My husband is a TA for a basic world history course. He holds office hours to answer questions, and he has to complete some tasks in assistance to the instructor of record. One of his tasks is grading 140 10-page papers! Written by mostly freshmen, to top it all off. He didn't get to make the assignment, but he has to grade them, as well as ( Read more... )

I just found out I'm having guests from Texas on Wednesday. The house is a wreck and I have to find time to clean it. Ack! It just happens I have rehearsals tonight and Tuesday night. I've gotten permission to leave work early one day this week to attack the mess ( Read more... )

I know you guys have been waiting with bated breath to find out more about my Thanksgiving feast at work. Well, content yourselves with knowing that my candied sweet potatoes were much appreciated. My dish was completely cleaned out before the whole line of diners passed by the table groaning with lovely food AND I had two requests for the recipe ( Read more... )

I remember as a kid seeing this local newscaster (sports, I think) named Scott Atwell. I always thought he was cute. Well, he has been working for the university since I've been here and he is carving the turkey today! Well, ONE of the turkeys - there are several. I still feel like he's a celebrity, even though it has been many years since he ( Read more... )

Today is the Thanksgiving feast for my building. The woman who organizes it told me that although attendance will be down this year, she expects about 130 people to attend. Everyone in the building (one exception being my coworker who is a Jehovah's witness and therefore does not celebrate Thanksgiving) converges into a conference room right in ( Read more... )

Next Thursday is Thanksgiving. If the weather is appropriate for it, my family eats outside on Thanksgiving. It looks like we will be doing just that this year, and I may even wear shorts. The high temp on Thursday is 78F/25.5C. I am choosing to think of that as a good thing. Part of me wants to whine that it's too warm for November, but if I ( Read more... )

The neighbors appear to be away from home, but they left their dog at home. As a result, the dog kept me up last night barking and then woke me up AN HOUR EARLY barking. They are definitely getting a note on their door.

YOU DO NOT STEAL SLEEP FROM EVITA AND GET AWAY WITH IT!!!!

I took myself to Target shopping last night. I found the movie Love Actually for $6.50 so I snapped it up. However, when I got home I saw that it was full screen. D'oh! No full screen movies for me. I had forgotten to buy OJ for my sick husband when I was out, so I went back to Target to switch it out and, horror of horrors, they only sell the ( Read more... )

Friday morning when I got to work at 8am, the temperature was 35F/1.7F. Tomorrow it is supposed to get up to 82F/27C. WTF???? It's the middle of November!!!! I know I'm in Florida, but this is a bit ridiculous!!!!

We now return to your regularly scheduled friends list.

I got to hold my nephew for the first time on Wednesday evening. He's so tiny!!! He was less than 4.5 pounds. So tiny. He's doing well, though. He was really hungry when I was there, even though he had just eaten. He even tried to get some food from me, if you know what I mean. Ha ha. I'm afraid there's no food there ( Read more... )