Hey Tep, I am pulling for October 4th to be completely free of trauma for you guys. (and for the rest of us!!)

bonny! You would have been soooo proud of Frankie last night! His bestie boxer pal Roscoe was over last night and Roscoe's mommy and I were eating dinner. I put Frankie in "place" on his bed, but Roscoe was clambering all over the couch where we sat, and then trying desperately to provoke Frankie into playing. Frankie didn't BUDGE.

...well, until I made the mistake of petting Roscoe. Jealous butt. So I put him back in "place" and he stayed. But given that he's never had to keep "place" with another doggie provoking him, I was very impressed he stayed there for 15 minutes, despite extreme temptation. I praised the heck out of him and gave him a treat.

My students have a midterm today, and they're stressing out, and their stress is making me stress out. I've got to figure out how to calm myself down so that my stress doesn't add to their stress and keep circling like that.

Heh, Nora. Actual Non-Dream Matilda and I just had an interesting conversation on the couch -- she had a secret to tell me, which turned out to be that she was watching Wall*E with her head (on further questioning, turns out this means she dreamed about Wall*E) -- that the big Wall*E's on the Axiom were his mommy and daddy and they were squashing him because he wouldn't eat his dinner. They were teenagers and he was a baby. So that's why they were punishing him.

Now she's nestled on the couch watching the real Wall*E movie and coloring in her Dora coloring book. But if you want to come over and crash on the couch, she'll be happy to scoot over and make room for you.

she'll be happy to scoot over and make room for you.

I sure hope I can take you up on this someday soon.

(I miss San Francisco)

Frankie didn't BUDGE.

That's ma boy!!

Frankie is, indeed, praise worthy. Friends, food, hyper energy...that's a LOT of temptation.

Give him a smooch for me.

Weird! We are hiring a few positions right now, and someone showed up saying she got a call the week before last (I didn't start calling people till last week) and who doesn't even live in New Orleans (the position sort of strongly suggests that one does.)

Could this be some crazy ass way to get an interview in today's job market??? My boss is talking to her now, she drove all the way in from Baton Rouge.

Sorry about the flooding, Sparky. I think we're going to be putting in Pergo ourselves, basically a snap-tite floor, and it's supposed to look nice and be easy.

Sox, it occurs to me that you are living classic stress dreams in real life. You sat for a math test after not having been to math class for like 10 years, then your teeth fell out (OK, one crown).

Please don't really drive from the back seat of the car.

October 4, the day that shall live in history as the Day When Nothing Happened.

Other than previously scheduled astronomical effects and planetary movements, along with typically performed activities of a monetarily or socially beneficial nature.

Edit: I really should have gone into advertising. Or law. I can summon up long, jargonish sentences on a whim.

I would very much like for nothing to happen today, as I was up at 4:30 this morning changing a wet bed and am now running purely on caffeine and fumes. (Thank the flying spaghetti monster for saddle-style mattress pads - total time to change both kid and bed took about 6 minutes. Still more than enough of an interruption to bring on the gronk.)