You Passed 8th Grade Math

Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct!

Thanks Memer!

Hey! I can DO this!

Lots of SNOW! YAY!

Here’s the view from my porch at 6:30 this morning.
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It’s snowing! It’s snowing!

I can look out the window and see huge fluffy flakes illuminated by the streetlights, falling at a regular and steady rate!

It will all, of course, come to naught. The ground is too warm for the snow to stick. But still… It’s snowing!

I LOVE snow!

We really shoulda cleaned out the gutters this past weekend. Or the weekend before.

But from here on out it’s probably just going to be cold, and we’re really going to regret not having gone up on the roof earlier. When it was warm.

And I ain’t it.

I am instead the Brainy Student. And unsurprisingly, I scored higher than 0% of the other respondents on sexiness.

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Mark your calendars!

PUMPKINS TO PLUMMET AT 18TH ANNUAL PUMPKIN DROP
The WVU College of Engineering and Mineral Resources’ annual Pumpkin Drop will begin at 11 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at the Engineering Sciences Building on WVU’s Evansdale Campus.

Michael: Hows this for a chistmas gift? http://shop.lego.com/product.asp?p=4504
Michelle: What?! You LOST the Star Wars Legos I got you last year! (sniff)
Michael: Say this is for you
Michelle: I don’t think I’m the one with the Lego fixation.
Now if they had the USS Defiant….
Michael: but it is the falcon
Michelle: The Defiant is cooler.
Especially when Worf drives
I am really not having this conversation
Michael: yes you are..and i can’t find any defiants sorry
Michelle: I am so totally contaminated by geek cooties I can’t stand myself

It’s masked avenger day here at the land of Klishis.

Batman and Zorro!

Take that evildoers!

Got a flier in the mail (at work) today for Workplace Wellness.

Some things stood out.

First, is it just me or does Ex-Stress Yourself sound like a way to add extra stress into your life?
(Announcer voice, “If you don’t have enough stress in your life, here are ten easy ways to add some EXTRA BONUS stress!”)

Second,
“Do you wake up tried, fatigured, and unwilling to face another day of impacted stress?”

Impacted stress? Yikes! That sounds like something that requires either Metamucil or an expensive trip to the dentist. I definitely want to avoid “impacted stress.”

Third,
“Does “core renewal” sound appealing?”

No. No, it doesn’t. It sounds like something you’d do to a nuclear reactor that’s going bad.

Lastly,
“You can learn preventive measures to increase your quality of life at work.”

Well that just came out ALL wrong, didn’t it?

Luckiy, I destressed myself by laughing at the flier, so I can skip the conference.

I just finished the majority of my Christmas shopping. Didn’t even have to get off my butt to do it. (Okay, I did get off my butt to go check the laundry, but that had nothing to do with the shopping.)

Of course, the hardest person on my list? I still have no clue what to get her. Everyone else? Done! Ha!

Dear Men,

If you are over the age of 21, and are wearing a ballcap indoors, I will automatically assume that you are trying to hide the fact that you are balding.

Just so you know.

And no, I don’t have anything against bald men. After all, many of them are very cute.

See that? That was my head exploding.

This week I’m writing documentation that needs to be done ASAP, trying to study for my gero class, teaching a multiple classes this week, and attempting to finish Cryptonomicon.

The School of Medicine is rolling out new templates for ALL departmental websites. Which is a good thing. Right now there is little regulation and consistency for web pages, so this should be a major(!) improvement.

My part in all this is that I get to teach all the webmasters how to use Dreamweaver, and I have to write the documentation teaching them how to use these bright, shiny, new templates within Dreamweaver. And I’ll be teaching the classes on how to use the templates, so if I don’t do a good job with the documentation, then I’m the one who suffers. So I’ve got plenty of incentive.

Mind you, I like to teach, and I like to write documentation. But I hate to feel rushed, which is how I’m feeling right now.

So I’m relaxing with Cryptonomicon, which is a very good book, but not really the most relaxing one. It’s been so long since I read it, that I’ve completely forgotten almost everything, which is good, because it’s like reading the book for the first time, all over again. The difference this time is that I’m not tearing through the book attempting to read it as fast as possible (my normal pace) so I’m enjoying it more, and I find that I’m better able to pick-up on the clues and hints that he leaves, and I get to enjoy the sudden flashes of, “Oh! That’s it!”

But I really had forgotten how good Neil Stephenson is. Strange how, despite the fact that I remember loving a book, when I go back to read it, I’m surprised all over again at how good it is.

Yup.

I’m a heathen.

I really do not care for modern dance.

We went to see Diavolo this evening, as part of WVU’s University Arts series.

I definitely wanted more throwing people about and feats of gymnastic derring do, as opposed to artistic posing and dropping to the floor in a meaningful way. Because the meaning? Right over my head.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with modern dance. I’m just saying it’s not my thing.