Thursday, November 23, 2006
Checking In
Happy Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is my very favorite holiday because I was born on Turkey Day (you probably thought I was going to say something about spending time with family but its all about me apparently).
I obviously haven't posted much lately and this trend will continue for the next few weeks. In the next 3 weeks, I'll be out of town 5 times, make, give, and grade 2 exams, turn 31, and maintain partial sanity. This schedule does not allow time for blogging. And during the past two weeks I've been out of town for several days and had a houseguest.
Not to worry, I'll be back.
I obviously haven't posted much lately and this trend will continue for the next few weeks. In the next 3 weeks, I'll be out of town 5 times, make, give, and grade 2 exams, turn 31, and maintain partial sanity. This schedule does not allow time for blogging. And during the past two weeks I've been out of town for several days and had a houseguest.
Not to worry, I'll be back.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
sick sick sick
We are all sick - me, TheKid, TheBabysitter. Sick. Sick. Sick. We have some kind of flu/fever/cold/ funk. Then tonite TheHusband was making dinner and on kid duty while I was laying down/trying to work a little. The Kid grabbed a pan on the stove and burnt the hell out of his hand. It blistered immediately. He cried for a long while then whined off and on for a while. Our poor sympathetic selves let him watch TV all night long and go to the baseball field in the near-dark (all of 5:30pm). We even made cookies. His pain seems to be gone now and he is fast asleep. Poor baby. Poor guilt-ridden daddy and poor sick sick mommy. Hope your week is going better than ours.
Friday, November 03, 2006
motivation
nothing like a big stack of grading to motivate me to clean my house
in completely unrelated news ... When we went to the wedding in BigWestCoastState we left our stroller at the airport. We had an overnight flight and had to go to work, oversized baggage was taking entirely too long, so we ditched it. It was free, it was our travel stroller, it had been around the world, we almost left it in Ireland, we did leave it in Newark (and they returned it to us), so leaving it in our own airport was a bit anticlimactic but we did it anyway.
TheHusband is back in BWCS for a football game (his best-man gift). I drove him to the airport and decided to check if they still had our bag. They did not. They only keep bags for 3 days (what! 3 days, can you believe that??). But they gave me a different one. It appears to be absolutely positively brand new. I didn't ask any questions, I just said thank you. But how strange? How can the airline file bankruptcy but have new strollers to hand out to anyone who asks? So, I can't get a bag of pretzels but I can get a stroller? hmmm. ok. [Note, I didn't complain at all, not once. I explained to them the situation just as I explained it to you. I didn't really care about this stroller, I just asked because I happened to be there.]
and in more completely unrelated news ... another friday, another job talk scheduled. I wanted to yell out "you like me, you really like me" to academia but I didn't (well, I guess I am now).
in completely unrelated news ... When we went to the wedding in BigWestCoastState we left our stroller at the airport. We had an overnight flight and had to go to work, oversized baggage was taking entirely too long, so we ditched it. It was free, it was our travel stroller, it had been around the world, we almost left it in Ireland, we did leave it in Newark (and they returned it to us), so leaving it in our own airport was a bit anticlimactic but we did it anyway.
TheHusband is back in BWCS for a football game (his best-man gift). I drove him to the airport and decided to check if they still had our bag. They did not. They only keep bags for 3 days (what! 3 days, can you believe that??). But they gave me a different one. It appears to be absolutely positively brand new. I didn't ask any questions, I just said thank you. But how strange? How can the airline file bankruptcy but have new strollers to hand out to anyone who asks? So, I can't get a bag of pretzels but I can get a stroller? hmmm. ok. [Note, I didn't complain at all, not once. I explained to them the situation just as I explained it to you. I didn't really care about this stroller, I just asked because I happened to be there.]
and in more completely unrelated news ... another friday, another job talk scheduled. I wanted to yell out "you like me, you really like me" to academia but I didn't (well, I guess I am now).
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