today, the campus' heat went out. apparently, one of the pipes that pumps steam all over the campus to heat the buildings burst. hmm. it sucks. all day today i've shivered... a brrr here, a brrrrr there. what is a girl to do? i have on wool socks, a wool skirt, a wool sweater, a cotton sweater, a polar fleece blanket and boots. i am freezing. tomorrow, i'm gonna wear jeans and my over sized wool sweater. maybe then i'll stay warm. … [Read more...]

it used to be, when i first started working here, that i really cared about these gift exchange things. i really did. i went out of my way to find really cool things for really cheap... and i made one hell of a $10 exchange gift. i decided these people aren't worth it. they don't talk to me, they don't care if i'm here or not, so why should i care if they like my gift or not. so last night, i went out in the garage, and i found the "gifts for giving to people when you forgot to get them a … [Read more...]

i'm uttery frustrated with brio and our sadw (yes, it is sad, sad and pathetic). because peoplesoft takes so long to run queries, our it group has made a database for us to write queries against. so, i've been trying to write a query to find all cross listed classes. TRYING. it's not working. apparently, there should be a field that specifies that a class is cross listed, but, someone in their infinate wisdom, decided that there really wasn't any reason to port the information over to sadw. … [Read more...]