birthday month thingy

I have taken the liberty of bolding the things that I think *particularly* apply to me. JUNE: Thinks far with vision. Easily influenced by kindness. Polite and soft-spoken. (snort) Having lots of ideas. Sensitive. Active mind. Hesitating, tends to delay. Choosy and always wants the best. Temperamental. Funny and humorous. Loves to joke. Good debating skills. Talkative. Daydreamer. Friendly. Knows how to make friends. Abiding. Able to show character. Easily hurt. Prone to getting colds. Loves to dress up. Easily bored. Fussy. Seldom shows emotions. (*snort*!) Takes time to recover…

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Whew.

Whew. I got my benefits stuff taken care of without having to trust it to my HR. Now I’m trying to make sure I know exactly how to put in all of the hours of vacation/personal time/leave/whatever that I’ve taken over the year while I couldn’t get in to the stupid system to mark ’em down.

a bunch of things

John Scalzi of Whatever! is doing a Christmas charity drive for literacy. His plan is to write 3 short stories (or rather, two and a poem), which he’ll be putting behind a password. He’s asking for a $3 donation to access those. There’s more information about it in his posting here. A worthy little cause, I think. Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a magnificent, hearbreaking posting of writings, photographs, and now, commentary from her readers, about today, Armistice Day, and the memorials of the Great War. I’ve already seen a number…

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fwoosh.

Know what I did today? I did a lot. I baked two loaves of white bread and a loaf of cinnamon raisin bread, made a german-chocolate cake and a tuna noodle casserole, wrote 1300 words of Pure Drivel, walked 5 miles and did 150 crunches. I’m all tuckered out! miles to Rivendell: 334 nnwm wordcount: 5173 ytd wordcount: 218,500

snoooowing!

SNOOOOOOOOOOWING! *beam*