Kevin's Watch

Race not to the swift
Instead, to the observant

WTF!???

Nobody's going to beat me to 85, well maybe lurch and a few others...

Having a streak of good $ luck-tons of medical bills just reprocessed themselves and now I don't have to pay a thing, oil leak turned out to be an improperly replaced filter, not a cracked oil pan, 5 overdrafts fees, that I argued with the bank over, have disappeared (maybe 2 overridden at the most, but 5 never happens with banks) and just got reimbursed close to $20 for something I contributed to my PTA out of the blue...time to play the lottery!

aliantha wrote:

Lord Foul wrote:By the way, aliantha--I had given danlo the honor of making the third thread, but apparently he was too slow.

And DPJ wrote:Race not to the swift
Instead, to the observant
Conga rats, ali!

As I told Fist, think of the nice, steady WGD income I'm gonna earn from this thread, just sitting on my butt and letting people post for 500 pages. Might as well quit my job!

Yeah. I started the first How Do You Feel when you could make your own WGD, so I had millions and millions. It was an economic inflation similar to the old Weimar Republic, I tell you! But yes, the more recent overseers of this thread have turned my humble dream into a corporate empire.

I feel horrified at my uncharacteristic boldness. I volunteered to speak at one of the fortnightly seminars held by my university's school of history. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I drove home in a snowstorm, and got home in one piece. So did the car. Good end to a good day.

I'm feeling thoroughly embarrassed (yet oddly proud). Driving home after my Contemporary Novel final, I turn on NPR and catch an interview on Diane Rehm with Emma Donaghue, author of the novel Room that I had just answered several questions about. For the first time ever, I decided to call in a question of my own and got through. Unfortunately. I choked and barely managed to stammer out my question.

CovenantJr wrote:I feel horrified at my uncharacteristic boldness. I volunteered to speak at one of the fortnightly seminars held by my university's school of history. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ah, public speaking...

I feel good. Got my new (old) car yesterday, and today is the last day of work for the year. Really looking forward to my holidays.

--A

i'm trashed but I feeeeel gooood

Avatar wrote:

CovenantJr wrote:I feel horrified at my uncharacteristic boldness. I volunteered to speak at one of the fortnightly seminars held by my university's school of history. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ah, public speaking...

It'll only be in front of about fifteen people. I'm considering submitting a paper for our 'Medievalism Transformed' conference next summer though, and the audience there will be somewhat larger.

It's all kind of irrelevant now anyway, since I was doing these things to help with my PhD application and I'm now probably unable to do a PhD after the government voted yesterday to treble tuition fees.

We have an antique stove. Often you have to light the burner by hand. Tonight I flashburned my hand. It hurts.

Ow, Jenn!

Currently in negotiations with the kids over Yule. The original plan was for them to come up here, but it's starting to look like I'll have to drive down there again. Sigh.

CovenantJr wrote:

Avatar wrote:

CovenantJr wrote:I feel horrified at my uncharacteristic boldness. I volunteered to speak at one of the fortnightly seminars held by my university's school of history. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Ah, public speaking...

It'll only be in front of about fifteen people.

Argh! The seminar organiser was amenable to my suggestion! The horror. Come on, no one wants to hear me ramble about twelfth century Sicily, surely! The problem with volunteering for things is wanting to back out...

Come on, no one wants to hear me ramble about twelfth century Sicily,

Was that the time of the Norman Kingdom?

I'm tired and my hand hurts. Working today did not do my wound any favors. I bound it up good though to keep it protected and all day long people were asking me what happened so I made up elaborate lies about beating down shoplifters which the customers found highly amusing. Tomorrow I am off again and I am apparently working M-F to train the new copy center person.

I am afraid to drive to church this morning. Rain all day yesterday followed by a blizzard all last night and all day today = driving conditions that are less than ideal.
Courage is doing what you need to do even though you're afraid. Stupidity is courage that doesn't succeed. Pray that I'm courageous and not stupid.

Common sense says stay home. Besides, God's been meaning to stop over at your house for brunch!

I think God would understand if you stayed home today, Auleliel.

Take care of your hand, Jenn.

The weather here looked ok when I woke up at 6, but it's gone down hill since. It hasn't snowed like up in Minnesota, looks like about an inch and a half up to this point, but the wind is pretty fierce and it doesn't take much snow on a windy day to screw things up.

Well, I made it safely to church and home again. Driving wasn't too bad as long as I was careful about it.
Damelon, where are you in Illinois? I think we may be experiencing the same weather... I'm in SE WI. The windchill tomorrow is supposed to be nasty.

hue of bone wrote:

Come on, no one wants to hear me ramble about twelfth century Sicily,

Was that the time of the Norman Kingdom?

Indeed it was. You know it?

The Secretarial Dept. at work sponsored its second annual cookie exchange today. I made a batch over the weekend and brought them in today. Well, the turnout was kind of small. We had just 7 people (including me) bring in cookies to share. I'm betting there won't be a third annual cookie exchange next year....

Auleliel, I'm in NE Illinois about 5 miles south of the Wis border. Wasn't a lot of snow, but it was it was a nasty wind.