Oh Allyson! There is nothing worse than being really sick and not having someone around to mother you. I hope you feel better soon.

Burrell, do you find that music is important while you grade? I've been through Melissa Etheridge, The Who, and now the Chicago soundtrack. It seems to be helping me focus.

Oy, Kristin, those sound unfun. I'm grading research papers, so some of them are fantastic and others are, well, um, not research papers.

Allyson, don't try to do all that housework when you feel like ass. Just settle in with some ginger ale and some tylenol, and maybe some chicken soup.

Burrell, do you find that music is important while you grade?

Actually, I can't listen to anything when I grade. I'm way too distractable. Listening to my daughter coughing is really slowing me down. (Okay, as is being here. meep.)

Oh gods. Don't say the "r" word. I've put off doing those with my juniors until now because the process is so painful. Keep in mind that these are largely students who never plan to go to college and really don't have much investment in learning to write them at all, let alone the right way.

ETA: Right. Getting back to work now.

Oh, don't worry. He already does, as do Julia and Ben, for that matter.

Surround sound.

How was your Easter? Did you see your pet member of the Evil Triumverate?

Easter was uneventful. I was sick and spent most of it in bed. I saw Narrator!Niece a few weeks earlier, at her brother's confirmation. She thought that the bishop looked "pretty" in his red robe and miter.

Hee!

I'm watching Queer Eye in a Texas frathouse, and this is the funniest/cutest shit I've ever seen. Cutehead frat boys. They just needed a little direction!

Easter was uneventful

Did you have an Easter pig?

I found a box of that dehydrated noodle soup. My mom sent a care package with it awhile back. I know how gross it sounds, but when I'm sick for some reason it always seems to settle my stomach.

It is great sick food. Just as long as you never eat it when you're well. I think it might have the reverse effect then.

Did you have an Easter pig?

Part of one -- ham. Also shrimp. It was a whole non-kosher meal.

I found a box of that dehydrated noodle soup. My mom sent a care package with it awhile back. I know how gross it sounds, but when I'm sick for some reason it always seems to settle my stomach.

I had a bad cold, so no stomache upset for me. But yea, I like the dehydrated noodle soup (and saltines and 7-Up) when I'm not feeling well. I always flashback to my childhood, because my mom gave us that. It's a sick adult's comfort food.

OMG, My Cat Annie is hilarious! My crazy cats do "cute" things like howl under the cupboard door they can't reach but which doesn't close properly, torturing the poor things. No retrieving mice and playing with live cockroaches. To be fair, I have no mice or live cockroaches for them to play with, and I intend to keep it that way.

I want me a young cute man with a funny cat.