A response for Mark….
Mark, I’ll see your blog post. I’m not going to raise because I don’t even know how I would do that.
I am back at work. I’m not thrilled about that, but that’s more because my workplace is in major flux right now. The knee is fine. Well, let me clarify fine: it’s getting better. I still have crutches. I still have a brace that keeps my leg from bending. I still get ow-y sometimes. Yet it’s getting better (it actually looks like a knee now) and I get myself around. I’m kinda tired of dealing with it though, and I bet those around me are too.
I did have a good break, but it was definitely busier than I had anticipated. My roomie and I cooked a full Thanksgiving dinner. It turned out fabulously, but man, that was some work (more for her though than for me). I also did some homework, of course. Can’t have a weekend without that. The funny thing is that I can’t remember a lot of what we did beyond that – must not have been that important, I guess. But I was busy. I wanted to make some chocolate stuffed figs on Wednesday, but I didn’t get them done until Saturday. I also never did get to sit down and watch all 8 episodes of Doctor Who that are sitting on my Tivo.
Consider Spellbound added to the list of movies I want to see once the semester ends, although you did tell me that Snakes on a Plane wasn’t scary. I spent a good chunk of that movie with my head buried in my boyfriend’s shoulder. I can’t imagine 5th graders and spelling bees being scary though. Wait, yes I can. Oh, I’ll keep the movie on the list anyway.
I’m so glad your tooth is doing better. Hooray for modern medicine!
I *did* qualify my “not scary” comments, though. On my behalf, I did. :) I did not say that absolutely no one would find it scary. [And I will not write that in FOL.]
The spelling bee situation is mostly anxiety; if it scares anyone then they were one of those harmed by the “event” back in 5th grade.
Sounds like you had a nice Thanksgiving; but yes, that kind of hosting takes work, and then there’s homework….
I needed some downtime, so it worked out that I was alone. Got a lot of (important) background thinking done while I watched a bunch of movies, some of them pretty mindless. At the end of the week I was in a much better situation in life, if only because I had been able to make some sense of some things. Nothing out in the world had changed.
Glad to hear your knee is recovering. My mom had some kneee surgery a while back and it rough on her.
Good luck with the rest of the semester! I’m off to the Blind Pig in a bit to meet some other GSLIS students, mostly started summer 2 or fall this year. I did a lot of house-related stuff today. So, I can leave beginning Marked Exercise 4 for tomorrow. ;)