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I know it’s been quiet around here.  Every time I try to write something that doesn’t involve yarn or food it gets too depressing to post.  I start whining and when I re-read it I just can’t subject you all to it.
A good chunk of it is Dad, of course.
Another chunk of it is turning [...]

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So much to do – so little time

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve said that before. But really I’m not sure I’m going to make it here. I am supposed to write the last bit of my exams in two. weeks. people!
I had yesterday off but I came in to the office anyway and spent a good 5 hours working on this [...]

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The List Update

I have marked two things off the “11 in 101″ list on the side bar.
I went to the ophthalmologist’s office today (to see an optometrist this time) to be fitted for contact lenses. He took one look at my eyes, which spent a month and a half on the extra strength steroid eye drops, [...]

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Smallish Monday Whine

I hate it when I lose the key to an assignment. Now I have to do it myself and that’s way to much like work. Especially since I then have a stack of assignments to grade with the key once I recreate it.

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Stuff and Things

Fall semester starts too soon. The hunt for the ever elusive parking space will begin in earnest. I should get up an hour earlier to get a parking space but I won’t. I’ll walk from the back 40 and grumble.

People who get selected to submit papers for conference proceedings should be able to submit [...]

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Ow…ow…ow

The Summer of Sweaters has stalled with the heat and it’s become the Summer of Sickness. Between my wisdom teeth, StripeyCat’s crystals, my strep x2, DH’s strep, and a weird bug bite/infected scrape thing on ChaosGirl’s ankle you’d think we’d be done.
Nope.
My doc has been bugging me to get a mole on the bottom [...]

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Random bullets of Typhoid ChaosGirl

Now DH has strep.

My throat is sore again but not so bad. I’m ignoring it in hopes it will go away.

My doctor wants to biopsy a mole on the bottom of my foot.  The bottom. of. my. foot. people.  That sounds incredibly obnoxious, annoying, painful, and also most likely expensive.  I’m ignoring that too [...]

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Random bullets of wtf?

I sent an overview of the latest conceptualization of the diss/quals questions to my advisor two weeks ago tomorrow.  She was at a conference last week but said she would be on email. I finally get a note this past Monday saying she’ll look at it Tuesday and get back to me. It’s Thursday and [...]

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I hate pollen

I used to only have fall allergies and those had been annoying me less as the years passed. Now, all of a sudden I have spring allergies. What’s up with that? I couldn’t stop sneezing all day yesterday and now I’m all doped up on antihistamines.
On the anti-whine front, a lovely box of [...]

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Distractions

I know there has been a distinct lack of anything interesting here lately. I would put it down to the end of semester insanity but I’m done teaching for the semester and I’m not taking anything that requires actual work. So what have I been up to?
I have been doing a decent amount of [...]

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