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We uncovered a traitor, plugged a security leak, foiled a kidnapping, and broke up a major plot against the Barrayaran Imperium. And we got paid. What more do you want for one week? |
Friday, September 1, 2000
One year ago: Site Refresh
Two years ago: Ephemeral
Three years ago: By This Axe, I Shall Rule!
Three years ago, Ray called me Satan because I bugged him into adding next and prev links in his journal. Since then, he's gone through grad school in Mathematics and has a good job somewhere in New England. I liked how, when he started grad school, he went into an orientation session and saw the other students just sitting there, no one speaking. He said he asked himself, "What would Anita Rowland do?" and introduced himself to them all. At that time, I'd been trying to sell him on the idea that going to a new school was a good time to break old patterns. He'd had some tough times as an undergrad, but I think he enjoyed life as a grad student, including the teaching. The truth is that I'm very shy when not on my familiar territory -- but my territory has grown a good deal during my life.
I'm home on a Friday night! Usually I'd go to Friday Night Practice (a function of the Savoy Swing Club), but the dance studio where we hold that event is going through some ownership changes, so the practice won't be happening for a few weeks.
I've joined yet another mailing list. LOIS-BUJOLD is pretty active! But it has this annoying characteristic: the messages come across as being addressed directly to me, so I can't filter based on that, and the from: line is whoever wrote the message. Reply-to: is set to the list address, but I can't seem to construct a rule to filter on that in the email program I use. So finally I decided to switch to digest. That way I only get a message once a day, rather than being distracted by mail that is seemingly personal to me but really isn't, all day long. I like the list content, so far -- good fun discussions.
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It's been a while since I used this basic design, but I wanted to use the picture of me. I put an image of some rough paper over the frame, and a dark rough blue paper in the background behind me. The font is Cezanne's handwriting, bought when Jack and I were at the Impressionist show last year.
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