Friday Favorites

Internet, I hate to say it but I was actually pretty boring this week.  Does boring mean that I'm becoming a real grown-up?  I hope not --- maybe I need to introduce some binge drinking into my life just to ensure that doesn't happen.  My days were busy and filled with work and my evenings were filled with the continuing search for apartments.  Whenever I needed a laugh, this VT-themed website served its purpose:

On Saturday I have the great privilege of presenting to the local Systers Meetup about IT Audit and why it's important, how I got into it (minus the compensation part), and how it affects what you do (do you like online banking, for instance?).  Systers is such a great email community of women in computing sponsored by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.  I've been a member since 2007 when I attended the Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Computing as part of the Association for Women in Computing at Virginia Tech.  In my Computer Science graduating class of 99 students, I was one of 4 women.  I was the only woman in many of my classes and I expected the workforce to look like that too.  I can't describe how shocked I was at GHC to see thousands of women and the great things they were accomplishing.  The conference's namesake, Grace Hopper, was a brilliant woman with a hilarious personality:

Callie has been quite vocal lately...maybe she is angry that she's not getting enough attention on my blog?  Actually it's probably because I'm not paying enough attention to her in real life.  Like a true parent, I decided just to buy her affection.  She is enjoying this contraption that I purchased for almost half off and is as tall as me!  It's been keeping her quiet and also from sleeping on my furniture so I'm enjoying it too!