I have a going away party tonight for a friend who is moving to Houston, and then Saturday, I have a friend from Lake Charles who lives in Houston coming up to visit friends of his, and I think we will grab dinner and drinks Saturday night. Sunday. Sleep all day?

In the meantime I'm hoping my cousin's surgery goes well. She was trying to explain it on the phone with me this morning. They are sewing her eyelid to the bone of her eyesocket. No general anesthesia either! It's local and then some sort of cocktail to make her sleep. The nurse said "If you wake up, you can just tell them to put you back under." K said, "If I wake up and there is a scalple anywhere near my eyeball, I WILL FLIP THE FUCK OUT!"

Hey, it's science!

All Theories Proven with One Graph

The Journal of Irreproducible Results held a contest to find the funniest graph ever. The winner is All Theories Proven with One Graph by Don Grace of Florence, Alabama.

I love The Journal of Irreproducible Results.

What are people doing this weekend? Hopefully not getting car sick.

Tomorrow, I am hitting the Street Food Fair, seeing Much Ado in Dolores Park (thanks for the info, juliana!), seeing Mary Robinette Kowal at SF in SF, and and seeing an improv show. Sunday, I am helping a friend move and seeing Gilligan's Island Live. Anyone interested in that last one? They have two-for-one tickets.

I'm going to a neat fundraiser tonight for this place:

The Academy for Global Citizenship (AGC) is a new Chicago Public Elementary School that opened in 2008, on the city's Southwest side. Their mission is to empower children to become active global citizens by positively impacting their community and the world beyond.

AGC was founded with an ardent commitment to environmental sustainability and is internationally recognized for its model green school initiatives, including daily organic breakfast and lunch, a 5 kW solar installation, a schoolyard habitat and vegetable garden, rain barrels, composting, yoga, nutrition education, a faculty wellness program and sustainability curriculum. Their most recent addition was a green roof coop, housing three rescued chickens, next to the school's wind turbine.

It's also an IB candidate school, so, you know, not slouching on the academics.

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Tonight I'll get to practice flight planning. Tomorrow I have a flying lesson. Sunday I might go to a Yoga in the Garden thing at the local botanical gardens. Or I might say "screw it" and slounge on the sofa all day.

What are people doing this weekend?

Going up to Maine to borrow my brother's Miata while waiting for my car to get fixed. Hopefully catching up with a couple I know on Saturday for the first time in a month. Also hopefully getting to Scott Pilgrim (and Micmacs, which is playing at a second run theater).

What are people doing this weekend?

Packing, cleaning, then flying to Boston for two weeks! Wheeeeeeeeee!

Thirty five minute of the work day left.

I'm on a conference call with a vendor for a product called Splunk.

Splunk splunk splunk splunk splunk.

So now that I am OBSESSED with "Slings & Arrows" I'm checking out the Stratford Festival (which New Burbage HAS to be based on and also? Go me for saying, "Hey! Wasn't Burbage an actor with The King's Men?")

Christopher Pluumer's doing The Tempest right now. And it's totally sold out.

BUT!!

In poking around for 2011 season, I found that Brian Dennehy will be up there doing Twelfth Night with ...

STEPHEN OUIMETTE!!!!

WOOHOOO!

I'm working all weekend. Maybe going to see Inception for the fourth time, because one of my neighbors hasn't seen it yet, and I have a sick, sick sickness.

Related to work, I just got a call from a guy from University Relations. He was looking for a cardboard box. (!!!) I went into my whole schpiel about how we don't have a warehouse, we don't store boxes, but that he could try the Student Stores, because they go through tons of boxes every day (especially right now) and if he was feeling really brave, head over to the residence halls, because there would be a lot of cardboard coming out of the residence halls this weekend.

Surprisingly, he thought all of that was GREAT, and then offered out of the blue to post a reminder for the students to the University's main Twitter feed to recycle their cardboard properly. My heart just grew three sizes.