Holy shit, I have gotten my exercise in today, mental and physical.

Wrote 734 words for blog post, read All The Emails, made brownies, did load of wash, power-cleaned entire downstairs, moved all dead plant planters off front porch.

Friend coming over at 3:30. It's 2:05 -- now for shower, quick run to wine store and folding/putting away laundry, including placing out fresh guest towel, throw rugs and table runners & throwing a clean tablecloth on dining room table.

(I washed the tablecloth a couple of days ago, but knew if I actually put it on the DR table, it would be covered with cat hair and/or possible hairball by now.)

Looking FORWARD to that glass -- or 5 -- of wine!

Oops.

A friend of mine just posted a "OMG Michele Bachman wrong on vaccines" thing, and one of his friends posted a comment in response about "thimsal" and the harmful side effects of the vaccines, etc.

I posted that it's thimerosal, and that there isn't any in the HPV vaccine (at least, not in Gardasil, I didn't check the other one).

...then I realized it was not the friend I thought, posting, it's someone else (whose name is similar, when skimming, and who is normally much less likely to post political rants). And the much less close friend, I don't feel comfortable calling people out in her FB comments. Oops.

Well, the day's drawing to a close here. I hope everyone has this much fun this weekend.

eta: warning! loud music!

That put a smile on my face Todd. Thanks.

::SNORT:: Dunno about that much fun, but I am competing for the second time this weekend. Small local gig that's just half a step above a studio showcase, but it's good practice because come early November, I'm going to be doing this:

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(Warning: cheesy music/video alert)

Barb, I watched some of the video - is that Mary from SYTYCD drinking champagne?

Yeah, Todd- she's one of the competition organizers.

Have fun, Barb, and break a leg! (I think the superstition is the same for all live performances?!)

Had GREAT time connecting with friend my my study abroad London days...and she intro'd us to the crack that is TJ's chocolate covered almonds with sea salt! YUM, OMG.

She also brought over a couple of bottles of wine to toast my opening of my freelancing biz, so I am a little buzzed. Wearing a sweater, and red wine and chocolate buzz -- YAY!

erika, I got your email, and I will respond tomorrow when I have not had a few glasses of wine. But yes!

I'm sleepy. And I'm sick. But I also seem to be getting better at Stern Teacher Voice. Today, at the beginning of class, I had a talk with my students about how I'm seeing way too many algebra errors on their papers. Basic point of the talk was, "You should have learned this in high school. If your high school didn't teach it to you, then that's not your fault, but it is now your responsibility to learn it, because you need to know these topics in order to learn calculus." And people were nodding and asking where they could find help. And at the end of class, there were a few extra minutes, so I gave them a problem to do using the algebra skills that I'd told them they needed to practice, and most of them didn't finish the problem by the time the class was over, but even after I dismissed the class, most of them stayed to finish the problem and discuss their solutions with me.

Hil, that sounds like a major breakthrough. Good on you!