Wintry mix

[bironic]

Last call for holiday cards...

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I will be in Boston this weekend, Saturday through Tuesday if all goes as planned, and so (a) will be fairly incommunicado and (b) am wondering if any Cantabridgians/Bostonians/Brookliners/whoevers want to maybe meet up one of those days for hot chocolate or something? I don't know exactly where I'll be when, other than that Monday afternoon/evening is the grad information session and interview behind the whole trip, but if anyone's interested, maybe we can work something out.

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The Project of Doom at work is going fairly well, considering that the deadline is in two days. Aside from all the extra time I've been putting in, it's actually been kind of enjoyable getting to work on only one project for two weeks straight instead of a dozen projects daily. In that short time, I've noticed an improvement in my mood and ability to concentrate. There's a definite team spirit in the air, too, among the five of us who're working on this thing. The revisions are going to be annoying, though, and will probably stretch out into the new year. Still—what I need to get done by Friday should be done by Friday, and that means I'm in the running for the promised promotion (at long last!).

In other news, it's definitely December. On the 1st, the temperature dropped into the 20s with a stinging wind; it snowed about an inch on Sunday (and then rained, which washed it all away); and today it was cold and windy again and started to flurry in mid-afternoon, so that by the time I drove home, ghostly whorls of powdery snow were blowing across the road in the wakes of cars, visible patterns of turbulence. The dusted trees and bushes on our street are glowing, eerie and beautiful, under the lamplight.

Comments

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Yay for meeting deadlines on the Project of Doom!

I'd love to get together over the weekend, but I have no idea what my schedule (or my health) will be like. Will you be anywhere near North or South Station? (It's a lot easier to take the train in than to drive into Boston.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it! I'll almost certainly be taking the bus from/to South Station, so will be around that area Saturday afternoon (~2:00) and Tuesday morning, if either of those works for you. I can email you my cell phone number?

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Cool! Saturday afternoon is a distinct possibility. Tuesday morning is less likely because of work deadlines.

I can email you my cell phone number?

Please do, and I'll email you my phone number. (I have no cell phone, alas.)

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Will do. Saturday is probably better anyway -- less time pressure with not needing to catch the bus. If it doesn't work out, maybe next time -- and maybe I'd have the car, then, as I often do, and could stop on the way and then you wouldn't need the train.

Anyway. Emailing.