the feeling of tunnel vision

This generally does happen to me when I’m in school… this feeling of tunnel vision. It becomes very hard for me to escape thought of school. It’s an omnipresent concern, looming just above anything I might say or do. Sometimes the feeling lasts only a few days or a week; other times (like, I suspect, …

Crap! It’s October!

… and, October 3rd, to boot! I know this month is going to FLY by … because we’re attempting to have a yard sale, move, and all that fun stuff over the next 25 or so days. And, I’ve got two massively huge school projects that should be at least 2/3 done (each) by the …

almost a homeowner.

Closing, while exceedingly bumpy, went through okay yesterday, and except for a few things that have either changed or were missed (that I have to sign presently* at the title company), the house is officially mine. What an ordeal! This week has felt as long as two or three. (Weeks.) I’m so glad it’s essentially …

course correction

It’s a miracle. Nothing less. The call came right at 11:30 a.m. We’re clear to close late tomorrow. The aforementioned guy at the mortgage company accepted, on first glance, some things I faxed him last night. He actually did, in about 4 hours, something I asked him to do for me. Unfortunately, I have to …

I have been a bad, bad friend.

For years and years now, people around me — particularly, I’d say, the people I’ve worked with — have always marveled at how I managed to cram so much life into the hours of my days. Particularly since I rarely get less than seven hours’ sleep and always insist on having just a little wedge …

la vache qui rit

Yesterday was our semi-regular staff retreat at work. We don’t do team-building games or sit around the fire singing Kumbaya, but we do tend to get a lot of longer-term planning and projects discussed and started, and it’s always nice to get out of the office for a while and really focus on stuff without …

Hey Steve! Where’s my job?

From US News & World Report, Sept. 12, 2005: See Steve Roberts For Job — or Wedding For cub reporters eager to hit the big time in Washington, there has always been a secret fast track, few more legendary than the research assistant network run years ago by the late James Reston, the former New …