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Oh, no. Hope she feels better soon.

Mozart and I are not getting along right now. We went over this about five times in rehearsal last night, and I didn't even come close to making the jump properly. Did I mention we're performing this in a week and a half?

Bender, I'm sorry to hear. It's an awful decision. :(

That was basically my plan. I don't know if the store in question has a fitting fee, but I'll pay if they do, and I'll probably need to come back and have them baked as well (which I know they charge for).

It is a good day, but I do feel guilty about having to try on skates in a store when I'm not actually buying them.

Made such a strong impression at my interview yesterday that the woman I met with said, essentially, that as soon as I get my driver's license a job with them is as good as mine. (now to practice driving with 12 feet of snow piled on every corner.) Then came home to find I won a new pair of skates in a contest. Sweet.

I have an interview scheduled with a local ambulance company! I know it's just an interview, but hey, it's something.

Now that's worth celebrating.

Clients at workplace were surprisingly even-tempered today, and no one yelled at me or my boss for things that aren't under our control.

The other goalie at pickup very kindly gave me one of his extra sticks to try out and keep, since mine was too small and I don't really have the resources to spend on a new one just now. I can't begin to describe how grateful I am.

Oh, cold weather is fine and dandy. Snow is nice, even. Three major snowstorms in as many weeks (with one forecast on Sat/Sun and one next week sometime) dumping nearly a Zdeno Chara's worth of snow on us ... not so much. Especially when it's pounding the daylights out of our already-in-dire-shape transit system, which some of us rely on.

As soon as people figure out how to clear their $!@%&^ sidewalks, we can have more snow.

Oh god, agreed, I love winter, but I think we need to just cancel Massachusetts for a couple of weeks to sort this out.

Thought I had to open at work today (6:30am), turns out my boss gave the shift to another employee (he forgot I was already scheduled - which is ridiculous because I am still listed on the most recent schedule), and I wound up trudging through the darkness to workplace for nothing. Ugh.

If you could maybe take on the next storm or two until we have somewhere to put the additional snow, that'd be fantastic.

People who do not clear their sidewalks, even if fiscally and/or physically able to do so, should be punished.

Did much better at pickup today (in goal), and actually made some intentional saves (vs. "the puck happens to hit me and not go in").

That's awful to hear. Best wishes for a good recovery.

Never said I liked having oblongball on the speakers, but it kept attrition rates low and meant I got to play more hockey.

At college intramurals, whenever an important sporting event was happening, we'd hook the radio into the PA and fire it up. No need to even leave the ice.

Hey, they've got a certain je ne sais quoi, and if he can rock them, by all means.

I don't have to go in to work tomorrow! (note: I live in the blizzard zone. And work is still open, for some mysterious and unfathomable reason. I work at a gym, for pete's sake. Not an essential service.)

I'll trade you the ability to T-push like a boss for the ability to shuffle more than 10 times without my thigh muscles being on fire. Deal?

It's not so much she has influence, and it's a little more complicated than differences in, say, politics, it's that when she's faced with reminders that I am not the child she anticipated having, she throws a dramatic tantrum. In this case, tore up a piece of employment-related mail of mine. Sooner I pick up work as an EMT (I'll take ER tech at this point) the better. Hah! Thanks for that video. Maybe if I suggest to the music director we can replace the movement in the Requiem with that...

Haha our rehearsal room is usually the children's chapel which is, uh, well, child-size. I figure that even if I can't sing (speaking is difficult at the moment), I can still get familiar with the Mozart, because it is vast and terrifying. Beautiful, yes, but also vast and terrifying. (Last week I literally got lost at least once, and the only words in the section were 'kyrie' 'christe' and 'eleison'.) And also get out of the house.