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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
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17:43 (18.06.09) - Portland, Oregon housefilk?
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Would there be interest in a housefilk in Portland (Oregon) in July? My apartment's property management company thought it'd be a reasonable use of our complex's rec room, so I thought I'd ask if people would like to come.
I'm thinking the weekend of July 25th and 26th, no preference on day. I'd probably want it to start around 1 or 2 pm and break up around dinner time. I could offer some out-of-towner crash space at my apartment, and my complex is on a Frequent Service bus line. We have limited visitor parking as well.
The downside: I'm not nearly good enough of a musician to anchor a housefilk by myself. I sing along with choruses, but I don't have a repertoire of my own stuff to sing nor do I play an instrument well enough to accompany anyone else without advance notice and sheet music. So basically, I would have a very sad time if the only people who showed up were me and my neighbors.
Would there be enough interest that I should get the ball rolling on this? If not, would changing the weekend help?
I'll make another post in a week or so to let everyone know for sure whether or not this is happening with an actual time and date included if it is.
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(2 proofs | theorem?)
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| Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
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22:51 (14.04.09) - Birthday Party Plans Posted
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I just made my annual birthday party invite post to my "party" filter. If you're not on it and would like to be, comment here. If you're on it and don't want to be, comment here. If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (but don't comment here (unless you also want on or off the filter (and that on or off is different than your current state))).
I should have been asleep over 2 hours ago. I am so awesome at this "8 hours a night" thing. Next up: reading books instead of falling asleep!
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| Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
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21:39 (06.01.09) - Where else is everyone?
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So, there's another The LiveJournal Sky Is Falling thing going around. Rather than scrambling to back up my journal (which I did a comprehensive job of several years ago - I'm not too worried about my recent entries since they're just me whining about LiveJournal going downhill and I have comments emailed to me so I probably have them all saved about 5 times each anyway), what worries me is the loss of contact with those I read.
There are some people on here that LiveJournal going away wouldn't affect my ability to stay in touch with at all - I'm pretty sure I'll be able to stay in touch with ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) greatblondelf unless he enters the witness protection program, or at the least gets a restraining order, moves, and convinces his mother and all of our mutual friends to stop telling me or anyone who knows me about his life. Many more are a step down from that but I bet we have enough mutual friends that if I broke down and got a facebook or twitter account I'd be back in touch with them almost immediately.
However, there are a fair number of you that I really only know through LiveJournal, including some people that I really enjoy reading and who seem to be only here. You may have at one point posted a link to someplace else you are but since I don't do any other social networking I haven't added you there. Now I'm kind of wishing I had, just in case. However, I don't have time to keep up with the entire internet, so I really can't join all of these things (I'm stealing the time to write this from my sleep time, which was supposed to start at 20:30 and didn't because I am on the damn internet).
Anyway, if LiveJournal goes away, I am also found at http://www.algeh.com . There is basically nothing there now, but there will be if I ever get around to it and it's my internet "home base". I plan to start a blog there as soon I have time to figure out how to do protected posts without it being a pain in the ass (or if I change careers again to something where public non-anonymous blogging is a little more tenable than it is when teaching). I'm also at http://www.aracnet.com/~linnea , although I have not updated it in about 5 years (the email that goes with that still works, though.) I should really take that old angsty crap down one of these years.
Anyway, please comment to this entry with the places you also are so I can keep in touch with you if LiveJournal goes away. (I have comments emailed to me, so that makes some kind of sense.) If you make a post like this, I'll comment to yours too so we can all have this information in one place each. I'll also post a locked post right after this one for those who don't want their other places public. This is for the other places you're ok with linking to your LiveJournal for the Whole World.
current music: Leslie Fish - The Palace
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(6 proofs | theorem?)
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| Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
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05:57 (04.12.07) - In the NW and doing fine
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So, um, I don't live in Vernonia anymore and thus am just fine. I mention this since Vernonia, where I taught last year, is having the kind of flooding problems that leads to some people being in Red Cross shelters and a second day of school closures. Last year it was multiple-day power outages after a storm right before winter break so I think that the Weather Gods just hate Vernonia (perhaps they are angered by its athlete drug testing policy or lack of gay bars).
Anyway, I'm in Portland and doing fine (although I think I'll drive to work today rather than take the bus because taking the bus sucks when there's big puddles by the side of the road and also I have to stay late today).
I need to find someplace to journal that I can stand so I can be online more again. The problem is that I resent corporate evil really easily and and that I also am too lazy thus far to set up anything on my own server.
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(6 proofs | theorem?)
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| Friday, August 3rd, 2007
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01:31 (03.08.07) - LC reunion
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(last post for a while - sorry - it's hard for me to get to a computer while moving so I want to get everything out of the way while I can)
Is anyone here planning on going to the Lewis and Clark College reunion this October? I probably will since it's my 5 year reunion and I live nearby (within about 5 miles, not right by campus). Since I live nearby, I'm also offering crash space to select LCers that I remember from college.
