1)  When a doctor says that a shot of local anesthesia is going to be "extremely painful" do not allow him to convince you that cutting you open with a scalpel will be less painful than the shot of local ( Read more... )

Today I am sick ( Read more... )

I'm blogging live from a much deserved vacation in the greater DC metropolitian area.  Lydia's house is an excellent place to get my thoughts in line for next semester.  I really miss having a cohesive family who sits around watching television together in all their mid-atlantic splendor, and being here is making me feel really refocused and ready ( Read more... )

There was a segment on "Morning Edition" on Thursday that featured letters written to Obama from Navajo school kids in Tuba City, Arizona.  There was one in particular that's been reverberating in my head every since I first heard it:

Dear Mr. Obama,

My name is Christopher Tinajero. I live in a brick house. All my family needs is food. Whenever I get ( Read more... )

Today it is cold outside.  It is supposed to be a high of 9 degrees (at the moment it is -12).  I know that to you readers in the Midwest, this is the kind of day when you would go outside in a tank top and booty shorts eating ice cream and frying eggs on the sidewalk.  However, here, 9 degrees is pretty cold ( Read more... )

So it turns out that I am in fact "coming down with something."  I now have three canker sores exploding in my mouth, which is generally what happens when I get sick.  They are causing my face to be so swollen that it's hard to chew things or talk.  Also my lips are so chapped that I can barely move them.

Moving down- my throat hurts like hell and ( Read more... )

I think I've finally perfected my multi-step "getting ready to go outside" technique:

( The steps )

Kid-I-Babysit James has a new book all about dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.  If any of you ever need to buy a dinosaur book for a child, ask me to talk to James for recommendations.  Every week, the kid has another dinosaur book I've never seen before.  He's got everything ever printed about dinosaurs ( Read more... )

So let's see, since I last updated I went to my mom's house, went to Kentucky, came back to my Mom's house, went to Tyler's house, and now I'm back up at school.  Currently I've gotten no work done, but I'm feeling really content because the fridge is full of food (woot communal fooding during Jan Term!) and there's just enough people living here ( Read more... )

And fifteen of them have been spent asleep.  This is a pattern I would not be averse to keeping up.