<rant> The federal government allows employees to request alternative or flexible work schedules, one of which is called a “compressed work schedule,” or CWS. CWS enables an employee to work eight nine-hour days and one eight-hour day in a two-week period, with the tenth day off. However, the executive director in my bureau is restrictive […]
Despite the last few days devoid of posts, I am still here, and haven’t given up on this. Friday through Sunday, though, I was spending much of my waking hours editing my friend’s dissertation. My edits to chapters one through three were pretty extensive, but I have to admit that by Sunday, especially with the […]
Last night, I wrote about my ambivalence about the upcoming Pride festival. The situation already may have been resolved, however, as today I agreed to do a friend a favor by reading and doing an additional final edit on her doctoral dissertion, which is due to the committee on Monday morning. At 200+ pages, I’ll […]
I must be getting old… or perhaps just more jaded. This coming weekend is the DC Pride Festival, and I haven’t even decided if I’m going to go to the parade, the festival or any other events, much less think about getting my hair cut, going to the gym, or buying any new clothes in […]
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Alex and I visited the veterinary ophthalmologist today. We’re fortunate in that the animal hospital where he gets his regular veterinary checkups is just up the block, so I normally can take him over there, on foot, in his carrier. The appointment today, though, was in Alexandria, about a twenty-minute drive. Alex hates–truly, madly, deeply […]
Well, after months of revisiting the idea, I’ve finally taken the plunge and, like Gene, Jeff, Vernon and even, unbelievable as it seems to me, Faustus, have bought a TiVo. Yesterday I left work, picked up Alex’s lab test results from the vet to take with us to his specialist appointment on Monday, pulled into […]
While I’m on the topic of rain, over the long weekend, I rented and watched Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding, a richly colored, evocatively joyful, well-scored (by Mychael Danna), wonderful film. Admittedly, my appreciation of it certainly wasn’t hurt by the several very yummy men in the film–like Parvin Darbas as the intended groom in the […]
Yesterday marked a full month without a clear, sunny day in the DC Metro area. According to Virginia state climatologist Pat Michaels, as interviewed in the Washington Post, Monday, April 28, “was the last day during which an observer could stand anywhere in this region and see blue skies with less than 30 percent cloud […]