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  • 3/14

    I have a love/hate relationship with this time of year. I can see the faded green coming back in winter scorched tree bark….. ………. Grrrr… I love spring, okay. Spring is coming, but it hasn’t sprung just yet. It’s trying.   Starts of Easter Lillies are pushing up from the grown.   There’s green.   I see buds Read more

  • 3/9

    Today is the last day of the first week of the March semester. Geez, that sentence just looks weird, doesn’t it? The good thing is that I have a co-teacher to share my ENGL102 misery with.   102 is the next to lowest English class.   It generally involves a lot of hand-holding and really panicked students.  Read more

  • 3/4

    This is really kind of an odd day. I decided to stay in instead of sneaking out to the gym for four hours. I think it made mom happy.  I tend to never ever ever spend a full day at home  … which is a sever change in my personality that was brought about by Read more

  • 3/2

    Yeah, okay, I’m a sucker. I accepted that guy’s super late and ‘hey you’ email.  It didn’t change the outcome so I didn’t have to bother with a change-o-grade form.  But, it’s done and graded.   I’m hoping that he’ll learn a non-existant lesson to be more considerate to adjuncts in the future, but who am Read more

  • 2/28 – Part two

    ..   I really don’t have anything to do right now, so I thought I’d just sit here and type. –  I need to write more and this is apart of it. So, How to Train Your Dragon was kind of meh.   I didn’t see the second one and saw the first one when it first Read more

  • 2/28

    I’m feeling better now, thank you. Although I still have a simmering sensation in my throat, I’m definitely above craptastic.  That’s a perk. Class ended as well. Do you remember how you would stress out about finals when you were in school? You’d worry, maybe become anxious, and stress?   Well, that’s how it is for Read more

  • 2/20

    As predicted, I managed the morning snow and slush to make it to the cancer doctor. Everything checked out fine. They did just about everything but pat me on the head and give me a lollipop, which is okay.    The girl who checks me out – Samantha – knows the whole experience is pretty Read more

  • 2/19

    Okay, so hi there. I’m feeling better. Didn’t wake up with Athena splitting brain cells this morning. The throat doesn’t feel like it’s completely made out of molten lava.   I was able to tame it enough to down some soggy cereal — because Honey Graham corners are just to sharp right now. Better.  Better and Read more

  • 2/17

    Day ??? of feeling like crap weakly warmed over. But.. this day is a little different. This day comes with a couple of cold sores and a fairly numbed grading brain. —  I suppose fever sores would be more accurate.   Mom said I used to get them when I had a bad fever. I was Read more

  • 2/16

    Well, I still pretty much feel like crap on a crap shingle. Yesterday was particularly rough. By about nine p.m, I was shivering and sweating buckets.  I wasn’t really sleeping, but more unconscious.  When I woke, which was frequently, it was to drink what felt like a liter of water, soda, tea… just anything I Read more