Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

I am a bad little LJer! Bad! caitirin disagrees because she's wonderful and beautiful and the most perfect wife ever in the world. Even if she has a cold sore.

Things of interest that have happened recently:

- There's a new guy in our unit at work. He's okay.

- I got a CD by a Japanese ubercute pop band called Under17. Holy GOD, it's adorable and peppy and catchy and charms my socks off. I listened to it on the plane both to and from visiting Caitirin's parents last week.

- Speaking of which, we had a fabulous time :) It's very nice out there, and the irritation brought on by having to deal with Caitirin's grandmother is fading into that now-just-an-amusing-story state. When we got out there and Caitirin's mom was driving us home, I saw a rainbow cloud. It was incredible - the sun was shining on the edge of this cloud, and the entire cloud was a spectrum of color with rainbows at the edges. Another cloud near it had edges of rainbows too. I've never seen this before. I figured it must be something about the altitude difference (much higher out there). I should look and see if I can find pictures online!

[edit: It was kind of like this, only the bands were a lot thicker and the cloud was smaller, so the colors filled all of it.]

- In early May I saw a faery trail. You know faery circles? Dark round patches in the grass? Well, one morning I was dropping Caitirin off at the bus stop and it was one of the first very dewy mornings. The lawn near where I dropped her off was alight with dew. The sun was still low and the grass was brilliant with it. And as I drove off, I saw a dark path, consistently about a foot wide, straight from the forest to the road.

- I had put in an application for a job at Caitirin's university for a web writing job, and although they're in a hiring freeze and couldn't hire anyone at the moment anyway, they sent me a rejection letter. It wasn't the normal one, though, and it said they were impressed with my credentials.

- We wrote and had dinner with _melisande_ last night, and it was incredible. She has a really great net tent thing, and her garden is gorgeous, and her family is just beyond wonderful. They cooked us hamburgers and homemade potato salad, and Caitirin and _melisande_ and I sat around a fire after it got dark and made s'mores and sang and looked at the stars. She lives out in the woods, so you can see the stars so sharply. I haven't sung around a campfire since Caitirin and I went camping back before we moved in together. And this time there were three of us so we could sing beautiful rounds :) And we sounded great. It was wonderful. And there was talk of shirtless!Thomas, which makes any situation better XD

- I'm in a medieval historical fiction reading mood, and I'm reading Sharon Kay Penman's Medieval Mysteries (SO GOOD!) and The Pillars of the Earth, which is less well-written but still pretty interesting.

Ooh, a TV show about Herculaneum is on.

First things first (you can see where my priorities lie!): My new job has internets, but blocks most sites aside from, apparently, CNN.com and other news type or researchy type things. Bummer. No LJ for me at work*.

Second things second: My new job is nice :) So far, I haven't much to do, because I don't have a computer yet (should be getting one soon) but as soon as I get one, I think I'll have tons to do as I get acclimated to a whole new language of acronyms and terms. My job consists mostly of compiling information and making it pretty and presentable to be sent on to clients. It also includes creative use of search terms in an unintuitive database.

I KNEW grad school would come in handy!

The people I work with are very nice, and funny, and reasonable about how quickly I'm to pick things up. Other than the internet thing, and the fact that I'm technically a temporary worker and am not issued a badge so I have to be buzzed into the office whenever I leave to go to the restroom (kind of a pain), it's a very nice place to work and seems like work I'll enjoy. The hours are flexible as long as you end up working eight hours a day, and if you take time off, you just reflect it on your timesheet. I'm sure they don't want me taking random hours off all over the place, but obviously I wouldn't.

All in all, it was a first-day experience that was better than many of my other first-day experiences :)

Kitchen dug through tonight at home. Put away dishes and glasses, did load of dishes, put cabinet liners in cabinet as they are somewhat groady. Grody? Also, we found a teeny bottle of scotch that the last tenant left in a corner of one cabinet XD


*I haven't actually experimented with this, as I have no computer yet, but I doubt the site will be allowed.