Today is going to be a long, long day.

I love it when they run upgrades here. Oh, yes indeedy. (Call volume is through the roof while we try to fix all the problems the upgrade created)

I've been sleeping like shit, and I'm exhausted. This morning, while trying to hit snooze I accidentally reset my clock, and didn't wake up 'til my ride's "I'll be there in 10 minutes" call. At which point I was fuzzily baffled by the time on my clock (I knew something was wrong, but couldn't figure it out, initially), until about 10 minutes later when I figured out what had happened and reset it before I walked out the door.

I've got counseling tonight, so it's going to be a very long day. On the positive side, chameleonpixie arrives tonight!

I'm exhausted, work's crazy

So if you posted something over the weekend that you really want me to see, please give me link; I'm only barely focusing enough to skim occasionally and erratically.

Yay!

On Friday I was writing about favorite teachers, and it reminded me of how much I miss being around kids often enough to explain nifty science stuff. Also, reading Sagan's book, The Demon-Haunted World really rang a lot of bells for me (thanks for the recs from the multiple folks who recommended it -- you were right, it was exactly my kind of thing), especially about the desperate need for basic scientific literacy.

So, I emailed the Great Lakes Science Center about volunteer opportunities. I don't know yet whether it's going to be feasible to pursue, given my schedule and transportation limitations, but I just got back an encouraging note from them (with the volunteer coordinator's number), so I'll pursue that as soon as I've got a few minutes and some level of coherent brain function.

Also, something interesting came up this weekend. I was talking to Fin and Marn about why I'd have trouble being a godparent in the episcopal tradition now that I consider myself an atheist (basically, that I would have to make promises that I couldn't without lying). Incidentally, I am actually a godparent in the Episcopal tradition to musicalchaos, but I made that commitment when my religious views were very different, and it was, in fact, difficult for me to reconcile those promises with my later change in views (although I did my best to maintain the secular aspect of those commitments). However, that doesn't mean I don't want to make an explicit commitment to the children in my life that I do have a "godparently" relationship with (J's son Brandyn, forestfire's daughter Viv, and firinel and marnanel's daughter Rio). Rio and I are planning to come up with our own 'non-god'parent ceremony that makes my commitments to her clear, and I'm really liking that idea, although still at the very beginning of pondering what exactly I want to say, and how. It basically comes down to "I will always love you, no matter what", and "I will do my best to facilitate your growth, and provide shelter to you when you need it" as the central ideas, I think, but I'm still pondering it all. Insights welcome.

Not a surprise...

And not really a lot to say about it until the legal wheels start churning, but I do feel a need to at least note the event.

South Dakota bans nearly all abortions