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 Since I last posted. I checked and I last posted in June 2021. I know I was going to consistently post on there but that kind of went out the window. I kind of stopped all forms of journaling but I am starting again and will try to get back on here again. I like blogging so will attempt to restart things here.

It's only Monday and technically it is still winter here but today it was really sunny out and 70 degrees. Definitely not seasonal weather. Tomorrow it is going to be 74 degrees out. I think I will break out the shorts and t-shirts and flip flops. Why not?

Mishaps at work today. A faculty member missed my committee meeting and messed my project up. I run this award and he was part of the decision committee for the award and they could not get the work done (ie award the winners) without him. We waited for 45 minutes to see if he would show and then rescheduled the meeting - hoping that he would be able to make the new meeting. The no show emailed me later - he emailed the whole committee and apologized. He had forgotten the meeting and was very embarrassed. He is not teaching this semester so he is very loose with his calendar. Bummer for me - now we will have to rush everything. This is not how I like things to be but it is not my fault. I send all sorts of reminders about it. So it goes. Now I have a late afternoon meeting tomorrow. I try not to do late afternoon meetings. Oh well.

I am listening to a city covid meeting right now and they told us earlier that the UK variant has been detected here. This is very scary to me. I don't like those variants. They are more contagious and it is just not good. Not happy about it. So what that means is that I still have to be careful. Now is not the time to relax. Overall the numbers are coming down but these variants are out there. We have California variants too. Just got the vaccine - better stay safe - keep it together. I can do this. Not freaking out but just feel like it is good to be informed on this stuff.

So that is all. Trying to stay healthy and safe while my immunity builds here. Hope all is well with you.

It gets old - we are on our 4th night of protests here. I am sympathetic - I really am (and I think we need some reforms on Police procedures) but living right in the middle of the protest zone is getting old. Helicopters over head, roaming bands of anarchists, looters and pillagers. It is very chaotic and very stressful. It is at the point where the average person does not want to be on the street after dark because of their personal safety. We keep getting alerts at the Uni about what is going on and early release time so that we can get home safely before the protests start in the evening.

Last night they blocked the 80 freeway - a major artery through here - they stopped an Amtrak train and they closed the Berkeley BART station down. I guess that would mean they are being effective since they are getting national coverage. But living here - well it gets old. It is weird seeing your town covered on the news all the time - in real time - live and up close.

I think with a major storm coming in tomorrow night - that will shut it down. Protesting is a fair weather activity.

Anyways - that is all I have - got some Christmas shopping done - all online - woot. And I have sussed out some gifts to buy from some local shops - so I am in good shape here with my holiday cheer.

Tomorrow is my holiday party at work and then I am going to see Yo Yo Ma at the local theatre - he is giving a talk on art and culture. Should be interesting. I have been into this speaker series the the Uni lately - broadening my mind.

Anyhoo. That's it for me. Hope all is well with you!



by yishui on livejournal

I really hate hot days and we get two a year. It is like 90 degrees and I am a wimp. B*tchy moan, moany b*tch. I hates the heat. I am a cold weather girl. When I was growing up on the East Coast, I used to hate the summer hazy hot and humid summer days really. Give me cold, fog and more cold. I like flannel pajamas and down comforters.

So I am lame as it never gets that hot here and today is an anomaly at best. Tomorrow it will be cooler and the next day cooler still. But I guess I feel like complaining and that is that. This post is a rant about the heat. Also - I live in a third floor attic apartment and it gets really hot in there. I mean d*mn hot.

So that is that. This is my rant. I want the cool weather back! You will not catch me complaining about the cold. I have lots of sweaters and warm clothes. I wear gloves and love it!

Post your feelings about the heat here. For those of you who do not know, I live in the Bay Area and we get late summer - Sept - Oct here. So hot weather comes later. That is also rantable. Autumn is supposed to be cool not hot.

Just call me Ms. Ranty Pants about the weather.

My iphone said it was going to rain today. The weather person on the morning news said so as well.

All day long clear blue skies, little cold but no rain.
No rain.
No rain.

I dressed for rain!
*stomps*

Guess they got it wrong.

*This was a post about the weather!*



by nienna_weeper at sayclubsandmore!

Snow will fall to elevations as low as 1,000 to 2,000 feet in the San Francisco Bay Area Thursday night into Friday. By late Friday into Friday night, it's not out of the question that some flakes may fall as low as sea level in the Bay Area. This is all dependent on how much moisture is leftover as the coldest air arrives.



Woo!

Keeping the flist informed as to the shifting landscape of the weather here in Bay Area! We are wimpy here but this is big news for us!

Woo!

This is at Mt. Diablo in Walnut Creek due East of here about 20 minutes but snow was sighted on Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley Hills. Woot!

We never get snow here! Huzzah!

I have been up since 4 30 am when I did an airport run for a friend.


by jeanamarie

Rain and more rain.

Rain everyday this week. Oh the monotony of it all.

RainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRainRain

Feels like it has been raining forever.

*dramatic sigh*

This has been a post about rain. Don't get me wrong. I like stormy weather.

Ohh! We had thunder, lightening AND rain two days this week too. :)

Yeah.


Rainy blink by wildrosedragon

Today's bit of happiness...

Clear sailing and on to vacation. I am almost done here at work and I will be off for two weeks.
*shimmy* Happy me.
(8-final)

I am feeling much better now and doing great. I just checked the weather through the weekend on my points of travel and it seems like I am flying through two snowstorms.

Chicago, IL
Manchester, NH

Oh boy! I better scout hotels in Illinois. Free wifi here I come. Woo.


by cherany at amillionblinks

So ends the day without livejournal. I checked once to see if it was up but other than that I was monumentally busy. Lots of work to do and I got a lot done today. I am glad livejournal is back as it is a part of my daily life and I like to check in here. Is it supposed to be moving faster? Because as far as I can see, it seems slower. The move has not increased the speed any.

Work today, frenetic. I got chewed out for an ill-timed email on comp time. I was requesting comp time and the email was supposed to be sent last Thurs. I had taken no response as an approval of the comp time so I worked it. Well, the email had never sent. When I checked back in my sent messages, it was still there hanging out as an unsent message with the icon indicator for that. The issue here though is that my boss is reneging on something she had agreed to in my review, which was that she would allow opportunities for me to work a little extra and earn comp time hours. I am not talking a lot of time but some. A few hours a month. Now she is saying that is not possible. I am not going to make an issue about it but in my position at work there are very few perks really and this would have been a nice one--to accrue a small cushion of time to use for appointments and what not so I don't have to constantly feel behind the eight ball on the time off thing. She was angry at the timing of my message until I explained that the message was supposed to be a request that happened before I worked the time...she calmed down. I told her that I don't usually do things without approval, as that was our agreement. So, not a great conversation.

This gets to other things, which are the greater ambitions of life. I do like where I work but I feel that I could be working on a more professional level. The job market is terrible but I have the drive and initiative to work on a higher level position. I just have to take a look around and see what is out there. Time to update the resume. I would like more money but given the budget crunch, I am not going to play that hand in the open yet. I will look and see what is listed at work. I like the Uni and so want to stay there. I have sweet benefits and retirement. No need to mess that up.

Sooo...rankles.

So welcome back everyone. I am off to babysit tonight. I feel the need, the need for tacos. So I am taking the kiddo out for Mexican. Yahoo. Fall is hitting too. Fog layer is rolling in and the temperature dropped dramatically. Hootay.


by nienna_weeper