Oh... the temptation to take out the +100 Red Pen of Editing on just that snippet of email is soooooooo strong.

DH was adamant with Owen but I was surprised how quickly he folded when Liv crawled into our bed. It's funny how having a king sized bed can change your mind. Especially when the kids only seem to crawl in on MY side of it.

I sympathize with the sleep issues. There really isn't a hard and fast rule--the only rule is doing whatever you have to do to achieve some sort of rest and equalibrium.

In other kid news, Liv just explained to me that iguanas poop seeds out.

Thank you, Diego.

Oh... the temptation to take out the +100 Red Pen of Editing on just that snippet of email is soooooooo strong.

Uh huh. Also, elsewhere in the email, he opened a parenthetical comment and then didn't close it.

Oh, and no explanation for why he didn't show up for the meeting last night. Our scheduled meeting time is 5:15 or 5:30, since he teaches a class that ends at 5 and comes by my office whenever he gets back to the department. I waited until 5:45 and knocked on his office door several times. Then I sent him an email, and then I left. On my way out, I ran into another grad student and told him why I was there so late. Today, that grad student told me that he'd seen my advisor in the department last night after I left. So now I'm really confused.

Oh... the temptation to take out the +100 Red Pen of Editing on just that snippet of email is soooooooo strong.

Oh my, yes. Or the Croquet Mallet of Editorial Retribution, but that's just me.

I have no advice on kids and sleep since I don't have the former and I suck at the latter.

I am making Trader Joe's Pumpkin Bread, just because. I have never had it before, but it smells delicious.

And I tried to post my paper to arxiv, but it turns out that first-time posters need someone who's posted at least four papers in the past five years and at least three months ago to OK them before they're allowed to post. I checked every person in the math faculty at my university, and while just about everybody has posted some papers, there's only one who has posted enough in the right time frame to be an endorser, and he's on sabbatical.

My Dutch SiL grew up in a family of 7 kids who grew up in a small townhouse right on the harbor in The Hague. The 4 boys had one bedroom, the 3 girls the other, and the parents slept on a fold-out couch in the living room.

Thanks much for the ~ma. Hubby's doing well, but they're keeping him for another couple of hours to make sure he's getting proper respiration. I think we'd be home by now, but there were various delays all over the place. He'll be on oxygen at home for a few days because of swelling issues up in the sinus cavities, but the doc says he should be fine.

Many hugs to the Buffistas.

Yay, Connie! I'm glad everything went well. Much recovery~ma to your DH!

When I was talking about all this to one of my friends in the department this morning, she told me, "Calm down! You're so nervous you're going to have a heart attack!" She also said that her advisor has never said anything about her writing, since neither of them are native English speakers. (Her English is pretty good. Her advisor's English is atrocious. I have no idea who edits his papers, but his published papers are all written pretty clearly, while emails from him pretty much look like he just threw a bunch of words up in the air and let them land wherever they landed, and then randomly changed all the verb tenses around.)