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[telophase]

Random boring entry.

I work in the basement of the TCU library - there are windows in our office that start about four feet above the ground, at ground level, so we have a nice view of shrubbery and the inhabitants thereof - usually a random assortment of bugs and bird flocks. Today a male cardinal has taken up residence and is CONVINCED that the cardinal in the window is horning in on his territory, so he's been strutting up and down all morning, chirping angrily, and occasionally attacking the window. "WHO da man? I'M da man! WHO da man? I'M da man!"

In other news an inflatable doll of the figure in Munch's The Scream has mysteriously taken up residence inside the office.

Also, one of my rare political references, but I'm a stats monkey and like to see things like this: cartograms to give a much better idea of voter distribution than your normal red-state/blue-state map. (The amusing thing about the red-state/blue-state map is that it correlates almost exactly with pre-Civil War free state/territory and slave state/territory divisions, which just goes to show how deeply and for how long the country has been divided.

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[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

That would be AWESOME.

And any job where the boss writes haiku in the announcements has to be amusing.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) Getting to be a guest at A-Kon isn't that hard - I was a guest last year based on my webcomic, but I'm probably just going to buy a table in the artist alley and not whine at them to let me be a guest this upcoming year, just wait until I have some sort of actual credentials of some sort. Getting them to provide room space is a bit harder, but I'm officially Too Damn Old[tm] to sleep in crash rooms, so I'll be getting a hotel room with 1-3 friends (depending on who wants to chip in) to guarantee bedspace and a minimum of snoring.

My boss apparently has an MA in English, but he's been the Systems guy here at the library for 14 years. He also sits less than six feet from me as the crow flies, but never *says* anything all corrsepondence to me is e-mailed (well, ok, that way we have a written record of everything, but it still feels weird). And when he had a possum mysteriously appear in his closet a few weeks ago, he posted a picture of a possum in the announcements. :)