Archive for October, 2011
I’m heading out, Mechaieh can hold down Europe for the next little while
Grr. I think I am going to need to have That Conversation with a guy at work – this would be the one where I explain why telling a woman to smile when she’srunning around doing actual work is a sure way to piss a lot of us off. Dude. My face. Not your property. […]
Occupying my brain
The thing is, I don’t actually begrudge executives and CEOs big salaries and luxurious lives, in return for performance. (Notice I said “big”; “big” is not necessarily synonymous with “mind-bogglingly humongous”. Also, giving someone a massive bonus for inadequate bonus is just bad business.) I’ve met a few, and had enough exposure to others to […]
need advice: NYC
Since I have been horribly deficient in my research, what would you do with three days in New York, in October? The obvious tourist things are fine to suggest; Ted has never been there and though I grew up only about a hundred miles away, the last time I was in New York was 1983, […]
degrees of fiction
The ‘seven degrees of Kevin Bacon’ game gets even more surreal when it edges into fiction. Now: At the end of the Kindle version of Laurie R. King’s novella Beekeeping for Beginners, there is a transcription of a Twitter “interview” with Mary Russell (who is apparently flourishing despite being 111 years old now). She claims […]
travel breeds complexity
How convenient – Shweta Narayan has just solved a dilemma I didn’t even realize I had. Since they’re just out and I had all those long plane flights ahead, I was saving the new Heroes of Olympus book and the new Discworld book to read during my travel. But no reasonable person could expect me […]
replanning
The post about the Mississippi Personhood Amendment that’s been popping up in a lot of my friends’ blogs is freaking me out a little – it’s cleverly phrased and looks like a real post by the owner of the blog. Because you only have to push a button to repost it, I was worried that […]
o/O
I think this may be some sort of life milestone: I just saw the following status on Facebook: “Happy Birthday to my AWESOME grandson, (kid’s name)!! You’re \ l / (this many)today!!!!” …from someone I went through junior high and high school with. OK, I knew it was theoretically possibly (I once worked with someone […]
knitpics
Here’s the cowl I finished yesterday: And the skirt. It’s not completely done: I still need to sew in the rest of the buttons (the top two are functional); below that I sewed the skirt closed to prevent wardrobe malfunctions. It fits perfectly, but it also stretches; I will need to sew in elastic or […]
nearly done with being sick (I hope)
I did take off yesterday, but I’m back at work today. It went OK, mostly, except for a period int he morning where my head felt all spacy, probably as a reaction to the nose-spray decongestant my doctor recommended. (Otrivan – I think it’s similar to Afrin in the US.) This cold has progressed very […]
just like half of everybody else, it seems
Bleah. We are sick. I was hoping it wasn’t real, was just me feeling fevereish a few days before my period starts. That happens sometimes. However, given that the electronic thermometer and the old-fashioned mercury kind agree on 101.5, I don’t think it’s chimaerical. (That may not be the word I want here. If not, […]