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My new phone is the first one I've ever had that defaults to different ringers for people in my contacts list and people not in my contacts list. Which means that I can tell right off if I want to answer the phone. I've been not answering Oberlin-begging-for-money calls for two weeks now, and this week they're calling every other day. I sympathize with the student who can't cross me off the list yet, but I am absolutely not interested in the sales pitch I'm going to get if I answer the phone.

This morning the heat came on, even with all the windows shut. I hope the weather forecast is right about 70 and sunny on Friday. The Hairy Beasts are all for the heat coming on, though; it means Lily goes and camps out in the cat bed in front of the kitchen heat vent, and therefore Snip can sprawl all over my bed anywhere she wants.

Yesterday I got handed a data-wrangling project that took all morning and tied my shoulder in a knot. Today it turns out that while yesterday's attempt was useful, it wasn't all the data required, so I had to wrangle some more. I suspect I did it the hard way, but at least I had the required information in the end. So there. Now all I have to do is remember what I did, so that six months from now when a slightly different subset of the same data is required, I can do that too.

I must remember to buy cat food tonight. This is slightly complicated by the fact that I have a meeting that's supposed to end at 5:30, but will end later than that.

And so, having disposed of the senior promotions data wrangling, on to the junior promotions data wrangling. Talk about stripping all the gears in my head...