January 30th, 2012 → 6:35 am
“So shaken as we are, so wan with care.” – Henry IV
We’re still sick around here….but, thankfully, on the mend…
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January 28th, 2012 → 7:43 am
“Unwieldy, slow, heavy and pale as lead.” Romeo and Juliet
My boys (both husband and son) have been throwing up since Thursday evening. If I have to clean up any more curdled, stinky stomach contents I think I’m going to be sick myself. It’s actually a wonder I’m not ill yet – cross my fingers.
Update, 9:20 a.m.: Now my cat, NoMe, has jumped on the bandwagon and begun barfing up in various rooms around the house. It is C R A Z Y around here!!!
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January 26th, 2012 → 7:37 am
“Where is the life that late I led?” – The Taming of the Shrew
It’s barely two weeks since the semester started at school, but already things feel so hectic! Students, classes, lecture notes, problem sets…where did the time go for just sitting at my desk and playing on the computer??!!
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January 24th, 2012 → 6:37 am
“The ground that gave them first has them again.
Their pleasures here are past, so is their pain.” – Cymbeline
Today is the anniversary (“yartzeit” in Judaism) of my father’s death. It’s been a long time – he died while I was in high school – but I still miss him and think about him every year. I know that at the end of his life he had some joys, but also some serious troubles…if one is now gone, at least the other is too. I wish I could give you a hug, Daddy.
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January 18th, 2012 → 4:44 am
“And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel,
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.” – As You Like It
School starts again this week at colleges and universities across the country. When I was a student I didn’t creep to class so unwillingly as Shakespeare describes here, but then again, I was sorta geeky. That’s probably why I became a professor, after all. Happy first week of classes everyone!
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January 4th, 2012 → 8:11 am
“Weighest they words before thou givest them breath.” – Othello
Many of us are returning to work this week. Where, like myself, we may perhaps have some annoying colleagues to deal with. In that spirit, I offer the above piece of advice. Not that I always follow it either, but it would be good if I did.
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December 26th, 2011 → 9:05 am
“O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother!” – Hamlet
This holiday season was the first time many of my relatives got a chance to meet my newly adopted son. And it went swimmingly! My baby was friendly and cute and playful the entire time, even with all the new people, places, and smells. We couldn’t have shown off a better baby – I say this as I hear him crying a fit downstairs in the kitchen right now, but whatever…
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December 24th, 2011 → 7:14 am
“I am Misanthropos, and hate mankind.” – Timon of Athens
Sometimes, I am just not into the holiday cheer.
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December 16th, 2011 → 6:10 am
“No more cakes and ale.” – Twelfth Night
They say the average person gains about five pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. I’ve still got a couple of weeks to go, but there are so many cookies in the house I may have reached my quota already. Ugh. I feel gross this morning…
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December 12th, 2011 → 6:32 am
“I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.” – Henry IV, Part II
This weekend my husband sat on the couch doing nothing, while I ran around the house baking, cleaning, and holiday decorating. By Sunday afternoon it got on my nerves and we had one of our occasional spats about his couch potato tendencies. But in the end, who really is right? Was it really necessary for me to bake my ass off just to give the neighbors some holiday cookies? Sometimes I wish I could be more of a couch potato, but I actually fear I just don’t have it in me.
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