Double Yuk.

So here I am in Marshall, MN in the middle of nowhere trying to get my learn on for a week with a bunch of people I don't know. Super fun. If anyone was thinking, "Well Jamie, SW Minnesota sounds like a lovely place to whole one's self up for a week..." YOU'D BE DEAD WRONG! Anyway...just have to complain. Yuk and Blech. Double Yuk.

Yay Second Job!

So I <3 Barnes & Noble and thought it would be pretty sweet if I could get a second job working there...so I did! Anyway...extra money and getting my lazy ass out of the house are both good things...so I start on the 16th after I get back from my week-long workshop (blech) in Marshall, MN.

Zee Planes!

So a swell friend of mine up here is an air traffic controller over at the airport and I got a tour of the tower...which was pretty freaking sweet! I must have come at a good time because not only did I get to see a plane land and take off from the coolest perspective on earth, but I also got to see a crazy hot air balloon GTFO of the way of some rich d00ds private jet. Anyway...it was cool as shit. :)

Wheeeee Fun!

So there are some pretty cool people in Rochester. Who knew?

Also...I am officially a Minnesotan! I registered my car today! Motherfucker set me back like $215, but it was something I couldn't avoid I suppose.

Now to get back to work on my accent, eh? Minnesohta. MinnesOhta. :P

I Heart...

...my job and the people I work with.

That is all.

Google owns me...

So I was editing some of my pictures with Picasa (user-friendly and free...LOVE IT!!) and saw this new feature of making web galleries! Hooray! Now I can get to my photos, blog, and email all by logging in once to my Google account! This might not be all that exciting to "real" computer people...but for me it's like Festivus!

Now for the airing of the grievances...

OH! And I was grading papers today and I stumbled across a gem: Something about pain and weight gain being attributed more to "poop eating habits and poor exercised" than to lack of sleep. I totally made a copy (sans the students name of course...) and showed it to all my colleagues. We all had a good laugh. Maybe people shouldn't eat poop. :D

A bit premature...

...but my Cardinals are already atop the NL Central!