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On teaching a class
I am sitting AT THIS VERY MOMENT in my class. My students are taking their first exam, and they look a little freaked out. There is frantic flipping through the text (it's open book) and head rubbing. I never realized how stressful it is to sit on the other side of this. Is the test too easy? Too hard? Fair? Are questions comprehensible? Oh ( Read more... ) -
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We're getting a new kitchen! Right now, though, we have a giant litter box. Oh, and there was concrete poured in three small places. And the contractor spelled out O-let's name! And S put O-let footprints into it. And made a little *I <3 K* symbol. So sweet that all of this will be permanently in the foundation of our house ( Read more... ) -
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So, hello world! I knew that I got reallly bad about posting when life got stressful. Now I know that is absolutely true. I am going to try to post a bit more. So to jumpstart things, here's something nice and light ( Read more... ) -
Dissertation update
_Oh_ _My_ _God_ ( Read more... ) -
33 weeks...
So today I realized that it's becoming a little difficult to do some things. Like turning around in the car to check blind spots. Or getting into a bathtub. And then I looked at my belly in the mirror and I understand why... things are growing!!! Check this out, my belly looks like a giant bubblegum bubble! And my belly button is weird -- ( Read more... ) -
Green couch, green couch!
So, it took a lot of work, but we managed to find the TWO places in the entire state of North Carolina who will sell us the exact couch we bought back in September. One is apparently a coffee shop. The other is a tiny store about 45 minutes from us. We drove out to the store this afternoon, and they confirmed that they could order the same couch ( Read more... ) -
A little story about a sad little Greencaped_k.
Unfreaking believable ( Read more... ) -
DOH!
One week ago I learned that my grant extension was approved, and I had moolah to go to a TB conference in Paris ( Read more... ) -
And the pathology report says...
So, I am a bit surprised to report that my story has yet another twist. I just received a call from the gynecologic oncologist who did my surgery with results from the full pathology report. Turns out it wasn't a dermoid cyst after all. Rather, it is what it looked like on ultrasound -- a low-malignant potential tumor. The doc assures me that ( Read more... ) -
Update
One glass down, 16 (a guess) more to go. Oh god.