Ellen W.

Registration for classes opens tomorrow morning and I am really hoping I get into the utopias and dystopias in science fiction literature class!

Registration for classes opens tomorrow morning and I am really hoping I get into the utopias and dystopias in science fiction literature class!

The weather is so nice that the street behind mine has broken out into an impromptu block party. Soundtrack is R&B and the menu is hot dogs.

For the last couple of years I’ve been keeping my eye on the prize of 25 years in the state retirement plan, at which point I can retire at any age. I have six years to go and my job may not exist by then.

We are hunkered down at home for Isaias. We’re to the west of the cone, now, but they’re predicting that to be more gnarly than west usually is. Please send good vibes to the northern Gulf coast.

I got out of work early today thanks to my university’s decision to rent the basketball arena to the RNC for a rally attended by the president tonight and made a beeline to do a thorough recon mission of our brand new Barnes & Noble.

I am looking for someone who works at an airline because logistics fascinate me and I have a genuine, non-snarky question about checked luggage and it’s nothing I’m mad about.

I’ll go ahead with the question just in case this works. Yesterday I flew MSP -> ATL -> MOB. I got to MSP very early bc I haven’t flown out of a big airport in a long time and wasn’t sure what to expect. After I checked in my bag, I got a notification in my app that the bag had been expedited…

I am looking for someone who works at an airline because logistics fascinate me and I have a genuine, non-snarky question about checked luggage and it’s nothing I’m mad about.

Great discussion of this complex book in book club today! I really had to overcome a lot of fears when I started this book club and it’s been a total success - we’re into our second year now. Our selections: Heartwood Love Forms Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Heart, Be At Peace Whidbey

When I was deciding on who to ask about forming a book club, my goal was a socially compatible group of people who were committed to reading and finishing the book. The book club I’d been in before was more of an excuse to go out to dinner and chat than a book discussion, which is not bad but also

Great discussion of this complex book in book club today! I really had to overcome a lot of fears when I started this book club and it’s been a total success - we’re into our second year now. Our selections: Heartwood Love Forms Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Heart, Be At Peace Whidbey

All of the club members have connections to academia so we meet quarterly and so far everyone has been able to finish every book. I ran a survey when I was setting up the club to ascertain a standing meeting time and also find out what people wanted to read, which is new fiction.