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Aug. 30th, 2013 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranI feel like it's a good thing that this is a four-day weekend for me (scheduled Friday off + normal weekend + Labor Day), as I am doing All The Socializing and, as queen of the introverts, will need that extra time to recharge before returning to work, which has suddenly become very exciting.
Last night was girls' night out with coworkers at SoCo in Brooklyn, a "southern fusion" restaurant — amazing food, and I highly recommend it. If chicken and waffles are your thing, they have chicken and red velvet waffles which are a real treat.
Then I got home, and received a text that a couple of my Californian relatives are in town, and I'm meeting up in The City with them and my brother tonight for dinner.
And my brother and I are, as far as I know, still going out to Riverhead to check out the aquarium there this weekend, too. Whew!
And as for work, I work for an invasive species eradication program that was supposed to be winding down, as we hadn't found any of the beetle in nearly five years, and were on the verge of declaring it eradicated in New York. Well, it turns out, just a couple miles north of the current quarantine area, there's a sizable outbreak. Something like five dozen infested trees found so far, three actual beetles (and clearly many more out there to do that sort of damage), several eggs and larvae, and more being found every day. I'm sort of torn, because from an ecological standpoint, this is awful. But on the other hand, it's job security for probably at least another four-five years than I would've had.
Last night was girls' night out with coworkers at SoCo in Brooklyn, a "southern fusion" restaurant — amazing food, and I highly recommend it. If chicken and waffles are your thing, they have chicken and red velvet waffles which are a real treat.
Then I got home, and received a text that a couple of my Californian relatives are in town, and I'm meeting up in The City with them and my brother tonight for dinner.
And my brother and I are, as far as I know, still going out to Riverhead to check out the aquarium there this weekend, too. Whew!
And as for work, I work for an invasive species eradication program that was supposed to be winding down, as we hadn't found any of the beetle in nearly five years, and were on the verge of declaring it eradicated in New York. Well, it turns out, just a couple miles north of the current quarantine area, there's a sizable outbreak. Something like five dozen infested trees found so far, three actual beetles (and clearly many more out there to do that sort of damage), several eggs and larvae, and more being found every day. I'm sort of torn, because from an ecological standpoint, this is awful. But on the other hand, it's job security for probably at least another four-five years than I would've had.
