I'm sorry about the bad night, ita.

don't get wet or snowy or icy. Where in the US is that?

Where we lived in Wyoming (just below the Montana border) was technically a desert climate. So we'd regularly get temps in the negative degrees before wind chill in the winter, but very little rain or snow. We were only there the one winter, though.

I can throw on my fake!Uggs in the morning without socks and walk Sara to the bus, and my feet stay warm. But I'm only out for about fifteen minutes, total.

I have fake-Uggs in Western NY, and they usually stay dry enough if I also wear wool socks. I would prefer different boots, but I am cheap and these were $10 new at good will, and also fit my calves. If I did more walking (and I already walk more than most people in Rochester who do not ride the bus) they would bug.

Ahhhh, another Monday, another hour on the phone with IT. Good times.

People of Jezebel: if your feet are cold, put on a hat! Keep up your core temperature to warm up your extremities!

That said, I wear Uggs all the time, but really only at home. The soles are too soft for me to comfortably walk in them even around the grocery store. I just need more support than that. I don't have actual boots, though, just slippers. If I actually needed insulated boots I would probably go with Sorel or Columbia.

I enjoyed the Eli playing sex chicken subplot just because it was so ridiculous. It's hard to believe there was actual "fishing" though. Good call on the kid gloves, sumi.

I just realized why I get so irritated when my IT Help tickets don't get responded to-- in fact more angry than I would if I had personally emailed someone and they forgot.

Once I put in the help system, it goes off my to do list. I feel like I should not have to keep track of all my outstanding help desk tickets and then remind people about them. I often have 20 or 30 going at a time, because we do them for everything from web updates to phone issues to having a picture hung. I feel like the ticket system was put in place so that I, the customer, no longer had to follow up on each and every thing. But I do, because I put in a ticket two weeks ago that my faculty computer needed to be set up at 8:00 am this morning because we were administering a computer based test, and I forgot to follow up, and there it was this morning not set up at all.

I would probably go with Sorel or Columbia

The boots I bought for the Land of Lake Effect Snow were Sorel, and they are so warm. Midcalf, and lined, and waterproof. Fairly comfortable, too.

And yes to hats! Especially with my hair so short, if I don't wear a hat when it's cold, I'm miserable.

And I am in a cranky mood, but I hate answering some email questions from potential students. Can't they look online at all? The answers to many of these questions are right there! Also, our classes are rolling. This email is making me craxy:

Hi , I'm interested in registering as an online student for online nursing prerequisite center for lifetime learning courses

What are the perquisites and what would i need to do to become a student and get registered? I would like to know also about financial aid and how soon classes begin?

Sophia,

for that kind of thing, I believe in using gmail's canned responses. I also use textexpander and have snippets of crap I use over and over.

things that are cracking my shit up today.

my daguerreotype boyfriend

I haven't figured out how to do that in Outlook at all. I used to use Eudora, and there was this feature called "Reply-with" and I had all sorts of stock responses. Somehow saving my responses as a draft, and then cutting and pasting doesn't work for me.

Do you have any sugegstions?