The party has been had. The first few hours were low key with about 40 people enjoying each others’ company and various appetizers and beverages. Dressler made an excellent toast to JeffO the graduate, and Matthew, about to depart for Portland, and peace and harmony resided. The next three hours were a little more interesting, due mainly to the addition of Goldshlager and our new location, the Club Tavern, where we had the unlikely combination of my brother, parents, uncle and ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend all drinking shots and/or dancing on stage at various moments. See me for the full story.
Archive for December, 2001
“Can you believe my sister dumped that guy?”
Saturday, December 29th, 2001Retreating to ’90s technology
Friday, December 28th, 2001My first babble entry via dial up. I’ve deep-6′d the cable modem access and returned to ’90s technology. Since everyone asks why, here are my reasons:
- as uw staff I get free dial up access from home which allows pop3 email
- I have T3 access all day at work and T1 access at the public library across the street if I need to do some heavy surfing
- Charter (the cable company) has not impressed me. I’ve never waited less than 20 minutes for technical assistance and their rates have increased twice since I purchased my "contract" in March
- I’ll save $550 next year, and that’s including the extra $ I’m paying for voice mail so that people can leave messages while I’m online
- great for testing load times on sites I create
So there.
All good
Wednesday, December 26th, 2001Christmas was excellent – fun time, cool stuff, great food, the whole fam + friends were all in attendance.
Yummy
Monday, December 24th, 2001The family in it’s entirety went to the Tornado Room to celebrate Jeff’s graduation last night. Regardless of where you’re reading this from, you need to go there and have their french onion soup as soon as possible. Hands down the best thing I’ve ever consumed. All the shell-cracking, steak-carving flesh-eaters said their stuff was good too. =P
Who knew?
Friday, December 21st, 2001JeffO graduates today. Congratulations Jeff, you’ve surprised and impressed us all. =]
When did everyone get so old?
Sunday, December 16th, 2001Christmas in Delavan with the Woods’ side. We met at Millies’ restaurant this year for a change of pace. Great food. I even ate some kind of meat – thinly slice roast beef, I think. Was interesting to realize that all my cousins who I have permanently placed at 9 years old are now teenagers, some of them driving. Plus I got a long explanation from one of my relatives, complete with line graph, of how my fertility is decreasing at an alarming rate now that I’m 30. So that was fun. I felt like they were shooting a scene for Bridget Jones’ diary without my knowledge. Can’t wait for next years’ party.
Cocktailing with Wiley
Thursday, December 13th, 2001Went cocktailing at the Chancellor’s abode a couple hours ago. Gorgeous house, interesting people. Chancellor Wiley himself complemented me twice on my blouse and asked where he could buy his wife one. Which is humorous because Pat picked it out for me and I originally thought it was quite hideous. It has grown on me though, perhaps I need to hire Pat as my personal shopper.
One side comment, I thought it was humorous that only the media half of our department was invited to this shindig the day after we spent 3 hours in therapy trying to figure out ways to unite us as one merged department.
Shrinking our expanding department
Wednesday, December 12th, 2001Spent my first 3 hours with a psychologist today. Our department hired one to help us through our time of transition, as the media people have just merged with the art people. So now we have 50 people in our department – a combination of left brainers and right brainers, currently separated by location but nonetheless working together to create a unified identity for the UW. The psychologist talked mainly about marriage issues (likening our merger to a marriage) which I found highly entertaining and rather useful in my personal life, but not terribly helpful work-wise. As one of only two art people in the media people location, I have my doubts about the whole thing, mainly because a department with 50 people in it with such diverse skills is a lot to lump under one director. But I go with the flow. As long as I get to drive to work in the S4 every morning, I remain perpetually happy.
My second annual holiday party…
Saturday, December 8th, 2001…is in the works. We’re going electronic with invites this year, so it will be interesting to see how that goes. Since JeffO is graduating from CU-Boulder this month we’re adding the graduating aspect which will result in a plethora of 22 year old females at this one. My male friends are elated.