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Every week these days I head to my old stomping grounds on the 19th floor to sort through the mail my replacement doesn't know yet what to do with and say hello to Coworker Crush.

She's actually been absent quite a bit while I've been there, but I don't want you all thinking I'm neglecting her. Today she caught up with me as I was leaving to get a soda from the cafeteria downstairs, so we had a nice talk on the elevator down, mostly about books. She's reading Iain Banks right now, and I am about to start on the many and varied PDFs I'm supposed to be reading, but at the moment on the train am buried in a translation from the French of The Memoirs of Hadrian. ("Wait -- " "Yeah, the one with the wall.")

One of my fellow admins asked me today if my boyfriend works in the city, so apparently my love life is even more exciting than I thought. There followed a brief, tactful conversation about my sexual orientation, which may have been what he was angling for to start with.

It's a Tuesday, but it feels oddly like a Monday...

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Normally I don't post Cheaper World on Tuesdays, but I got a tipoff (thank you arsenicjade!) that Groupon has a fundraiser going on today for TechGYRLS, a girls-only science, technology, engineering and math after-school program on Chicago's south side.

Each year TechGYRLS gives about 100 girls ages 9-14 the opportunity to strengthen their science skills through projects and activities that are hands-on, relevant, and challenging. And they're taking donations today! If 51 people donate $10 each, the Groupon will "tip" and TechGYRLS will receive the money (otherwise I think it just gets refunded to the buyers). If you have Groupon credit, you can use that as a donation, which is what I just did.

I know money's tight and this is a very local program, but if you can't give consider passing on a link to this post via your blog or twitter feed. Thanks guys!

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