{All of you}}}}
Olives, how you doin’? 
I swung through our Red Cross equivalent this morning to give blood – my father is going in for a hip replacement on Monday, and this (plus my sister’s donation) will cover him for the operation. It’s supposed to be a safe and standard operation, but of course it’s the rehab that’s going to be the sucker, later…
God damn…you are super cute!
After a momentary panic, I’m now mellow. I tried to get on line about half an hour ago, and got nothing but error messages. I tried all the tricks I know to reset things, then resorted to playing a game for a bit, then I tried again, and it worked fine. If I hadn’t taken the day off, I’d not have known that. Man, can a post be any more mundane than that??
Lots of big plans for today - we’ll see what I accomplish. I think I’ll hold the yard work for tomorrow because it’s supposed to get up to 70!! :eek: Then by Firday, the high won’t even hit 50. How sad is it that the weather is more exciting than my life? Oh the other hand, it makes my daily routine more interesting, at least for me, so there’s that.
Today’s official plans include glazing all the stuff I fired over the weekend and loading them back in the kiln to be fired overnight, plus some laundry, and some cleaning. I’ve also got to decide on the 3rd thing to bake. I will be doing pumpkin and peach streusal pies, and I was going to do custard, but I can’t find my MIL’s recipe, and there are so many on line, I don’t know which to try. I should just bake a cake.
But before I start anything, I’m thinking I may go get some breakfast-like substance - maybe a sammich thing at the Wawa, since it’s close. And a fountain soda, just for a treat. Yes, my life is dull - but you knew that. Anyway, I should probably don some semi-presentable clothing, since going to the Wawa in a fleece robe is beyond tacky, even for me.
Speaking of getting something to eat - thanks for the restaurant names, tarra. I’m always willing to experiment with variations on the crab cake theme. I had a really good one last week in Baltimore, and there’s a place really close to me that has a wonderful crab cake platter, even if it’s served on throw-away plates. Dang, that just makes me hungrier!!
Happy Tuesday, all! And I want more baby/little mumper pics!!
Caffeinated, vertical, and off to work.
Lessee, I’ve read all the comics and the advice columns, I’ve done my 2 online Sudokus, and I’m starving. Think it’s time to hop in the shower, don some semi-acceptable clothing, and find something for breakfast. Then get productive.
Yep, I’ll get right on that…
<sigh>
Sorry. He’ll be 40 years old, with wife and teenaged grandkids in tow, and I’ll still call him The Rugrat.
I’ve had a busy morning already and I’ve barely been at work any time. First thing today I had to empty my veggie stew out of the crockpot and wash the pot so that 'im indoors could start his curry going 'cos that’s tonight’s tea. Then I had to sort out the recycling boxes and get those out 'cos I’d forgotten it was recycling collections today. Then I had to put the normal rubbish bin out 'cos they collect that one as well today (but later than the recyclables).
Then I had an appointment at the eye horsepistol. What fun. I got to reception and the stroppy lady said I should have been there yesterday because she had me on the clinic list for Monday. To which I replied that if she wanted me to go on Monday, that’s what she should have written on my appointment card. And showed her said card with her own handwriting on it…with a 9am appointment for Tuesday 20th November. Yes, it is still Tuesday, right?
So I had to wait until 9.45am to see the doc because that was the earliest slot they’d got spare, and they had to get my notes back from the A&E records clerk who’d taken them away for filing after I failed to show up for an appointment on Monday that I’d never really had.
After that, I went to work and found out just how many ways the Professional Golf Association can mess up student lists and results.
Is it hometime yet?
BooFae, didn’t it at least give you a teensy bit of satisfaction to have the appointment card in your hand with today’s date on it?
I have solved my Thanksgiving dilemna. I’m going to have a Thanksgiving breakfast at my shop. I just told my grandparents as my grandpa was heading off to work and my grandma said as she walked away, ‘God bless her for doing that.’ So, I feel good as I know that I’ve done the right thing.
Cutie-Pie, you are so right! And definitely bless you for the TDay brekkie. Sounds like it will be fun.
Up, tea is brewing, weather is very rainy and dark.
Blood and Chocolate. I’ve heard of that, but haven’t read it. Who’s the author?
Taters, whew! I’m glad it got resolved.
That reminds me: we just got our first power bill since getting the washer/dryer, and it appears to cost us $10 every two months to run. Versus $50 a month at the laundromat. That makes me happy.
Time to make a nice mental list of all the things I should do today- laundry, clean the fridge, put away the damn laundry (tends to drag behind here), call and bother various offices, vacuum, call again, start organizing closets, make truffles, call again…
I’m waiting for whichever comes first: leaving for work, or the arrival of my invisible roommate. And drinking coffee, of course.