Up, caffeinated, off to work.
Thanks, Rebo! 
Congrats on the last day, Nava.
puts fingers in ears Lalalalalala… Not hearing anything about General Ledgers. Nope. Not a thing. Lalalalalalalalala.
Nava, I’m seething with jealousy. Congrats on leaving it all behind.
{{{{{{{{Mumpers}}}}}}}}
Moonie, make with the pics already. Hey, it’s not like I’m photogenic either, and yet I feel the need to inflict a photo on the world every damn week. 
Yay! Today is my Firday - I’m off to Ostend tomorrow for a long weekend. Down to London in the morning, meet up with friends to drink champagne, get on the Eurostar with yummy picnic, get off in Brussels, get on another train to Ostend, arrive at hotel, meet up with friends arriving from Hungary…go out and drink copious amounts of beer and apple gin. Party the weekend away, arrive home on Monday hungover and fat. Woohoo!
Cuz Mahna asked so nicely…
Self-Portrait
The Outfit I Usually Wear Around Campus
Close-Up of the Above
Showing off my Tail
bleeping camera makes me look like a damned zombie. I swear to god I’m much more cheery and animated in meatspace, and yes, I DO actually smile, I’m just terrible at it when there are cameras involved. I don’t know why. grumbles incoherently
Today is judgment day. SO much work to do. I literally have HW in ALL 5 CHUCKLEFUCKING CLASSES. Can it be 2020 please? I wanna skip straight to the steady-job-and-a-house-of-my-own stage of life. Ah well, at least I get my Calc III exam back today… I know I crushed it. Almost positive I got an A. That’ll be some welcome good news.
bounds after SO, tail streaming out behind him
Hello Sexy! I don’t suppose you live in California?
We had an unexpected adventure last night. One of the gerbil sisters got out. We’re not sure how, but Entropy somehow got out the door in the middle of the cover (of their 10-gallon tank), down the glass side, off the ~3’ tall book case and on to the floor. Little troublemaker. Enthalpy, still in the cage, was upset enough that she didn’t destroy the toilet paper tube I’d put in for her in the morning. That’s not a good sign since she can take one down in under 2 minutes.
After some searching, we decided we’d be better off sitting quietly and waiting for Entropy to come out, or at least let us know where she’d gotten to. Or for the cat, who scattered when we started a somewhat noisy search, to come back and to go to where she’d last seen the gerbil. But the cat got distracted by all the stuff we’d pulled out in our search; rearrangement of her world makes her nervous and she has to do a thorough investigation before going back to whatever she’d been doing previously. So she wasn’t much help.
But after a minute or so of sitting quietly, KT heard Entropy scratching behind the tall, skinny bookcase (not the short, squat one that their cage is on). So he flushed her out and put her back. Enthalpy had to chase her around for a bit with a look on her face that seemed to say “Where *were *you? You know you shouldn’t go running off like that. It’s dangerous out there! Are you ok? What *did *you do?” And then they settled back down to normal.
We’re still suffering some ego damage from realizing that we can be outsmarted by something with a smaller-than-pea-sized brain.
Aw, you’re cute.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I want that too. I thought I’d be there now. I got the house of my own but…let’s just say there’s a reason one of my roommates is called Complicated and I’m planning a move six hours away.
Today’s serenity prayer: Lord, please help me to not shoot a freshman. Grant me the strength to let them live to learn wisdom before I beat it into them.
It’s Major Freshman Comp Research Paper time, can you tell? I swear before God and Sonny Jesus, if I EVER teach Freshman Comp again I will be such a total hardass about their papers from Idea One. As I just said to Archivin’ Boss, my rule will be “Step 1: Have an idea. Step 2: Make sure it’s a good idea. Step 3: Are you really sure that’s a good idea?”
What prompted that rant? Archivin’ Boss shared a story about a frosh she was helping yesterday:
AB: What are you interested in?
F: The Civil War.
AB: What in particular?
F: The South.
:smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack::smack:
That kind of person isn’t any more fun to deal with when you’re a student either.
See, this is why I shouldn’t post when I first get up. You said what college. Maryland, about as far away as you can get. Why are none of the cute guys I meet ever in California? (Well, except Antinor01, but he’s taken. And gay.)