I've got one guest room which will probably have both a twin adjustable bed and a crummy old double bed, another room with a pretty nice double futon, and my living room has a sectional sofa that can sleep two people as long as they don't mind playing footsie. The arrangement of aforementioned furniture is speculative and may change by then, but the actual furniture is unlikely to. There is also ample floorspace.
Comment here if you're interested.
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01:14 (03.08.07) - Moved!
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I have moved back to Portland! Woo! (I also got a job here in town. The specific school will probably be kept to locked posts, unless I forget. Hi kids! I'm boring, but probably a slightly different boring than you thought I was!)
I'm in SW, which is not at all the part of town I work in, but I found a place where I can hook up my washer and dryer and fit my stuff, so I think it'll be ok. The bus commute will be long but book-infested and both commuting buses are frequent service routes (every 15 minutes or better for most of the day, 7 days a week) so I shouldn't need to deal with much in the way of annoying bus-logistics. I think this will work put pretty well. Also, 3 out of 4 grocery stores that I'm likely to shop at regularly are on the bus lines that pass by my apartment (WinCo looks to be a car-thing from here, but I mostly go there to buy bulk flax seeds and junk food every few months so I'm not too annoyed). Organic eggs are now only a half mile away, and they used to be 30. I am pleased. Also on my bus line: Moonstruck Chocolates and a 24-hour donut shop. I will lose no weight with this move no matter how much I avoid my car.
I also think I need to have a housewarming party! Details to follow in a filtered post. If you want on the party filter and don't see that post in the next few minutes, comment here and I'll add you (ability to attend my parties is not required for being on the party filter).
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| Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
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16:05 (11.07.07) - In which I whine to the government (why have I heard nothing about this from anyone else?)
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| Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
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14:16 (27.06.07) - July
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So, I survived the school year. I am looking for work for next year and am in the slightly awkward situation of being able to find lots of jobs in locations I don't want but not very many in locations I do. There is a certain amount of deciding how picky I can be that is happening as a result (I have people from rural districts cold-calling and emailing me based on my profile on the main Oregon teaching jobs site, yet have yet to land an interview in Portland). I guess I will try another year of teaching before giving up on it, though, since it seems likely I will be able to get another job doing it and I am hopeful it will suck less in a better situation.
In more exciting news, I currently have nothing planned for July. At all. I have a few things that do not yet have dates attached to them (for example, two_star's birthday is in July) but I seem to have a large chunk of free time ahead of me. Given that I don't have large buckets of money I'm not planning on flying anywhere, but other than that an adventure sounds fun. Anything I should see in Oregon/Washington/Idaho/British Columbia? AnyONE I should see in Oregon/Washington/Idaho/British Columbia? Any absurdly cheap airfares you've heard about to elsewhere?
Also, I am going to the Gig Harbor ren faire the weekend of August 18th. If you are also going and have not picked a weekend, I recommend that one. I am also going to a Gordon Lightfoot concert the weekend after that, but I doubt any of you are planning on attending that.
At some point I will also move. I have no idea when yet. It has a lot to do with the whole job thing.
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(12 proofs | theorem?)
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| Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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17:25 (07.06.07) - In which I ask the internet for job advice, because I am that out of ideas
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So, I know I haven't exactly been posting here much recently (for reasons both related to my disgust with the direction LiveJournal is heading and related to my life being batshit insane busy). However, I feel the need to fling whining and advice-seeking on my remaining readers anyway.
Right now, I'm finishing up my first year of teaching. I don't think I've ever been this goddamn terrible at a job. I mean, I once had a job in which I was a spokesmodel for a toilet and had to spend all day keeping drunken contractors from flushing inappropriate objects down it (it was a demonstration system set up outside at a golf course and re-used the same water each time - we flushed toys down it to demonstrate its flushing abilities) and I was better suited to that job than this one (this is probably only funny if you realize that I am fat, have social anxiety issues, and don't wear makeup of any kind).
I have no idea what to do for next year. I don't want to teach anymore because I completely suck at it. I want a job where I don't end up pissed off and yelling every day, then waking up with anxiety in the middle of the night because I don't have everything done.
I did the best I've ever done in school when I was in grad school for this. I didn't even get honors when I got my Communication major in undergrad and I had more than a 4.0 in Education grad school. My abstract algebra teacher told me I'd hate teaching and should get a degree in math instead, but I cannot imagine that being compatible with my studying habits. Against all past history, I am actually pretty good at math now, but I still suck at doing homework.
I want a job where I make at least $36,000-$40,000 a year with health insurance and in which I do not have to write detentions and yell every day. I have an M.Ed and a B.A. (major is communication, took lots of computer science, math, and music performance along the way). I'm good with statistics, math stuff in general, and law stuff. I have employment experience doing clerical crap (mostly with lawyers/legal documents), programming forms in Excel, and teaching/TAing. I sing alto and can kind of sightread. I am also pretty good at Dance Dance Revolution. What the hell should I be doing with my life? I am very out of ideas. Well, out of ideas that lead to employment. My ideas just lead to swearing.
Internets, suggest away!
current mood:  exhausted
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(21 proofs | theorem?)
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| Sunday, May 13th, 2007
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09:48 (13.05.07) - Voice Post
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