HKF's new bedtime delaying tactic is "If you read me one more page of Harry Potter, I'll read one more page to you." Smart kid. Totally working.
Also, politicians are making me despair.
Also.2 - Erin that is wonderful news. Of course your place of work had to follow it up with sucking all your computers away, which sucks. You can totally make it through their deadline and get all the salary you have coming to you. I'm wondering how much of what you're going through is because the place you work seems like admin decisions are engineered by demons and folks who talk at the theater.
admin decisions are engineered by demons and folks who talk at the theater.
Hee! I have to admit, on my walk into the building most mornings, I'm mentally muttering "Welcome to the Hellmouth" to myself.
Well, my students are going to love me, because the computers going away means I am nixing the seniors powerpoint presentation that was going to follow their research paper. And once we are done with the novels (my dual credit students are LOVING The Poisonwood Bible, which makes me so happy), I am only going to do creative writing projects -- poems, essays and short stories.
I don't have to worry about curriculum, so I am going to teach some freakin' fun stuff, focus on descriptive writing, powerful words, actually playing with language -- and our Spring Break starts April 22, seniors graduate the 24th of May, final grades are due the 27th, and school lets out on the 3rd, so fuck it. The last week is no grades, just babysitting, so I am going to kick off the creative writing month by showing my students the film "Slam." With inspiration from bonny, I might incorporate mandalas into some of the writing, too.
Tep, i just spent a fruitless 20 minutes looking up solutions for labial wound healing, and google-fu is giving me no love. Saline rinse seems to be the only constant. I hope it heals SOON -- goolie pain is no joke.
Tep, i just spent a fruitless 20 minutes looking up solutions for labial wound healing, and google-fu is giving me no love. Saline rinse seems to be the only constant. I hope it heals SOON -- goolie pain is no joke.
After my last post, I went to check on it (using, seriously, a hand mirror and a headlamp, and no, Tim was not *wearing* the headlamp), and it looks much better than yesterday. For the past week it's been about the size of
a pencil eraser,
and today it was less than half that size. The only thing I did different was start the topical steroid last night. IIRC, Cass was the one who suggested a steroid cream, so: CASS FTW!!!!!
Completely unrelatedly, I just had a moment where I realized how fucking jaded I am. During Big Bang Theory (Amy Farrah Fowler RULZ), there was a commercial for CSI. Apparently Lady Heather is in this episode. The commercial made it seem like it's about kitty play (yes, people who dress like kitties -- not in a full suit like a furry would, but ears and a tail and a collar and sometimes paws...which might not seem like much of a distinction between kitty play and furries, but apparently they are 2 different camps).
My first thought, hand to god? "THAT'S not so weird...."
I can never see Lady Heather without thinking "Julie Cooper!" Because Julie Cooper ROCKS.
Amy Farrah Fowler RULZ
I love her.
Last week, with the liqeur on the ice cream, was awesome. ("We're going to a bar...because I *do* that now.")
Amy Farrah Fowler RULZ
Worth repeating!
My first thought, hand to god? "THAT'S not so weird...."
I don't watch CSI anymore, but I rarely thought the "weird" things on CSI were very weird.
The only thing I did different was start the topical steroid last night. IIRC, Cass was the one who suggested a steroid cream, so: CASS FTW!!!!!
I am the goolie whisperer, yo.
A saline soak might help the actual wound heal too if it needs more encouragement. So glad you are getting some relief.
epsom salts may work better than regular saline solution. Don't know medically, but from personal experience they hurt less and reduce inflamation better.
The sites I saw recced a weak saline solution or a sitz bath.
My husband and I just made out 1 year anniversary plansfor Saturday! We are going to Extra Virgin, a Michael Smith tapas bar that we've been to with friends once (the pork belly and chickpea frites were come-to-jesus delish) and it's supposed to hit a low of 71, so we have a reservation on the patio and are going to drinking fancy cocktails, eat yummy food and then walk around and check out galleries.
Fun!
Erin, how are you married for ONE YEAR already?!?
I don't watch CSI anymore, but I rarely thought the "weird" things on CSI were very weird.
I was afraid my weird-o-meter was broken. I mean, I *do* find stuff weird (::cough::Gor::cough::), but human kitties is farly tame. No pun intended.
