Time of day
4:45am: Time I got up this morning in order to take Mom to the airport.
2.5 hours: The amount of time I spent driving (round-trip) for said airport run.
20 mins: The length of my stationary (recumbent) bike ride, in lieu of the equivalent-length run I was supposed to do but wimped out on.
1 hour: The length of my pre-lunch nap. :P
~ 5 hours: The amount of time spent on last week's homework, this week's homework, textbook reading, etc, sometimes while being pestered to death by children.
School dismissal time: When a torrential thunderstorm rolled in.
Two minutes later: When power went out at community college where Will works.
School bus arrival time: The exact moment the storm abated.
4:30pm: When college was officially closed since power didn't come back on.
Moment Will got to parking lot: Power came back on. (He came home anyway - after a quick detour back into his building to do "one more thing now that the power is back".)
May 5: Date of kindergarten registration, necessitating all current kindergarteners to stay home for the day.
May 6: Day I need to bake bread for Teacher Appreciation lunch on Friday. (Don't forget I work in the library in the morning.)
May 8: Date of Chinese presentation. (About which I haven't yet given a moment's thought.)
May 10: Date of teacher inservice, whereby all students will be sent home at 12:30pm.
May 11: Due date of penultimate homework.*
May 11: Due date of final homework.*
May 11: Due date of final project.
May 11: Date of final exam.
Now: Time that I am stressing out.
* Back in February, the professor gave us an extra week to complete one of our assignments because of recent snowstorms, acknowledging that some of us were too busy digging out to work. Frankly, I think the person who most needed the extra time was HIM (I'm not sure any of the rest of us were in the major strike areas), but, anyway - the end result is that the final two assignments had to be stuffed into a single week. This coming week. When everything else is due or happening, as well. He claims they're "easy" assignments, but he's said that before and it was SO not true. And please note that in the coming week I have one and a half fewer days to myself. Just what I needed right now, sigh.
Thanks to scrtkpr, I was able to find the product code on the bottle this morning, in the World's Tiniest Font. Sure enough, all our children's Tylenol and Motrin (including the two in-use bottles) are on the recall list. Sigh. I applied for a refund through the recall website, but in the meantime, I'll have to see if I can find acceptable products in the stores. MiniPlu pinched her hand in her folding closet door this morning and made her usual fuss about "It feels like my hand is splitting open!!!111!" and I couldn't even offer to placate her with drugs. :-P
Ok, despite the fact that I spent a lot of today on the sofa (homework and nap), I'm exhausted. Wimping out and heading to bed soon.
2.5 hours: The amount of time I spent driving (round-trip) for said airport run.
20 mins: The length of my stationary (recumbent) bike ride, in lieu of the equivalent-length run I was supposed to do but wimped out on.
1 hour: The length of my pre-lunch nap. :P
~ 5 hours: The amount of time spent on last week's homework, this week's homework, textbook reading, etc, sometimes while being pestered to death by children.
School dismissal time: When a torrential thunderstorm rolled in.
Two minutes later: When power went out at community college where Will works.
School bus arrival time: The exact moment the storm abated.
4:30pm: When college was officially closed since power didn't come back on.
Moment Will got to parking lot: Power came back on. (He came home anyway - after a quick detour back into his building to do "one more thing now that the power is back".)
May 5: Date of kindergarten registration, necessitating all current kindergarteners to stay home for the day.
May 6: Day I need to bake bread for Teacher Appreciation lunch on Friday. (Don't forget I work in the library in the morning.)
May 8: Date of Chinese presentation. (About which I haven't yet given a moment's thought.)
May 10: Date of teacher inservice, whereby all students will be sent home at 12:30pm.
May 11: Due date of penultimate homework.*
May 11: Due date of final homework.*
May 11: Due date of final project.
May 11: Date of final exam.
Now: Time that I am stressing out.
* Back in February, the professor gave us an extra week to complete one of our assignments because of recent snowstorms, acknowledging that some of us were too busy digging out to work. Frankly, I think the person who most needed the extra time was HIM (I'm not sure any of the rest of us were in the major strike areas), but, anyway - the end result is that the final two assignments had to be stuffed into a single week. This coming week. When everything else is due or happening, as well. He claims they're "easy" assignments, but he's said that before and it was SO not true. And please note that in the coming week I have one and a half fewer days to myself. Just what I needed right now, sigh.
Thanks to scrtkpr, I was able to find the product code on the bottle this morning, in the World's Tiniest Font. Sure enough, all our children's Tylenol and Motrin (including the two in-use bottles) are on the recall list. Sigh. I applied for a refund through the recall website, but in the meantime, I'll have to see if I can find acceptable products in the stores. MiniPlu pinched her hand in her folding closet door this morning and made her usual fuss about "It feels like my hand is splitting open!!!111!" and I couldn't even offer to placate her with drugs. :-P
Ok, despite the fact that I spent a lot of today on the sofa (homework and nap), I'm exhausted. Wimping out and heading to bed soon.