It's been quite a nice day, for all that I woke up with an inexplicable rash all over my face. I used foundation to cover it up, but that didn't work, so I washed it off and went for powder instead, and that seemed to function. Thanks heavens ( Read more... )

Motivation? What is that? I have none. I got almost nothing done on my MA today. Didn't read for 750 or 733, either. Sections went well, though; I asked my kids for feedback, and not a single person said "you're terrible, quit teaching." So that's good. I mean, obviously expectations for section leaders are lower than for professors, so I'm ( Read more... )

Dropped S off at the airport yesterday... he's in Chile now. I'm going to miss him, but he'll be back in early April, so basically I just have spring break to get through when I'll be home and he'd also normally be home ( Read more... )

Christmas tree is finally up! It sparked a fight of sorts, but oh well, these things happen. Hopefully it'll have blown over by tomorrow ( Read more... )

Today a cute boy smiled at me for no reason as I walked by. Maybe there's hope for me yet.

Also, MLE final was today-- done with the class! Woo!

I should probably do a better job of taking my medicine... I can feel my left lung when I breathe. Odd sensation, that.

Finished Dragonflight yesterday. I loved Anne McCaffrey's books as a child (don't ( Read more... )

Happy Thanksgiving, if you're into that sort of thing. If not (or even if so), have a song about soup:

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Also, I'm up to seven 1/2 pages on my 25-30 page research paper that's due December 10. Yay me! I will finish it. It might be no good at all, but it'll be done. We're going over for Thanksgiving (I made rolls) in about an hour, so I'm going to use ( Read more... )

I passed my methods midterm!!! Actually, I did better than pass-- I got 26/25. YAY! Thank you, God. And also thank heavens for bonus questions (there were 5  extra points available there). So even without the bonus questions, I would've gotten at least an 80. I know that's not super (I would've been crushed by that grade in college), but keeping in ( Read more... )

My pinkie finger isn't the least bit numb anymore! At least most of the time. :P

I also contributed my first comment in working group tonight. I'm so proud of myself. I didn't get laughed out of the room or anything, either. Yaaaay. And the post-discussion mingling was good b/c I talked to two people in my cohort, and the working group discussion ( Read more... )

Oh. My. Heavens. There are videos of David Tennant reading children's books as bedtime stories on youtube! How did I not know this before? And he does different voices for all the characters, too! It really, really bothers me when people read children's books and don't do the voices or screw up the inflections. I'm very relieved he read it so well ( Read more... )

I forgot that I read 2 more books this summer!

41. A Curse As Dark As Gold-- Elizabeth C. Bunce (A retelling of Rumplestiltskin. not as good as I expected, but at least it was unique)
42. If I Never Get Back-- Darryl Brock (A time-travel novel about baseball! A guy goes back to the 1870s or so and plays baseball on one of the first professional teams ( Read more... )