Everybody is sick but me
Well, hopefully that subject line will stay true as the day goes on.
Kidlet has been sick for a week. It's nothing serious; just a viral thing that produces lots of noxious poops, descriptions of which should be banned from this plane of existence. Since I'm still relatively new at my job, and since stinky_monky doesn't care for her job, s_m has been staying home with him and I've been trudging to work. I decided I should pitch in by staying home with the boy today and letting s_m have a day off (by "a day off" I mean "a day at work," which doesn't really have the same appeal to it). But then s_m woke up feeling lousy today. So she's home, Kidlet's home, and I'm home. I'll be pulling double duty. Thankfully Kidlet isn't acting sick anymore. Well, kinda thankfully, since that means I'll be chasing him all around the house all afternoon.
As long as I'm finally posting something here (once a month, like I've been doing recently, is pretty lame), I might as well give a general update on life in Ohio. I have 255 pages of my dissertation drafted (which includes footnotes, works cited, frontmatter, numerous false starts, and white space). Chapters 1-3 have been vetted by three readers, Chapter 4 is in my adviser's hands, and Chapter 5 is more than half done. Hopefully I'll get that chapter done by New Year's, and then I'll only have Chapter 6 and the epilogue. Then a few months of revisions before graduating in June. That's the plan.
It's been really cold and snowing for like a week. No real accumulation, just constant cold. We had no autumn this year. Went straight from warm to below-freezing. Boo, Ohio weather!
We're experimenting with getting rid of the satellite TV. With the three DVRs (one more than we actually need or use) and the HD channels, it costs almost $100 per month. So s_m bought an HD antenna that receives something like 20 local channels, including a 24-hour weather channel, three PBS channels, a weird music video channel, a couple of staticky religious channels, and an odd channel that shows random reruns from the 1950s to the 1980s. In addition to the normal network stuff that we watched anyway, we're watching a lot of Netflix online. Lately we got through complete runs of Parks and Recreation and The Office (UK and US). Now we're almost done with Arrested Development. Man, I miss that show. It got so strange and chaotic toward the end. Sigh.
Kidlet has been sick for a week. It's nothing serious; just a viral thing that produces lots of noxious poops, descriptions of which should be banned from this plane of existence. Since I'm still relatively new at my job, and since stinky_monky doesn't care for her job, s_m has been staying home with him and I've been trudging to work. I decided I should pitch in by staying home with the boy today and letting s_m have a day off (by "a day off" I mean "a day at work," which doesn't really have the same appeal to it). But then s_m woke up feeling lousy today. So she's home, Kidlet's home, and I'm home. I'll be pulling double duty. Thankfully Kidlet isn't acting sick anymore. Well, kinda thankfully, since that means I'll be chasing him all around the house all afternoon.
As long as I'm finally posting something here (once a month, like I've been doing recently, is pretty lame), I might as well give a general update on life in Ohio. I have 255 pages of my dissertation drafted (which includes footnotes, works cited, frontmatter, numerous false starts, and white space). Chapters 1-3 have been vetted by three readers, Chapter 4 is in my adviser's hands, and Chapter 5 is more than half done. Hopefully I'll get that chapter done by New Year's, and then I'll only have Chapter 6 and the epilogue. Then a few months of revisions before graduating in June. That's the plan.
It's been really cold and snowing for like a week. No real accumulation, just constant cold. We had no autumn this year. Went straight from warm to below-freezing. Boo, Ohio weather!
We're experimenting with getting rid of the satellite TV. With the three DVRs (one more than we actually need or use) and the HD channels, it costs almost $100 per month. So s_m bought an HD antenna that receives something like 20 local channels, including a 24-hour weather channel, three PBS channels, a weird music video channel, a couple of staticky religious channels, and an odd channel that shows random reruns from the 1950s to the 1980s. In addition to the normal network stuff that we watched anyway, we're watching a lot of Netflix online. Lately we got through complete runs of Parks and Recreation and The Office (UK and US). Now we're almost done with Arrested Development. Man, I miss that show. It got so strange and chaotic toward the end. Sigh.