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Scottsdale was a lot of fun. Things done: 

• Taliesen West desert walk that included a good view of lots of the student structures (bonus!).
• Author event at the Arizona Biltmore, at which I wandered all over the hotel, found all the pools and jacuzzis and sat by them for awhile, etc. Room service is delivered by guys on fat-tire bikes specially retrofitted with big flat trays on the front!  The famous Frank Lloyd Wright "Saguro" window is 3-D, not 2-D; many of the vertical lines are wide pieces of glass turned sideways, so they stick out from the flat plane of the stained glass.
• Arcosanti is way the heck out in nowhere, I can't imagine living there. It's an alternative community, I  knew, but seeing it, good grief, no way.
• Cottonwood's western mountains were topped with snow. The river was pretty big, high water grasses trapped about 4 feet up from the surface.
• Went to Cave Creek twice. The excrutiating pain in my foot 1/2 through the 2-hour hike might have been me discovering first-hand what plantar fasiacitis is. Boy howdy did it hurt. Found a small but wonderful botanical garden filled with birds. Fabulous.
• I got together with a childhood acquaintance that I'd reconnected with via Facebook about 2 weeks before I left for AZ. That was pretty cool. 
• A few hours, a couple of days, lying by the pool IN THE SUN, ahh. Plus soaking in the jacuzzi at night. It was a nice place.

It's SUCH a drag to be back at work. SUCH.

I always get depressed when I come home from a trip, looking around at all the house projects to do that I'm not doing. It's nice to be back with the cats, though. 

Refrain #1, for the 1,257 time: I really have to get a home computer.

I got the new job! Yay!!! Right now, it's a lateral transfer with a slightly different title, but that job rolls over automatically to the next higher level, so, ultimately, a promotion. Also, it's the work that I really enjoy doing anyway.

Yay!

LJ ATE MY POST!!! ARGHHHH!!!

My job interview is on Monday. Wish me luck!

My big!boss completely freaked me out yesterday by offering to let me sit in his office while he told me all the ways that I was wrong to think that the new job would be the job that I think it is. Now, the job description was drafted by me, and written for me. I have to interview for it and actually get it, and I do have competition, but I have a pretty good idea what the job entails, since I’ve been doing this part of it for, oh, years and years. I decided to take my lunch break then instead of taking him up on his kind offer. Later, I talked to perfect!boss to be sure, and we both agreed that he was just having a big!boss!tool moment. Thank dog. I’ll be freed from, hmm, bigboss babysitting aspects, and get to do more of what I like about my job, plus more pay and more responsibility. Good things. (Still, I have to get it first.)

I’ve become a decaf latte addict. Yum, they sure are tasty.

I stayed up way too late Wed. watching Firefly eps, towards my goal of having viewed favorite eps + unaired eps by this Sunday. Is it just me, or is the music for Firefly really, really grating? If I wasn’t committed to watching it, I would have taken the DVD out of the player and thrown it against the wall based on the annoying instrumental stuff that plays incessently while I'm figuring out the DVD remote.

Compare that to Rescue Me, Weeds, Six Feet Under, Veronica Mars, and okay, even Friends. I respond to the beginning music in those from liking it to being wildly enthusiastic. Rescue Me’s opening song (which I'd never heard before; ditto V.Mars') rarely fails to get me up and literally bouncing along to it.