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| Yay Lori!!!! That's so fab! I'm so jealous. Except for the calculus part. That is *all* you. Calculus made me cry on a regular basis. *shudder* Never, never again.
But yay for no more job! Where are you looking to intern? -Linz |
| Lucky girl:)
Have fun. I would love to have a summer off to write and research. I hope you find a really interesting internship too:) ~ruthie~ |
| Today was my last day of work! Yay!
Now I have about three weeks to salvage my calculus grade, and then spend the summer writing (and maybe with an internship, but haven't even gone to check that out yet). law |
| Father's Day is coming up, John. Lucy must already be making plans..... |
| Maybe she'd courting the dog next door, bringing it prezzies. |
| It's not just cats. For Father's Day two years ago, Lucy the Wabbit Swayer brought a large—at least five pounds—dead rabbit to the back door and left it there. (Then she puked up the guts on the carpet, but that's another story.)
I fear that Lucy may have some cat in her ancestry somewhere. When she runs down rabbits and squirrels (so far, 19 rabbits and 5 squirrels), she plays with them by tossing them in the air, usually breaking their cute little necks. And when she's tired of them, she tosses them extra high… and they end up in the nasty neighbor's yard where her one-eyed pit bull (actually a fairly nice dog) will rip it to shreds. |
| Pretty cat! PBS had a hilarious show about show cats and their people. I think they're rerunning it early next week. I just might watch it again.
One more physics test down. I feel pretty good about this one--I seem to have an uncanny knack for writing down just the right things on my cheat sheet. I'd probably spent about half an hour on one problem, at least, when I checked the sheet again. "Adjust lambda for speed in material." That's all I needed. A bit more twiddling, and I had it. :-) law |
| Neibulung are germanic dwarves. Among other things, they made the "Ring of the Neibulungs".
However, Nebelung Cats are just another breed. (you know I just had to do that first paragraph) |
| Er...what's a nebelung? |
| http://www.cafepress.com/worldscats
Just for fun. You'll be amused. If you really want cat stuff, you gotta go to my dog shop, unfortunately. Sigh. http://www.cafepress.com/worldsdogs |
| Lori - check your email please? |
| Hairball hacking |
| Wait? Aren't we forgetting a seminar on how to dispose of uneaten mouse parts with the maximum potential of being stepped on by bare-footed humans?
Justin |
| Ah, but WHERE? Across door-sills is a good place...across common human-paths in the house...I tell you, there's an ART! |
| Don't forget Furball Placement 101.
But the most important part of Be A Cat Day is laying around and SLEEPING. |
| And there will be music by Yowl and Scratch |
| Don't forget the popular Butt-Cleaning competition. Or the Stretching and Yawning Arts workshop. I think they're going to try to have a Choosing Which Garment to Shed Upon class, too. |
| Sunday April 30, 2006 is the first International Be A Cat Day.
There will be parades - if we can herd 'em. Cat-nip pie booths along the route. Cat-nap-off contests around the clock. |
| Heck, yes! Nag away!
I've been eyeing my furballs, all lounged about on different pieces of furniture, snoozing. Bums. I want somebody to establish a Be A Cat Day. |
| Does that mean we can't nag you about the novel?:( |
| Well, now, hold on--there's still a month of school left. And more school down the pike.
But no future job will detract that much from my life. I Have Spoken. |
| Although *I* think if you sit your butt down in the chair every day and write - you're employed! Name it and claim it, honey! |
| Cool Lori...welcome to the ranks of the "not-really-employed-but-I-write-so-does-that-count?"
B |
| Now you'll be able to devote all that time to finishing the novel:) Keep us updated. |
| Congratulations. |
| Yay!!! Yay Lori!!! You go, girl. As in, um, leave. Phabuloush!
-Linz |
| I will cheer as soon as I get over this crippling spasm of jealousy...
Nah, I'm not jealous - you go, girl!! Yay you! |
| Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It looks like next week is my last week of work!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Heck, I thought that was you, Bob. |
| Now THAT's the bossa nova. |
| the possumbilities are endless |
| That's what imaginations are for.
:-) |
| Awe, but you coulda added more realism to a description of an alien corpse.... :) |
| I must admit that I am ideologically opposed to the Disney school of conservation (only the cute and fuzzy shall be protected) but I didn't go look at the dead possum in the driveway. It was not a sight I needed to see. |
| "Pavement Green is PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!" |
| No, they're not friendly, David, which could possibly speak to their intelligence, not making friends with people - we aren't too easy on the other species of this planet. But they're not mean and they're not nasty. They're just animals doing their best to fill their ecological niche, which is a damn site more than Homo sapiens is doing. We're trying *our* damndest to turn the whole planet into either concrete or human flesh. |
| My favorite possum likes grapes. My second favorite possum just died, but I know he didn't die in Lori's driveway.
