Happy Memorial Day!!!

We had a really easy and restful day today. Eli gave us a Memorial Day gift which was sleeping until 8:00. Thanks Eli! We took Eli to the park. Here are some pics. He's getting really big and he's starting to do the pre-crawl hands-and-knees-rock thing.

Sarah Barnard

Sarah Barnard, and her company Sarah Barnard Designs, is not very nice. My cousin, who will remain anonymous but whose initials are M-O-L-L-Y, is going to CSUN and is studying interior design. One of her classes involved a final project in which the students were split into groups and had to visit a hotel and create a hotel interior design plan based on ideas that they got from their hotel visit. Sarah Barnard was a guest auditor of the students' presentations. It was the final for the semester for this class, and Sarah Barnard helped the professor judge the students' projects. Although Sarah Barnard did not issue the grade, she did offer critiques as an "expert" from the field of interior design. Before my cousin and her group could finish their conclusion to their project, Sarah Barnard cut them off and said, "I have to interrupt you, because your presentation is making me sick." Sarah Barnard then went on a tirade completely demeaning these four students and their project. Sarah Barnard told them that their project was a mockery and was a fraud and complete plagiarism of the hotel that they visited. The teacher actually had to speak up and defend the students because my cousin and her group did exactly what the teacher requested. But Sarah Barnard did not care and she ripped into the students. I want to use my blog as a platform to publicly inform all four of my readers about Sarah Barnard and her treatment of these students. Even if you do not like a student's presentation, you do not rip on them and tear them down as if they are not worthy of any kind of respect. Sarah Barnard's actions are a tragedy and need to be told. This is not the proper actions of a professional interior designer, or the actions of any rational human being. Rational human beings do not attack each other like this. Sarah Barnard's actions are the actions of someone who is threatened by students' ideas and who is so insecure with herself that she has to demean others to make herself fell better. This is all I have to say about this.

How My Work Is Like The Office, Part 1

Party Planning Committee -
There is a party planning committee at my work that plans all parties including birthdays, monthly gatherings, and holidays such as Cinco de Mayo. They meet in secret, closed session and then reveal the details of the party after this small group has made the decision for the rest of us. There is a president of the party planning that bears an uncanny resmblance to Angela. This person likes to plan parties and becomes visibly upset if someone else tries to plan a party. The parties are equally as cheesy and everyone stands around in the conference room with the same low level of excitement as the characters in the show. Today was one of those types of parties that you don't really look forward to but it makes the day go by faster, so you tolerate it.

Michelle and I have been keeping a secret from everyone...

Eli is actually a twin!!!