slightly tipsy blogging

It's been a long, long week. We've had week-long on-campus training in conjunction with restructuring, all of which was capped off with a work-sponsored happy hour, from which I just returned.

So, I'm happy, and a little tipsy.

In other news, a cool 10k has been wired from our savings account to the title company. We are all set to close on the very first home of our own on Monday morning.

In a few minutes, I'll meet up with Woodstock to attend the year-end departmental awards shindig, complete with booze and appetizers. I know it's easy to complain about this stuff, but I actually like hanging with Woodstock's students. They all adore him, and it's cool to see the tangible benefits of the graduate degree. As a bonus, his colleagues don't treat me like an idiot just because I'm a staff member.

Speaking of Woodstock, this week we found out that one of his films has, unbeknownst to him, been making the rounds of small, competitive political film festival. It must be nice to get substantive lines on the CV without even trying.

For long-time readers of this blog, EFB is now an uncle. Talk about another planet heard from ... I got an e-mail from him about it this week.