- 10:52 All kidding aside, congratulations to everyone at @CERN for getting the #LHC up and running without needing to use a #crowbar. (via @wilw) #
- 00:56 @jephjacques Now I'm morbidly curious about what comic it is. Or do you just mean in general? #
- 00:19 @neilhimself Happiest of birthdays! May it be lovely and full of tea. #
- 13:28 @Warcraft All the time. I wish there was a way for me to be able to re-dye my gear, paint it or *something*, either w/crafting or buy it. #
- 12:25 @MonkeyPunchers Brushing regularly helps and the kitties dig it. Silly name but the furminator is awesome. Pricey though, check eBay for it. #
- 10:28 RT Tweet "Grammar Devotional" and the following link for a chance to win the book: tinyurl.com/yz3r4sj. (via @GrammarGirl) #
*In class feel good writing assignments: Read! (And the blatant ass kissing wasn't nearly as nice as the honest "I feel better about myself as a student now" ones. But I'm not turning it down.)
*Birthday dinner: Eaten! (Finally. But it was super tasty and worth waiting for, and now I have a fridge full of ribs and brisket. Nom!)
*Plays watched today: 1! (All In the Timing at STC. It made me giggle mightily, but it was obvious that a people weren't getting all the jokes.)
*Possible houses to buy located: 4! But two of them are most probably out of our price range, and the other two are dare to dream situations.
*Times Puck has tried to delete this because OMG IT'S BEDTIME, MOM OFF THE COMPUTER!: 2 (Thank god for restore from draft.)
*Where I'm going right now: Bed. Alright, Puck? Bed. As if you're going to come cuddle anyhow, you just want me asleep and not knowing what you're up to. I remember my sneak out strategies from when I was a teenager! (The thought of having a teenage girl is terrifying, not because of teenage boys, but because I remember what it was like.)
- Mood:
tired
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persephoneflame, and various and assorted other people. There were assorted hijinx, as one might expect, but the highlight was Adri creating a "nagbook" which was a netbook she modified to nag you until you actually worked on whatever it is you were supposed to be doing. I said something about maybe I needed one for my thesis. Then Neil Gaiman gave me a stern, but gentle, lecture about getting my ass in gear and working on that. It's so wonderful to have subtle, nuanced dreams. >.<In thesis news, I have 59 pages done right at this moment. Jean (my committee chair) wants 90 pages and a start on my bibliography by the end of November. I've got at least another 10 pages on the story I'm working on right now, so that puts me in the 70ish area. I wanted to write something new, and that would do up those last 20 pages, but I'll have to write fast. Plus it's really supposed to be 90 polished, nearly ready to go gages, and I still have a lot of editing to do. Actually, there's another story that needs some major rewriting that will push the page count up, so I may not have quite as much to do as I though. We'll see, though. I'm worried that I'm going to have a to drop a story, because I'm not sure how well it's fitting in with the rest of the collection. And I really ought to start the bibliography.
But today will be good! We're got comp tickets to a play at STC (I think it's All in the Timing, but I might be wrong). Cool enough in itself, but we're comped because of more potential awesomeness. And after the play we're doing my birthday dinner with my family. Yes, it's been nearly a week.
And I'm ignoring the fact that I have a stack of project proposals to read through from my students. But at least they're short. I'll get to them.
- 14:20 @MonkeyPunchers I always see it when I'm going to school, but I've never gone in. How is it? #
- 18:03 @NathanFillion I'll indulge in large ammounts of geekery in celebration of my friend's 30th b-day tomorrow & my 29th on Mon. Feed the birds. #
- 02:13 @Adri Going to bed after agonizing about how I'd like to stay up and write, but deciding I'm terrible and everything sucks. LIKE A WRITER =D #
- Mood:
working
- 14:31 @melissaar I really wish I could. Enjoy your grandma time. #
- 23:13 @choochoobear Questionable Content seems like the obvious option. But something tells me it would all end badly for Hanners. #
- 17:13 @choochoobear Trying to find motivation to grade papers, but am goofing around on the Internet & watching Kung Fu Hustle instead. Not bad. #
Hero was pretty awesome today. She was wearing her Flash shirt (yay Target! She has flash, Superman, Justice League, and batman and robin shirts) with a cute flowered skirt. It is my compromise to letting people know she's actually a girl. She ran around the house with her hippo and a book for most of the day.
In crazy cat lady news, I failed at capturing the calico kitten on the back porch. Sunny, the friendly one who I really want to take in, wandered right into the carrier. Unfortunately, he is not going to the pound because I want to try and find him a home on my own first. So that was toally not useful. I can't bear the thought of him possibly being put down. So if anyone wants an adult male orange kitty who is already neutered and is a total love bug, let me know. He gets along great with Bentley and Puck whenever he manages to slip into the house. I think he'd prefer being an indoor/outdoor combo kitty. But who knows, maybe he could be presuaded to live a life of spoiled housecattery.
Also, I went to Denny's with mary Ann and Andrew, fully intending to work on the story that was due to Jean yesterday. But then I spent the whole time bitching about my students and coming up with strategies for dealing with them. Oops. Plus I have a mountain of grading to do this weekend. Yuck. I need to remember to buy a lotto ticket, because I don't think I want to do this forever.
- Mood:
awake
Hero walking and being a toddler and growing up is so awesome. If we decide we want another kid, we're adopting, and we'll be adopting a two year old or something. No more babies. They are cute, and have their own awesomeness, but I'm glad we're heading out of that. Possibly the best thing about Hero is that she is obsessed with books. When she doesn't want to go to sleep, we give her a book and tell her she doens't have to sleep but she has to stay in bed. We've been doing this since she was about nine months old. In the last seven months there has only been a couple of times where this hasn't worked. Mostly she will grab the book and sit there, turning pages until she does fall asleep. There is a near to overflowing toy bin in our office, but all she's interested in are her books. She will stop reading long enough to dance along with music on tv, but when the song is over she goes back to the book. Or chasing the cats. She loves the cats.
Oddly enough, in talking to my dad about her, I've found out stuff about me as a kid. I offered to bring over some latches for the cabinets, just to keep her out of the trashcan under the sink and he told me not to bother, because they didn't keep me out of anything and he doens't think she'd take too long to figure them out, either. Apparently, the day he tried putting outlet covers on when I was a toddler, I just followed him around pulling them off as he put them up. And he's right, she's been studying the cabinet latches. After seeing us work them a couple of times, she will have it figured out.
I think part of the reason I haven't really been posting anything is because I feel like the only thing I have to talk about is Hero. School is school and there's not much to talk about. Teaching would just devolve to me bitching. I don't even play much WoW anymore.
- 22:32 @TomatoNation People who know things about sports tell me the Vikings are playing the Packers. I assume this means something significant. #
