Much calm to you, Anne. Be good to yourself.
Cash and vw, I'm so sorry to hear that news. Fuck cancer indeed.
On less major but still pathetic news, I've been sitting in my car outside my house for almost ten minutes now because I am so dreading the school and house work that lies before me. Lame.
Anne, what can I do to help settle your thoughts?
Right now, knowing that there are people who care about how I'm doing means a LOT.
vw, I am so sorry about your friend. Cancer does, indeed suck.
Suzi, continued ~ma to your mom.
{{{Anne}}} All sorts of soothing, calm thoughts and ~ma headed your way.
{{{Sean}}}
{{{Suzi}}}
{{{vw}}}
{{{Cashmere}}}
Seriously, this year needs to back off buffistas and those they care about.
Anne, I'm sorry you are having a tough time. I'm so glad that you reached out to us for help. {{Anne}}
I'll keep people posted on how things are going. I finally had to sit down and admit to myself how bad things have been of late.
Thanks for the good thoughts, all
~ma to all.
I just submitted an abstract to give a talk at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in January. Eek.
Anne, add me to the list of people thinking good thoughts for you. Anything I can do, I am more than happy to.
Cash and VW, I'm sorry. Eff it, indeed.
Sean, you're in my thoughts.
Vortex, you are in my thoughts, as well.
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I totally appreciate that! Today I had my English 3 students tell me that they shouldn't have to learn vocabulary because they will never have to use words like embellish, connotation, affluent, banter, novice, brevity, imbibe, nostalgic, stipend or reiterate.
(I know that this is not news to anyone, I just feel the need to be all up their grills... or something. Long damn day.) They are wrong. Those are all perfectly serviceable words that they need to learn how to use. Well, maybe except for imbibe. If I had to chuck one, that would be it. But the rest? Perfectly modern and normal vocabulary, which, frankly, by English 3 they should know already, so they just need to QUIT THEIR BITCHIN'.
My friend who moved to Cairo started a blog. Interesting stuff. She said that they got falafel for dinner, and her two older kids both started crying because it was "too spicy." I'm a bit confused by this, since I've seen one of these kids eat pickled jalapenos.