See? You’re just too gosh-darned cute for words. I rest my case.
ruffles Moonie’s hair
Also, try to enjoy your somewhat irresponsible student years, mister. Getting to the settled-down-own-a-home-steady-job stage of life just means you’ve traded one type of insanity for another (the grown-up version includes super-fun activities like discovering just how many things in your home can break at the worst possible time, finding tradespeople who won’t rip you off, dealing with a boss who’s a total prat, and sobbing every time you look at your company’s share price because that’s what half your retirement fund consists of).
Glad Entropy’s little adventure had a happy ending, taxi. Cat + gerbil on the loose isn’t a good thing.
Spaz, that’s a future corporate CEO if I’ve ever seen one. I don’t know whether I should laugh or cry.
We are too, but we weren’t too worried about the cat. Despite her recently temporarily catching a mouse (before losing it), she really isn’t a very good hunter. It’s a darned good thing her food comes from a bag 'cause otherwise she wouldn’t make it. Now, given enough time with a gerbil on the loose, yeah, she’d probably be able to make an attempt at it. But I’d be more worried about the gerbil dying of hunger/thirst before the cat would successfully catch it.
She can catch (but generally not kill) grasshoppers like a pro though!
ugh. I mean, really.
Hey, knitters, I think I’m going to go to WEBS in April! I’m going home with a side trip to Boston (from the Albany, NY area) so I’ll be going right by. And I’m probably going to be having dinner with a friend who’s in Amherst. So a stop in Northampton is practically right on the way. I can’t not go. 
Are you ok soapy?
Apparently certain people I thought were friends at work are Not To Be Trusted.
Sucks. Important lesson, hard learned.
The Swiss Roll that didn’t get taken out of its box, from among the pile of immoral food I brought to work yesterday as part of saying my goodbyes, happens to be chocolate.
Pushes a slice of chocolate Swiss Roll into the CD tray for Soapy
I think it’s kind’a fitting that it was Entropy who made a run for it. You’ve got nerdy gerbils!
Have I been here this week?
I never remember. Crim, sorry to see you go. I’m not a grass-is-greener there kind of person, and can’t be too excited about things changing til I see what effect the change. So y’all are stuck with me here at least for the medium short-long term.
I am very blah lately.* Not excited, not down, just kind of washing around in the waves. Maybe I’m just too f-ing tired of winter, who knows?
Good thoughts on your adventures Nava!
And other stuff to you other folks.
Gee-zus it’s noisy in this place, don’t these people have kids to start driving home or something? Shoo now, the lot of you, off into your yellow buses and out of my hair!!!
*Oh, crabby and short-tempered apparently too.
Blaaaaaargh. Will this day ever end? I just wanna be anywhere but work right now.
Random anecdote, just 'cause - on my lunch, I went to the neighbourhood Goodwill store to pick up some small glass jars to organize sewing supplies (buttons and such). Apparently their pricer has an overblown concept of value, because all the jars were priced at $1.99 and $2.99… including some that included stickers indicating they’d originally been purchased at the dollar store (they also had a stack of plastic cake carriers that were priced at $3.99 that were also dollar store overstock).
I do believe my wallet and I will be going to said dollar store tomorrow, because I refuse to be ripped off, even if it’s in the name of charity.
Soapy, that’s really unfortunate. I suggest putting rotten fish in their offices as retribution, since a slap with a wet trout isn’t nearly enough for this kind of transgression.
{{{Hugs}}}
Why yes, yes we do.
The week from hell continues.
This is my day.
I have to make my way to the barn again to check my critters. My goats are due to give birth any day…
I will try to catch up later.
So, FarmerBabe, I guess you won’t be using the grill today, huh?
I’m just biding my time here in fleamarketland. Not much going on.
spaz, glad to know somebody else is still reading the Dune books.
chickie, it’s the likes of that that make me drop to my knees and kiss the Flawduh ground.
moonie, can I pinch your cute lil cheek?
nava, I am glaring at you in envy. 
soapy, I’m sorry about your co-workers. I’m seeing more and more of that mentality in the workplace as the economy gets worse. Bastiges!
For me it’s will this week/month/year never end???
Tupug