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I interrupt the ongoing blog silence

Posted in *sigh*, teaching on October 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

to bring you the quote of the month from my stack of grading:
Chinese philosophy is philosophy written in the Chinese tradition of thought. Chinese philosophy has been made to fit the many schools of thought and conditions in China.

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Yeah, I’m alive

Posted in *sigh* on July 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I can’t believe it’s almost the end of July already.  I honestly don’t know where the month went.  The zucchini plant is taking over the garden and we have itty-bitty carrots and almost-ready corn.  Knitting and crocheting have still been slow – not because of any issues from the carpal tunnel surgery but more becuase [...]

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At least we’re at the end of the semester

Posted in *sigh* on May 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The effectiveness of most of the training appears to be impactful.

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Better living through modern chemistry

Posted in *sigh*, chaosgirl, dissertation, family, send more chocolate, yarny stuff on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In case you all hadn’t noticed I’ve not posted here in a while.  There still isn’t anything really fun and interesting to post about. For those of you keeping score:
Dad
Hospice brought out a hospital bed last week as he is now too weak to move around much even with the walker. Yesterday he got a [...]

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Vocabulary

Posted in *sigh*, chaosgirl on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

So I pick ChaosGirl up from daycare yesterday and since it’s now OMGSUMMER I check to see if there is anything weather-appropriate in her bin where we are supposed to keep a change of clothes or two. What is in the bin = a pair of glover, a pair of mittens, a pair of socks, [...]

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This is why she has a published book

Posted in *sigh* on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Go read Crazy Aunt Purl -> Monday
She ’spains my feelings about gas/food/everything costs far better than I could.

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April Fool

Posted in *sigh* on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

and I did it to myself. I somehow managed to turn my alarm off in my sleep this morning. I also somehow did not hear the coffee maker start. I have the world’s. loudest. coffee. maker. Even from the far end of the dining room from the bedroom it is a [...]

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And I thought things would get better.

Posted in *sigh*, send more chocolate on February 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Silly me.
The good news is exams are written. 3,350 words in about 3 hours. Oral defense TBA sometime in late March.
The bad news is Tuesday night it rained. Then it rained some more.  We know there is a spot under the stairs in the basement that gets a bit damp.  The someone-threw-a-10-gallon-bucket-of-water-on-the-floor sort of damp.  [...]

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Ick

Posted in *sigh* on December 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Due to a bizarre set of circumstances I lost the weekend. Totally and completely.
Last week I went to the doctor for a small infection. The antibiotic doesn’t apparently play nice with the ibuprofen I was taking for pain and the steroid eye drops from the ophthalmologist for my weird eye thing. Therefore [...]

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“We have normality. I repeat — we have normality.

Posted in *sigh* on November 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Anything you still can’t cope with is, therefore, your own problem.” (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
On the way in to work this morning I was pondering an unbloggable issue and trying to remember when it really all started.  The closest I can come  was that it was sometime after ChaosGirl was born and around the [...]

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