Turns out I’ve met an actual Russkie spy!
It suddenly sunk in yesterday that the Ann Foley who showed me some condos in Cambridge over the past few months was the same Ann Foley who is (allegedly) a spy for the Russians.
Bizarre, and probably also rather unnerving for home sellers whose houses she has been wandering through.
Since I’m not allowed to be excited about it anywhere where people she knows can see, I’ll just use this to be a bit excited for my girlfriend. She finished her bachelor’s degree this summer with a cum laude, and her bachelor’s essay + degree has so far netted her an interview in one of her country’s main newspapers, it’s been linked on the country’s main gay website, she’s been asked to rewrite it as an article for a journal about gender (it’s a small pond, granted), got invited to some sort of congratulatory event with the president (which she couldn’t attend, but whatever), and most importantly, got her the top scholarship in the country, enabling her to actually do what she wants in the autumn.
I probably missed some awesomeness because I’m so used to my own mediocrity that I’m rather amazed!
Wow, all those republicans on the main pagelook so sensible and mentally well balanced. I don’t know what it is, but now I want to vote for each republican candidate listed.
Seriously dude? Are you confusing this with P&R?
Pretty dick move to take a random jab after someone shared some info in connection with a job issue.
What? I said those Republicans looked sensible and well balanced. My gut tells me they are all about restoring family values, hard work, and personal responsibility to this great US of A. That’s some pretty spiffy web design too!
What’s not to like?
maybe it’s the SIRE Forum for Young Researchers.
Siren
6067
If you google my actual legal name, the SFYR site is one of the first hits. And my friend’s name is pretty verboten around that office from what she herself has told me. I know that this is what actually happened, because my friend’s friend who is still employed at the office emailed me to tell me. But, as was said earlier in the thread, I think this is all for the best, to be honest. I don’t want to work at a place that will judge me so harshly on my friends and acquaintances.
P&R is two sub-forums up. I don’t generally discuss my personal politics on the internet, but I’m almost too liberal for the SFYRs, yet I’m too conservative for San Francisco. I have my own ideology, I just find being around other self-identified conservatives is a breath of fresh air in SF.
Sarkus
6068
This is pretty sad and messed up:
A regular customer, an older guy in his sixties, came in to pick up a laptop he had ordered on the company website. He had ordered three, but this one took longer to arrive then the others. Meanwhile, the company had been notified that he had used a stolen credit card to buy all of them. I didn’t know anything about this until right when I went to go get his order, and then I had to stall him while the cops were called. After he was arrested, he told the cops he was involved in this because the people actually stealing the credit cards were feeding his methadone addiction.
Phone interview went well and now have an in person interview on Monday. It would have been sooner but the person who’d be interviewing me is on vacation until then. They also require a criminal background check before I can start, this is a first for me.
Karen
6070
The North East (New England + New York) welcomes you to the party :)
Yeah. We need more Rockefeller Republicans out here, if only to keep the loonies in check. ;)
JoshV
6073
So I’ve accepted a position in Issaquah, Washington. Now for the daunting moving process. Any bad areas that I should look out for? I grew up in Lynnwood but haven’t lived up there in seven years, and I’m sure things have changed, like Issaquah now seems to be less rural.
nlanza
6074
I appear to be buying a house:
It’s a 108-year-old Queen Anne victorian on a double lot:
It has a friggin’ gazebo in the side yard:
I’m alternately excited and terrified; the thought of packing up all my crap and selling the current house is more than a little overwhelming.
I hope your name is not Eric.
The Tale of Eric and the Dread Gazebo:
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/Jul/gazebo.html
What Rimbo said. Wow! It actually makes me miss Pittsburgh.
-xtien
“Sunny? You’ve been out there two years and that’s all you’ve got to say?”
Rimbo
6078
OMG, I’d forgotten that one. That one’s a classic.
(How the hell did you remember that?)
nlanza
6079
Thanks, folks. I threw some more pictures up here.
The place is also like two blocks from the park and two blocks from my favorite coffee shop.
We gotta gut and redo the kitchen and have HVAC guys come and put in AC before we move in, which is not helping my impatience.
Also, the gazebo isn’t white and isn’t on a hill, so hopefully we’re safe.
That is an absolutely awesome looking house, Nat. I especially like the… well, everything, really. But the servant’s stairwell, the mantle, and the open beams in that room with the ceiling fan are quite nice. And with the viney, floral decor, it has a bit of a fairytale quality to it.
