...the alien egg is gone ( Read more... )

Since I'm choosing to go without cable for a while (*coughsoexpensivecough*) and my internet isn't installed yet (tomorrow night, thank goodness!) I've begun watching my Three's Company DVDs. I hadn't even opened the cases in at least two or three years -- I'd seen the episodes so many times that it had ceased being fun to watch them, and over ( Read more... )

New Faculty Orientation was yesterday and today. I am exhausted ( Read more... )

Spent my first night at the new place last night. No matter how much I unpack, it doesn't ever look like I've done anything.

I still haven't contacted the internet people about internet yet (I'm at my parents' house for Top Chef tonight ^__^). I should do that tomorrow or something. Probably won't get to it 'til Friday afternoon ( Read more... )

While filling out medical paperwork, I realized that today's date is 8/9/10. Haha ( Read more... )

Welp, this pretty much sums things up. I really do hope the school makes it through this crap and can rebuild...

it is august seventh, which means it is my parents' anniversary. their twenty-eighth. huzzah and congrats! :)

we (my brothers, sister-in-law, and i) purchased them a combination blu ray and vhs player. so it plays tapes and dvds and blu rays -- pretty much anything my parents've got. some of us watched (or fell asleep to) the lion king ( Read more... )

My computer's been acting more sluggish than usual, likely due to the humidity and my desire to use it. Hence a while without updates.

I've also been busy maintaining the house for the 'rents while they were in Virginia to greet Lukie home as he got off his boat ship ( Read more... )

LENNIE has decided that every morning between 4:00 and 4:30 he is supposed to sit by my head and meow in a slow and steady pace. Meow....Meow....Meow....Meow... If I don't respond, he leaps on my feet as if they are a creature about to escape and he deftly wrestles them to death. "Lennie," I call out, sleepless and irritated and now with my feet ( Read more... )

According to this morning's paper (or it might have been yesterday's -- I read articles from both days this morning), 40% of students entering college (nationally) are placed into remedial courses for English or math. Forty. Percent. That's HUGE ( Read more... )