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March 29, 2008
Photos
And finally photos of the tornado damage in Atlanta
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March 23, 2008
Still snowing
Hard to get in the Easter spirit with a blizzard going on outside.
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March 22, 2008
Butterscotch Pudding
Butterscotch pudding is one of the great simple pleasures of life. The difficulty with butterscotch pudding (and with all good pudding) is that it is not instant. Meaning, it is necessary to cook it which requires that you to stir constantly or it will burn. Thus it takes a lot more patience than I normally have. Yesterday, though I decided it was worth it, so I set out to make some. On the box though I had a hard time finding the stove-top directions because the microwave directions were so prominent. So I decided to try the mircowave method. Well it wasn't as good as the stove top method, but pretty good. I just need to stir more frequently.
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Snow Globe
I cannot believe that this is Easter weekend. It kind of sucks because for the first time that I can remember I got Good Friday off and I had to spend it working on my thesis. In fact that is what I will be doing all weekend. In some ways it is annoying, but in other ways it calms me down because I feel like I am putting in time towards it, and that it might actually come to a conclusion before I turn 30.
Brian and friends are off to New Orleans for a bachelor party, and as I sit here trying to find solutions to made up airline operations problems, I am jealous.
Also, it has begun to snow here again. In fact it started snowing Thursday night and hasn't stopped since. It contributes to the overall snow-globe effect that is going on outside my window. I've promised myself that if I finish solving the current scenario in time I'll take a walk out in the new snow in the park with my snow-boots.
Earlier this week I was in Raleigh NC interviewing for yet another job. I like this one best. I really hope that 1) they offer it to me and 2) that Brian comes up with something to keep him gainfully employed should we move there. There is lots of scuttle butt going around about my employment prospects down in ATL, so if you want to know please call.
Other than that Wedding plans are coming along well. We are trying to track down RSVPs from the 25 or so remaining invitees. Mostly these are my highschool friends, people like Ir who are still trying to figure out how to be two places at once and random relatives.
Becca and Sarah christened the honey-fund. Which is good because I took some flack for it, so I'm glad it got some use. Anyone out there who doesn't want to buy us china or crystal (or any of the other thousand things on our registries), please have fun with the honey-fund.
My father tells me that my mother is like a kid in a candy store, with all the presents arriving at my parent's house. He believes that she's going to keep inviting people she knows cannot come so that the presents can keep arriving.
And the one other thing going on right now is that my car is in the shop. The check engine light came on the other day, and it had been running rough, (esp. at idle) and so it was time to take it in. Apparently the rough running is caused by corroded baffling in the muffler assembly, so I'll need a new one of those. The strange thing was that he said my car had a CA emissions system on it. News to me. My dad and I now understand how it had so many miles on it when he bought it at 1 year old. It must have been driven across the country and then probably traded in for something nicer. Probably a navy guy. Who knew my little Mazda was a Californian?
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March 14, 2008
Rain
Yesterday I heard a noise while in my apartment. It was at once both strange and familiar. I knew it at once, but almost didn't believe. It was the patter of rain. A sound I haven't heard since January (and on a different continent). Snow, falls silently.
This weekend I'm off to ATL one last time before the wedding. Then it is off for another and hopefully final interview. Send good vibes my way.
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March 10, 2008
No more sun
I hate waking up in the dark. Thus the first few weeks of daylight savings times are horrible. You come through winter, the days are finally getting longer, the sun is finally starting to rise around the time you need to rise, and then boom DST, bye bye sunshine.
My body was in such a state of revolt this morning that I completely ignored my alarm. Not that I didn't hear it, react to it, turn it off, but it became completely incorporated into my dreams and it took me 20 minutes to really figure out that it went off, and further that that meant that I had to do something.
I cannot wait until summer and longer daylight hours.
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March 07, 2008
Crazy Week
It has been a crazy week. It got so bad by Thursday I had almost decided to stop reading my email in the morning, as it only sent me into a panic.
So let's see what all went on. Mostly little things. I had to do my every-other-year ritual of ordering a second year of contact lenses just before my contact lens prescription expires. It really bothers me that my contact lens prescription expires after one year, but my glasses prescription lasts for two years. Greed, that's all there is to it. I first called wally-world vision center where I bought my contacts last year. After the standard "do you know your prescription will expire at the end of the week" questions I managed to blow the whole process by asking if they could ship them to me in MN. No good. Then they told me the couldn't order them until I could come in and actually present my credit card. So I asked if they could read off my Rx or transfer it to the online ordering system. No dice. So then I had to call the College optical and go through the same questions. At least I finally got my Rx. Then I went to wally-world .com and ordered the lenses. It shouldn't be this difficult.
Then as our wedding invitations went out last week, we got the obligatory pissed off relative. Luckily it was on Brian's side. Apparently there is one aunt who's 30-something daughter still lives at home. Out of the preference from some quarters we only invited the aunt. She was pissed. Sigh. I panicked for a few minutes thinking we had messed up. Nope, our decision just didn't sit well with her.
Then there was the series of emails from GT asking about my decision. I felt like asking about their decision on Brian, but of course the questions never came from people who could answer those questions.
Work is crazy and one of my major projects is incredibly frustrating.
Oh and then there was the realization that I forgot to tell the church that we'd pushed the start time for the wedding back by 15 minutes.
All in all a lot of fire-fighting and diplomatic email writing. I wish that I could just veg out all weekend, but I've got thesis stuff to do and several things to do for a prof at GT. Sigh. Luckily the pizza has been ordered and is coming.
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