Cannibals and Kings is probably a better book, Jay Arr. |
| possums are mean, nasty, and not friendly. End of story. :D |
| On the subject of stew, I've just been reading *Cannibals and Evil Cult Killers.* No author's name is given anywhere. After reading it, I think that was a wise decision on the part of the author(s). It's very poorly written. It's a Time-Warner book and, although it only came out recently, it was on the "cheap" table at Borders. That should have tipped me off.
--Jay Arr |
| Animal control came and got it before it could be turned into stew.
Well, darn. :-) |
| Poor possums. I saw a young one dead on the highway this morning. I like possums. They're humble, and sweet (ifn you don't get too close.) |
| You can usually find recipes for possum in the cookbooks from teh 50s. Also anything in aspic. It's a little disturbing.
Possum in aspic, anyone? Eeeewwwww. -Linz |
| Oh, no. I'm obnoxious. :-)
Our neighbor just dropped by to inform us that we have a dead possum on our driveway. Yum! Possum stew, anyone? |
| You aren't obnoxious at all. I'm impressed with all the stuff you're studying. Anything to do with math is nigh impossible for me. So congrats on getting your homework done! |
| That's why we love you!
Seriously, good for you. I bow to your fabulous intellect. -Linz (ok, I don't do serious that well...) |
| Yeah, I know. I'm pretty obnoxious, aren't I? |
| Well, egoboo to you. |
| I would like to post this in Good News for the Ego Shelf but it doesn't really fit....
Just finished about seven hours worth of homework for the relativity chapter. Some hard grind, some inspired guesswork, some research on the web, some stuff I never did figure out but just wussed out and checked the answer. This stuff is nasty hard. law |
| Hi, Larval Derfle!
The roots done been rootered, MG, thank you kindly. No clean out--they had to go in through the roof. Quite the operation, as Gary described it. How many roots can a rotor route when the roto-rooter roots? Or something like that..... I read an entire issue of F&SF.; You know how long it's been since I read an entire issue of F&SF;? |
| how is your plumbing doing?
are you in a house or apt? Do you have septic or sewer? if your toilet is backing up into your tub, that is a main line clog. Do you have children who would drop toys in the "toy"let? Could be roots too. (Don't blame Alex Haley) Do you have a 4" clean out outside of your bathroom? If so, unscrew it, flush again and see if nasty stuff come out of it. That is your main line. Some chemicals can eat ABS plastic that sewage pipes are made of. Beware of "goo". Sincerely, Excited by Excrement :) |
| Hi!
Darvel Larkel |
| HI!
Ferd Berfel (Berfle?) |
| Hey, love. You sparkle, I'll farkle. |
| HI!
-Sparkle Farkle |
| EWWW@ homework. The good thing about going to art class is that you can leave your work at school and come back the next day ^.^ . |
| I *almost* made it. I was up doing homework. But I put off adjusting to daylight savings time for too long and ended up crashing with minutes to go. |
| I made it, but livejournal insisted on putting 00 seconds. |
| I couldnt do it...passed out about midnight...my recent lack-of-good-sleep has taken its toll...
I'll probably just post at 1:02:03 04/05/06 I missed the 01...but conventionally 1 PM is "1" too... B |
| So did you succeed? I didn't even succeed in figuring out *which* night it was, I thought it was *tonight*...
Just take me by the hand and lead me to where I need to be, that's what works with me....drool... So - whoever stayed up to live in that moment: How was it? |
| OMG..thats soooo cool...now I wanna stay up too...and I wanna post in my Livejournal at exactly that time...
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| Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..............
(glub, glub, glub) I have this persistant but not very sensible notion to stay up tonight until shortly after 1 am, when it will be: 01:02:03 04/05/06. |
| Maybe they're alien seeds from a ship that's starting the first invasion and they caused the rain to come. Or you could always write about a ship's plumbing getting clogged with alien plants. Woo hoo... |
| I'd be happy to have the freaking rain go away too.
Rooting for roots sounds too much like fun to pay someone to do it for you, but of course it isn't. I think we should all spend Thursday outside. It's supposed to be sunny Thursday. Please. |
| Go, go, writer Lori! |
| Hah. I could lie and say I hate you, too, Rebekah.
:-) Moi bored stiff at work. |
| I generally enjoy rain, but I'm getting heartily sick of it too. Lucky that I'm going to Seattle next week to see sunshine. ;) |
| They rootered and found roots? How punny is that?
From what I know of roots in plumbing, which is to say not much, the little thing they send into the pipes cuts the roots off with its little blades and then, er, I don't know what happens after that. You could ask the roto guys. You could email This Old House and ask them. Sometimes it does seem as though the home improvment projects are more effort than they're worth, doesn't it? -Linz |
| I would say I hate you but that would be a lie. :-)
Okay. We've been rootered. Apparently they pulled out a bunch of roots, but Gary didn't say anything about them saying, "Omigod, your pipes are full of holes!" so I don't know what to think. I don't know if there's any way that the rampant sewer work up the street could have resulted in roots clogging our pipes, but this certainly seems to have happened rather suddenly. Who knows. I sometimes wonder if we should sell the dump to some sucker who has time and money to spend on it and buy ourselves a new place in a cheaper part of the world.... law law |
| It's sunny here in Seattle today. How's that for irony? And other laundry items.
