Highlights:
Seeing my parents.
Seeing various friends and spending one-on-one time with the most important ones.
Not being at work.
Sitting in a park by the ocean and having a completely quiet moment – no white noise, no nothing.
Presenting Cam’s rather boring present in a comical fashion, complete with maps and appendices.
Eating 3 Christmas dinners (one was leftovers, but [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Christmas Trip to Home City: Highlights and Lowlights
Posted in events, general life, musings, travels on December 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Two Items
Posted in flakey crap on December 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1) I enjoy re-reading emails I’ve sent. I find it calms me down, especially if the email contains a lot of information and/or my day is really busy. Am I insane? Just neurotic?
2) I stopped at the liquor store on my way home to pick up some more (cheap) wine to mull at our Christmas [...]
Correspondence
Posted in general life, musings on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I suck at corresponding these days. Of course, I’m comparing myself against my grad school, insane-procrastinator self of months gone by. The version of spare teeth that sat in front of a lap top all day most days, including many hours with access to the Internet. Although I managed to get my thesis done, I [...]
Two Monogrammed Robes and a Bottle of Wine
Posted in Uncategorized on December 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Friday this week was about 10,000 times better than last Friday. I was anticipating a repeat of last week, since my manager had been away all week again, so I was particularly thrilled at how the day played out.
First of all, I had the most hassle-free public transit commute to work that I’ve had to [...]