A person who works on our organization died this past week from cancer. She was the founder of the NC Triangle Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which last year was recognized as the top Komen affiliate in the world. She had survived breast cancer for 21 years, but was diagnosed with lymphoma last year. … Read more
I was pointed to an article about changing careers by someone’s tweet today, and this was an interesting point made by a reader commenting on the advice of the career advisor who wrote the article: When colleagues get restless and ask me the if they should stay or go, I always ask the question, “Are you … Read more
We had a snow day today, and I worked from home. At 10:00, I logged into cnn.com‘s live coverage of the inauguration, and I was glued there until about 1:00. I was watching the event on my PC (wired connection), and I was following Twitter on my laptop (wireless connection). I found the commenter on … Read more
I had an unexpectedly emotional day today, which started off mundanely enough, with having my tires rotated and later in the day with a trip to the dentist. On my way to my 3:00 appointment, somewhere around 2:45, NPR announced something to the effect of, “And now, we’re going to hear a recording of Dr. Martin … Read more
Robert was up before me this morning, and had coffee ready when I got up. Sweet. We listened to more of When You’re Engulfed in Flames. Hilarious! I checked my cell phone voice messages mid-afternoon, and found a message from my aunt’s stepdaughter telling me that my aunt is trying to enlarge some pictures I … Read more
I did a grocery run today, and it was cold enough outside that I didn’t worry about leaving what I bought in the car for about 15 minutes while I got my hair cut. At home, I diced the onion I’d bought, and then I browned 1.25 pounds of ground turkey, and put .25 of … Read more
It was cold as frak this morning. If the bus had been one more minute in coming, the tops of my ears might have cracked off. Once on however, I’ll just say this, “Maniacal driving is not a quality I admire in a bus driver—particularly one who has my life in her hands.” Just terrible—drove … Read more
I had the most delightful lunch with Jason, a professor of mine from grad school who’s just a quality human being. It was good to catch up. I’d asked him to bring a picture of his two-year old, which he remembered to do—two of them in fact—and she is just adorable. Among a number of … Read more
Snap, snap from a Walmart greeter! A very loud, unattractive, mean-acting woman walked into Walmart with her two kids, yelling obscenities at them all the way through the entrance. The Walmart Greeter said pleasantly “Good morning, and welcome to Walmart. Nice children you have there. Are they twins?” The woman stopped yelling long enough to … Read more
I showed up for my physical therapy (PT) appointment at Raleigh Orthopedics Rehabilitation (ROR) in Cary at 7:28. My appointment was actually at 7:45, but they told me to be there at 7:30, because it was my first visit. I arrived to no one and after a few minutes, someone came in that didn’t really know … Read more