i'm back

hey guys, sorry for the lull. last wednesday i went home (to indiana) for the NCAA march madness tournament - it's a big deal in our family. everybody takes vacation time off of work and we all just sit on our asses and eat wings and watch basketball for 4 straight days. it's a little slice of heaven - but the weird thing is that i really don't even consider myself a basketball fan. often, march madness is literally the only basketball i watch all season. but there's something about sitting in my parents' living room with my dad and brother and brother's friends and watching the games on my dad's 55" big screen that makes me really happy. it also makes me really happy when i fill out my bracket based solely on guessing and intuition and WIN, as i did last year. it makes my brother furious and it's hilarious. take that, big brother! also, long-standing as our march madness tradition is, last week i became the first turner ever to fly home just for the event.

since i got back my life has been a flurry of catching up on work. my boss has reached new heights of horribleness - yesterday she threw a tantrum in a meeting and literally stomped her foot. she was trying to describe why we should do some totally pointless thing that would take up time for no reason, and every time one of us tried to explain why it wasn't necessary, she would interrupt us and start whining and acting like a 3 year old and at one point she squealed, "but nobody's listening to me!!" and stomped her foot. i was stunned, though in retrospect i really shouldn't have been. then after that was over (after the office was more or less forced to give in to her whining) she asked how the grant writing workshop i went to was (a question i wasn't expecting), and i started out with "well, you know, it was really great" while i was trying to gather my thoughts and she interrupted my first sentence to snap, "it was great? could you maybe be a little more specific? great doesn't tell me anything."

so, yeah, she totally sucks.

umm, other than work, life is good...oh, here's some randomness that you may have read on somebody else's blog by now. on tuesday night, my first night back from home, i went out for drinks at the brickskellar with mike degroot, and while we were there we ran into a whole group of knox people - helen scharber, agnes csicsai (who is now married but i don't know her new name), kelsey keyes, alison chiblooney, and susie stone. insane! helen and agnes live in (or around) DC but the rest of them were just visiting, and I didn't know they were even in town. so, we moved over to their table and had a random little knox reunion. it was lovely.

so, i guess now that i've appeased the update gods, i should get back to work.