Laurabelle’s Blog

This morning I dreamed that a polar bear was prowling around outside my house and then inside it, and all I could do was hide and hope it didn't try too hard to find me. I think this is reflective of my general state of anxiety.

Work is still Interesting. There is good news, however; it seems I can expect to be employed for the foreseeable future, I think. At least a few months of that time will be 69 hours per month rather than full-time, and I still haven't got benefits. On the other hand, right now 69 hours is [...]

Two months ago, I read Ella Minnow Pea and started this post. A couple of weeks after that, I started a great entry and then lost it because I closed the browser without remembering to save my draft. This entry will not be as good, but since it has lain on my desk for more [...]

If I said that this week at work was interesting and that we put in long hours, that would be an understatement almost as massive as Dubya allowing that we're having a couple of problems in Iraq. I'm not sure how much I can say about it on a public blog, though. We went live with [...]

Sorry I haven't blogged in a week and a half; life has rather been consumed by the migration. I'll poke my head up again in a couple of days, when circulation is live and we're not all completely swamped.

Yesterday, just as I was leaving work, someone killed inetd on the Dynix server. (I won't tell you who did it, but it wasn't me. I don't even have that kind of access.) Apparently this has happened before, and it's not exactly a catastrophe, in that it's a fixable problem that doesn't destroy anything. It [...]

A friend and fellow alumna from MHC interviewed me today for an article she's writing for the Alumnae Quarterly, about students and alumnae with blogs. Apparently it's to be the cover story for either the fall or the spring issue.

Seeing those idiots on the ice cliff, so close to catastrophe, made Jeff and me realize that we really need a good first-aid kit, not only for ourselves (although that’s certainly important) but for the less-prepared around us. Some of the other hikers on that trail today were obviously experienced, but the overwhelming majority were [...]

I’m feeling a lot better this morning than I was last night. I woke up in the middle of the night, needing to use the bathroom, legs screaming—but Jeff woke up when I whimpered in pain, and he brought me a glass of water for my aspirin. The aspirin made me feel much better, and [...]

I’m too tired to blog right now, even though I really want to. I’m too tired, and sitting up is too painful. (Note to self: 1700 feet of elevation gain in 5.5 miles, round trip, is not good when one hasn’t been hiking in over a year, and that somewhat mild.) But I remembered my [...]