life, apparently

The next time I disappear for months, it is probably because I've been jailed for yelling at, questioning, or otherwise objecting to the conduct of the TSA. I just can't take these ridiculous travel rules anymore, the inconsistent application (and invention) of rules, and the fact that it takes 8 people to watch me walk through a metal detector.

But this absence wasn't due to the TSA, in fact it was just a vacation.

If you define vacation as

• attending a conference
• two trips to NewTown one of which involved buying a house
• packing parts of current house because my moving allowance which purportedly covered the entire cost of packing and moving was $1300 less than the actual cost!
• scanning every paper that I own to eliminate dragging 12 boxes of papers to my new digs
• hosting The(pregnant)Sister and TheNephew for a week vacation
• sleeping a.lot.
• trying not to strangle anyone while TheHusband was out of town and TheKid was sick and therefore the most grouchiest grouch in town
• traveling to TheParents for various family functions
• writing a paper
• attending a great wedding, so great that we missed our return flight
• prepping a new class - I have to say even I think this class just might be TheFun and as a student I hated this class. Hated it. I skipped too many classes to count, slept through a number of others, and still pulled out an A. Part of my motivation in making it TheFun was to prevent having any students like myself.
• having a yard sale where we sold one dishwasher for $100 and $400 of crap - seriously people love our junk. I don't know why, it is just your typical junk. When we left GradSchoolTown, we had a yard sale in the parking lot of our apartment complex (classy, I know) and made $500 on crap ($100 on a camera and $100 on a treadmill). I think it is the fun price stickers I make. A few samples "have no clue what this does 25cents", "sometimes work, sometimes doesn't $5", "makes excellent bread, I'm just too lazy to use it $8", "fan works, cover is broke, if you want to fix it, its yours, free"
• donating to Obama

yeah, so I'm back