Girls Do the Stupidest Things for Beauty

Confession: I get my eyebrows waxed. Have been regularly for about a year now. With my Dad's Russian genetics, I gotta.

When I went on Saturday to get my hair trimmed and my eyebrows waxed it definitely felt different. It hurt more then it usually does and continued to hurt.

When I got home, I freaked. I totally had two burns. I think the wax was either a little too hot or got a little too close to my eyelid skin.

Today I have a scab -- yes, really -- above each eye and below my eyebrow. I almost wore my glasses to distract but then I just looked like a girl with glasses and two scabs above each eye.

And to add injury to insult, I am attending and presenting at a regional conference this Thursday. LOL.

What a dork!

Okay ladies -- and gentlemen -- what stupid things have you done because of vanity?

373 E-Mails!

In an effort to maintain my sanity, I have a separate e-mail address I use to subscribe to professional listservs, sign-up for professional stuff, etc. You get the idea. It's different from my personal e-mail but still keeps that kind of stuff out of my work e-mail box.

It's a Gmail account, so one nice thing is that it will group "discussions" together, making related e-mails easy to read.

Only, it has 373 UNREAD e-mails. So, all of these are from professional listservs, mostly from just one listserv.

I think I might have to wave the white flag and just mark all as read and delete them. I don't know what else to do. I'm pretty good about catching the job postings and deleting those quickly. But I have this bad habit of saving the other topical e-mails, telling myself that's useful information and I'll read it later. Only later is here and I now have 373 that I haven't read.

Yikes.

Update

Apparently the leak is "non-hazardous" but the company should be coming out to fix in a couple of weeks.

Gas Leak?!

My neighbors just let me know that they're smelling gas coming out of our gas curb box by the street. Sigh. I can't believe this stuff always happens when Matt is gone. I called and reported it. Stay tuned....

Adventures in Branch Librarianship

(or, what you should learn about in management classes)

So far this semester our branch library has:

1. Had a leak in the ceiling which damaged a few books.

2. Had an uneasy incident involving one of our student employees and an angry ex-girlfriend.

3. Had to operate despite unavoidable absences of both staff people at the same time.

4. Found ourselves in an new organization division with a new direct boss.

That's just so far this semester and we haven't even gotten to spring break yet!

When Did 10 pm Become Too Late?

Last weekend some friends invited me to join them for trivia. Sounded like fun and I was actually up for it. Until I learned that it didn't start until 10 p.m. 10 p.m.?! I thought. That's late. And it was even a Friday night. Not like I had to get up super early to go to work the next day.

So I started thinking and asked myself, "When did 10 p.m. become too late?" I mean, it's not like we have kids or anything yet. Though after a long day of work, commuting 45 minutes each way, and some hours at home, not to mention all that other stuff I gotta do once I get home, I am usually ready for bed long before the DVR reads 10 p.m.

The Great Hunter

The great hunter. Isn't she terrifying in her jungle lair? Mice tremble and run away. Or so we hope.