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Goodbye. I'm going to try and be mostly invisible until I have a handle on my 20 page paper for what I thought would be an easy summer class. Tonight is a Dollhouse I hate to miss, with a list of Canadian bands I like, Sat is cocktails (well I might hit that briefly) and of course cherrypool, Sunday I like to hike, then the 4th!? In my mind everything is maybe until I have my work done - I can't plan when I can't predict how far I'll be in my work. I just know if I try and stay home I'll get ancy - feeling like I'm missing something. All work and no play.
I think I kicked my cold despite going to work. For once I managed to get sick w/o a sinus infection, minor yay.
In 2.5 hours I have to schedule my fall classes and I have no idea what to register for. The one class I considered mandatory (Dispute resolution) is full with a waiting list. I'm taking a light load based on my expectation that I'll be starting a new difficult job. I'm admittedly biast towards a schedule that has me on campus 2-3 days a week, but for some reason every class seems to be scheduled from 6-8 on MW.
This, and every semester I sit here and wonder why I do this, spending thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on something I may not ever use directly. I remind myself this is more insurance, more security, more options. I have spent a lot of my life ensuring that doors are open rather than going through them.

Politics: Oh Bush is lying is tail off about the Africa funding!
** The president's budget request for 2006 actually cut malaria funding; he will be able to afford the first year of his new program only because Congress insisted on boosting the number. ** Wash Post

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Mierde! I mean yay! I mean mierde! I mean yay!
Ok, I feel pretty in the employment sense of the word. This AM I bumped into a former government-lawyer mentor of mine who had mentioned some lateral positions to me a while ago. He asked me to stop by his office later...well I just returned. I knew he had some choice slots he would love me to take at the lateral level, but it also turns out he has some GS-14 positions opening up in the near future for which he thinks I'd be peachy. I told him about my most-likely-but-not-confirmed deal with the NLRB, and that the info was on the down-low (he's shared info with me before so I trust him and this isn't super-secret stuff anyway). So when it rains it pours? He said to keep in touch in case things don't work out as he foresees many opportunities down the road. I think it would rock to work for him - he's demanding but in that helps you grow kind of way, and of course he's very fair. I've certainly learned from him in the past. Never mind the fact that he's trying to get the IT people to make it so he can have his people all working from home - egads! 80-90 grand a year to work at home writing responses to inquiries!? Oi!

I may not like office politics, but I am getting the feeling that I'm either successful in them or my work really stands out on its own over time. I feel very career-secure in the meantime, yay!

EDIT Oh shit...losing O'Connor:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&e=1&u=/nm/20050701/pl_nm/court_oconnor_dc
This is not good news - I'm a fan of the moderate-conservative. Things are looking horrible for the future decades when lunaBush gets multiple appointments of young nazis. I may marry a Canadian for citizenship.