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annoyed
Last week, I had a tonsil infection and was sick most of the week with a sore throat.
This week, I have a cold and am so very, very stuffy.
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So, I had a baby yesterday!
I am too exhausted and overwhelmed to go into details. (I will later because I need to process my birth experience a little). But! Keith and I now have a beautiful, tiny daughter named Hannah. She is doing well despite being early (I would be 34 weeks today and 37-40 is full-term) and I'm recovering from my emergency c-section. Keith has been ( Read more... ) -
Surprise!
Guess which is more expensive: one year of daycare or one year of graduate school tuition at a top-20 university?
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My neighbor to the north
I was raised mostly in Wisconsin (ages 4-18) and went to college in Madison (18-23). I am sure that I'll move back there someday. My grandmother, one of my aunts, and one of my cousins are all members of the teachers' union there. They are all dedicated, hardworking women who have a passion for what they do. All of them are solidly middle class by ( Read more... ) -
Super Bowl Sunday
I have been watching football since before I can remember. My grandfather is in the Wisconsin High School Coaches Hall of Fame, for both football and basketball, and I am sure that I was attending his football games before I could walk. My father's family have been Packers fans for generations, like any other typical Wisconsin family, and I'm ( Read more... ) -
procrastinating
I really should be catching up on reading for school, but I'm just not feeling it. As you've probably heard from everywhere, Chicago got hit by its third-worst blizzard in modern history (although my grandmother tells me this is worse than '67 because of the wind) so we were sent home from work at 2 p.m. yesterday and told not to come in today. And ( Read more... ) -
wow
You know what doesn't fuck around? N'oreasters. We got into New York late afternoon yesterday and met our friend Rob for a yummy Indian dinner then went to his place in Flatiron. It was slushy and not fun, but not, like, snowpocalypse now. When we left Rob's at 11, it was the absolute most horrible snowstorm I've ever witnessed. I live in Chicago ( Read more... ) -
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So my flight tomorrow, accidentally scheduled for 6:30 p.m., was rescheduled for the 11:10 a.m. I wanted to be on. Apparently there's weather coming to NYC but I am hoping that it waits until late afternoon like it's promising to do. I packed, mostly, but there are a few things I can't throw in until tomorrow morning. I hope everything goes ( Read more... ) -
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I've been back in school for one week, and I've already earned a "++" on one of my assignments. Keith joked to one of our friends that I've been too busy overachieving to see any movies, and I'm starting to think he wasn't joking. (Side note: holy crap I have a lot of reading to do this semester. I'm taking Introduction to Organization, which is ( Read more... ) -
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I keep writing posts in my head about being pregnant and all the attendant anxieties/joys that this development has caused me, but then I get sidetracked by real life. It'll happen someday. In the meantime, here's a list of things that I want pretty much 100% of my waking hours these days ( Read more... )