Of course, the weather could change any time. That's what being in the PNW means. -Linz PS our crabapple is blooming - bright pink flowers just starting to show. It's so cute! |
| Like I said, I'm getting soooo FREEEEKING tired of the rain--
Well, plumbing was *not* okay. Capitulated and called Roto-Rooter. We'll see what happens next. But I kinda wonder if it has something to do with the FREEEEEKING RAIN. law |
| Yeah Scene! Yeah, she's near here. |
| Go Lori! |
| That's great! |
| Yay! I wrote a scene! |
| Geeze louise, is she lives around here she must be flooded out by now. I am so freeking tired of this rain.
Plumbing is somewhat better. Vigorous plunging and application of plumbing goop seem to have helped. I think we'll have to be a bit more diligent about our preventative maintenance. I'm using it as an excuse for a mental health day, though. Go me! |
| I've got a friend without plumbing problems. But the back wall of her house is set into a hill. It's leaking. So when it isn't plumbing, it's water anyway. |
| Plumbing...
The horror. The horror... |
| I live in fear of plumbing problems. I hope yours are easily fixed.
-Linz |
| Hope the plumbing's better! |
| Ah, old houses....
Today as we were doing laundry, as the washing machine drained the toilet and tub backed up. Frank let us take a shower at his place. Frank is a prince among men. The tub finally drained and Gary poured some gunk down it--we'll see what's what in the morning. Just a few words on the story. I need to do more on it than an hour or so every Sunday night. Next week is Spring Break--we'll see what happens then. If I was good I'd get my lab reports done. Clear the decks, as it were. law |
| Well said, MG. Slaps upside the haid like that are precisely what I need.
law |
| That gives me goosebumps - the bad kind. |
| In order put things in perspective and truly understand what is important, try this:
Quit school & writing. Take on another job to earn MORE $. See if you are happier. |
| Awww, Lori...now you know you're probably irreplaceable!
But I'm in agrement, too...you really need to follow your happiness right now, especially if Gary is fine with the one-paycheck lifestyle right now. B |
| Silly Lori, you're irreplaceable, so the answer is "never." :D |
| So the next question is how long will it take my manager to find someone to replace me? |
| Hey, folks, thanks. You guys da bomb. :-)
It shouldn't be a big deal, but it makes me *really, really* nervous not to have my own paycheck. I've just decided that next job (when and if) has to have more to do with the direction I want my life to go in, as opposed to being easy but really boring money. The money's okay, but the hours spent here are *gone.* Besides, Gary's tired of me being really stressed out. I don't generally take it out on him, but I'm still not that fun to be around. law |
| Lucky you! Gary's tha bomb! Go for it! Yay Lori! |
| I know it's a cliche, but follow your instincts. If your gut is telling you now is the time to quit, then now is the time to quit. |
| I think it'll be so much better for you right now to follow what you really want to do - go to school and write. If Gary's doing ok, and the two of you don't need your input to keep things together, then I say go for it. Just think how much nicer it is not to have to get up to "Oh, crap, I have to go do *that* some more."
-Linz |
| Lori, it's tough not earning your own paycheck, but if Gary's cool with covering things then go with happy over money right now. |
| Life is wonkers, but I'm going to do my bit to make it wonkers in a better way--for me, at least.
I'm going to quit my job again. More time to study (and try to salvage my grade in math) and maybe some time to actually write--so the story I've been working on in two-hour chunks every other Sunday (maybe) might get done! It makes me nervous as heck not to have my own paycheck. Just help me, guys--remind me of what's important. Is it important to receive notice of that direct deposit every week but be miserable earning it, or is it more important to figure out how to be happy and maybe earn a living that way? law Gary says he'll cover stuff. |
| Hey, Bob, thanks!
Did you see the head about Klein bottle games? Exactly how *would* you play spin the Klein bottle? |
| Math 'zines won't pay of course, but...
http://mathforum.org/electronic.newsletter/ |
| Not yet--
I was about to say my schedule is insane this semester, but I should do my looking while I'm bored senseless at work, no? law |
| Re: your story: have you checked out whether there are any newsletters or zines just for math-heads? Industry mags, like? Maybe they like math-related funsies. |
| Hey, Rebekah. Bill and Cindi are the folks I was supposed to go skiing with. :-(
I certainly *hope* you make it back in your Prius-- Roach, I'd be willing to give it a try. I just need the time to try to find one.... |
| Robert, I'm going to Tahoe this weekend! Think I'll be trapped? Bill Pierce and Cindi will also be up there. We're going to *YAY* pick up our new Prius! (Which, through a long series of circumstances, we're buying at a dealer in Tahoe.) |
| Lori, have you thought about trying some math journal with the story? If it's a short, short and punny there might be someplace that would use it for filler.
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| Robert, good point. On the other hand...trapped in Tahoe...
Waah!!!!!!!!!! Melissa, soon as I get home. At least it's short. |