Salad. It's great! I've fallen in love with salad from a place very near where I presently work. You select your ingredients. They have good variety, and mix whatever you like into a nice salad. It tends to come with a bagel that's not that great, but it rocks. I think, in retrospect, that I like it better than most meaty meals I've ever had. Good thing too -- apart from indian food, I'm fully veggie. It's easy. I'm even finding myself often disgusted by the smell of meat. It's such a change.

Talk. I just have to say that it's much better to talk about issues than let them sit, unspoken, in one's head. I was unsure, but I did it, and I'm feeling so much better now.

Calendar. Ever notice how people use calendars and other written-out structured things so much more flexibly than they use software designed along the same ideas? There's something engaging about a blank box and a pen, something that, at least in laying out a form, needs that openness. I've never seen a calendar program I've been comfortable with. I'm thinking about this phonomena -- how to let people store information in a way that feels natural to them, even should that way differ from day to day, and yet still have that information digital, in searchable form, and convenient for a computer to process.

Ahh, yes. Job. Two things... my current job is winding down. I'm transferring some of my knowledge to one of the people who's already there, and they're busy at work bringing in a replacement for me. I was worried about the timing, but today I got an email, asking for an interview, and it's for a really awesome job that I am very excited about. I'm making a trip to Pitts next monday to interview in the morning. It's probably unwise to comment too much about things at this point, but I believe that this job is the perfect lead into my future. I hope I get it, and believe that I am qualified and probably one of the more enthusiastic people on the topic that they could hire. If I get the job, then it, and my relationship, will make my life dreams essentially be "in the bag" for me.

Ugh, very sleepy. Can't stay awake. Good night.