How I Wonder

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

• I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity
• Update your journal with the answers to the questions
• Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

Haha, if this doesn't get my Trekkie friends going, what will? ;)

These are the questions from hellosarah:
1. Your most favorite and least favorite things about living in Colorado.

My favorite things? Well, for starters, I absolutely love my job. :) I love the dryness of the climate, the smell of sagebrush and juniper after it rains or snows, the near-constant blue sky and red dirt and getting to dig sometimes and being around some really terrific people all the time at work.

My least favorite things? The fact that there's STILL SNOW in winter :P That, and the part about how Ronnie doesn't want to live here...yeah. That one.

2. What made you start ripping clothes apart and sewing them back together? ;)

The realization that my drawers were REALLY full! Haha. Also, Paul kept giving me shirts that were too big, and so did schools. So...new projects! :) I'm going to start on my CCAC hoodie this week probably.

3. How's work?

Pretty good! We finished up our teaching season last Thursday (though tomorrow we're doing a local outreach program), and now we're into the lull of winter...this year we most likely won't get laid off, so that's a positive change from last year. I will probably spend a lot of time helping in the lab since we have grant funded projects for research and not so much for education yet.

4. How's Darwin?

Darwin is a good doggie! He's mellowing out quite a bit, though he still barked a LOT Halloween night and likes to wake Ronnie up in the middle of the night too.

5. When are you coming home?

Um.

Hmm.

When Steph gets married? :D

In the following (standard-issue very long) entry, assume that "we" means some combination of me, Susan, Becky, Paul, Fumi, Steve, Grant, Jonathan, Lew, Jamie, Sarah, Kristin, Mark, Ricky, and/or Bill Lipe. (Primarily any of the first ten are involved in a given part of this. Bill Lipe is only noted because he traveled down with us and amazingly, actually knew my name without anyone having formally introduced us before. Names are listed so as to give some idea of the scale of this venture. I had not traveled for any significant length of time with these people before.)

( I've been in Tempe )

Trip post, as usual, to follow after I get caught up on yuletide stuff (I've been reading a little every day but haven't yet sat down with the archive and really *read*) and figure out what the deal is with my sticky l key.

Oh--an amusing trip thing--we walked a couple of blocks in LA yesterday right behind Danny Bonaduce without realizing who it was in front of us. That was kind of funny.

I'm in a Starbucks on Fisherman's Wharf in SF; got two awesome Fifth Element stories for yuletide, linzeems did you get my package? Text me!, I should let rinnaldo check his email so *hugs* to all and I'll post more later :)

Okay! Before I put the link in here, a few comments.

This is a very, very long post. Therefore, if you read the whole thing, you will receive a special prize. I will include instructions on how to obtain your prize somewhere within the post. There is no deadline by which you must read this, so take your time ;)

( The whole two weeks, summed up in 10 pages, with minor censoring. )

Well, Ronnie and I are going on vacation now and escaping a city powerless to stop us! (Hee, I made a pun.)

We'll be back in a couple of weeks. (I may be online periodically since we're being techno-happy and bringing the laptop.)

Bye!!