PennDOT, Oh Yeah
Katy and I are the proud new owners of driver's licenses from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. We're about five months late, but oh well. I'm working under the assumption that I was not summoned to jury duty in the past five months, so I don't have a contempt of court warrant for failing to respond to a jury duty summons in Dallas, and as long as that assumption holds up, life is good.
The Carnegie Mellon book store had been closed for 17 minutes when I tried to walk into it and buy the book for my Linear Systems class at 4:17 this afternoon, and Katy is presently locked out of her house after forgetting her keys there last night, so without the resources necessary to do school work, we're just hanging out this evening. She's playing SimCity 4, and I'm surfing the web. We're also drinking tea. Dorian is sleeping on a chair with one of his toy balls curled up in his tail. It's a good day for everyone around here.
Last night, Jay, who is one of Katy's tenants, and his friend Bill from work invited us to go out to the South Side for some drinks. Which we did, and it was a lot of fun. The last place we visited was the Z Lounge, a techno bar I experienced the second time I visited Pittsburgh. They make a fantastic mojito, and drinking two of them in good company was the highlight of my night.
Do any of you have any suggestions for keeping large amounts of paper in a portable container? I'm going to have a lot of research papers to carry around town this semester, and I'd like a convenient way of doing that.
Go Steelers! The AFC and NFC championship games are tomorrow, and it will be fun to watch Pittsburgh go crazy if the Steelers end up at the Super Bowl.
Enough rambling. Time to get these papers off my coffee table.
Comments
Many of my coworkers have to carry around large amounts of paperwork as they move from place to place. The preferred "corporate" method is to carry them in what amounts to a carry-on suitcase.
The upside to this method is that you can carry around a large amount of stuff and the suitcase is on wheels, so you are not actually carrying it. You are rolling it everywhere you go.
The downside is that you look like you're constantly leaving for or coming from the airport. If you're okay with people constantly asking you if you are about to leave for a trip, then this might be a viable option for you.
Posted by: arc | January 21, 2006 10:51 PM
Oh, I'm proud alright.
Posted by: Katy | January 22, 2006 02:42 PM
In reference to the paper. How about getting one of the small backpacks with wheels made for overnight trips and airport rolling. They are big enough for multiple papers and small enough to be convenient.
The Steelers hat we got for our young friend is now a prized possession!!!
Posted by: Vintagetealeaf | January 22, 2006 09:08 PM
Bookmark the papers on your laptop. (That is, if they have a url.) And carry a good notebook, full of all the notes on all of the papers you are currently working on. At most carry one or two of the most pressing papers with you. Paper is cheap, but reams will cost you.
Posted by: tlt | January 28, 2006 09:23 PM