A Day In The Life

Haven't posted in a while, so here's a mishmash of what's been going on lately. Emily is doing great--she seems to have gotten over her pancreatitis and she's back to the happy dog we know and love. The semester is over, with summer on the way. The busiest stretch of the year for me at work is now only a few weeks away and I can't say I'm looking forward to it. At least I'll have a good student staff this year. I had expected to lose my best student employee because he graduates on Saturday. He's enrolled in grad school and wanted to keep his job, but due to some silly changes in student employment requirements he wouldn't be eligible to do so unless he took summer classes (that's not a requirement for undergrad student employees, and until a month or two ago wasn't required for grad students either.) Today he decided that keeping his student job was worth what amounts to a waste of his time and money to take some summer classes (that he neither wants nor needs) so we get to keep him. Unless of course they change the requirements yet again.
Shauna will be here next week and we'll get to spend my birthday together. We're both looking forward to that. We're going to be trying to find her a job here in Reno during this visit, so wish us luck. We're very tired of having to live apart. Whether we find her a job at this time or not, it will be good to be with her again. I really miss her.
Speaking of Shauna, she's enrolled in the local community college and another thing she'll be doing this visit is having an advisement appointment and taking the placement test. I'm really excited that she's decided to go back to school, and I think she'll be very successful with it. I also think that she will enjoy it--I know I enjoyed returning to school when I went back after 17 years. I imagine that she's probably nervous about it, but she'll do great. She's a smart woman.
I went and saw the new Star Trek movie last weekend with some friends. It's great. I also saw a very funny video report from The Onion about how Trekkies hate the new movie because it disdains the traditions of past Star Trek movies by being exciting and fun to watch. LOL.
My favorite sports teams are doing great, too. The Penguins just put away the Capitols in game 7 of that series and have moved on to the conference championship in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Go Pens! The Dodgers are having a great season as well, best record in baseball as of this writing in spite of losing Manny for 50 games. They have a great team all around, in spite of some weakness in pitching, and their offense continues to rack up the runs even without Manny. Juan Pierre is showing the fans what he can do! I do love me some baseball.
Speaking of baseball, a professor that I know a little here at the University, Jennifer Ring, has written a book called "Stolen Bases: Why American Girls Don't Play Baseball." I've sold her a few computers over the years and helped her out with some computer problems, and I'm really looking forward to reading the book. I'll be back later with my review and you know it will be good--I do love me some baseball.
That's it for now and for the two people that I know actually read this blog on occasion: Shauna, I love you, and Inez, I miss you.