Grouchity Grouch Grouch Grouch
Why is it the most important things that I must have and simply can’t lose are always the things that disappear? I can hang on to receipts for Panera for three years, yet the piece of paper that has all my work hours written on it just disappears into the ether. What am I supposed to do? Just make it up? I think not. Someone would get screwed and it would probably be me. I wouldn’t want to appear to be taking advantage so I’d short myself. Bah. It better turn up tomorrow or I’m going to be enraged. I’m already enraged. I don’t know who to direct my rage towards. Is it me, the obvious irresponsible one? Is it Mike, the cleaner of the family? Did he throw it away in a fit of housekeeping goodness? Did I stick it somewhere stupid? It’s probably me, but that doesn’t stop me from being any less prickly. I would really like to kill someone, but I don’t want a dead husband. Mike’s too sweet to murder for a possible, but not likely, transgression against my slobbiness.
We’re having a rough time adjusting to the time zone. Last night we followed Erik’s nightly routine and had him down at a decent hour. He hardly whimpered. It was amazing.
Then we walked in the room and smelled the poo.
The little turd pooped before going to sleep!
It was inevitable that he would wake up during the diaper change, but you can’t just leave a baby with a poopy butt all night. He probably had a poopy butt for twenty minutes and the skin was already getting red and irritated. His little power nap did him a world of good (or evil) and he was wide awake and ready to play until half past midnight.
Aren’t you glad I’m a mommy blogger? Ugh. I hate those two words.
At least my job is interesting even if I can’t find my time sheet. For parts of the test I have to find audio or video clips that the students will listen to and demonstrate listening skills. I’ve been watching all sorts of lectures the past couple of weeks and can feel my brain expanding. Most of the universities require a student password to access the lectures but a few of them have a lot of classes and special guest speaker events up for the general population. I wonder how the universities get the students to actually go to class, especially morning classes, if the students can just hop on the computer and watch the lecture at their leisure. I can’t believe how much life has changed in the past 10 years. Such a thing wasn’t even on the radar when I was in college.
I hit the gym today and I have a feeling I am going to be s-o-r-e tomorrow. It’s been two weeks since I did weights and even longer for cardio (thanks to my bum knee). I normally love going to the gym but had a hard time working up any motivation for it today. I look in the mirror and can hardly tell any difference between my “going to the gym” body and my “lazy, fat slob” body. You’d think after six months of pretty intense work I’d have lost more than half a size. I could get into some serious self-loathing issues right now but I guess I’ll spare you the details. You’ve read them all before.
Guess I better brush my teeth and get to bed. I think I need a giant sleeping pill so I can stop stewing over the missing time sheet.
February 19th, 2007 at 9:13 pm
Most students would not be mature enough to attend class if they could have a web lecture or a podcast. (Many would then not be mature enough to follow up by actually listening to the lecture, but that’s another matter).
Truth is I think you would learn better by going to class. The prof. can see when you don’t get it and provide better explanations of that part. But education is the one place where people are happier when they get less than they pay for.