it's been awhile

haven't posted in awhile, it's been a pretty crazy week. it's midterms, and my students are fried, and i'm fried, and everyone needs a week off. but no, instead papers are due and papers need to be graded and blah blah blah. oh well, i'm just tired and mildly cranky. i also got a bit stressed out because next week i start teaching a 3 week section of this intro to english studies course. my 3 weeks are on professional writing and visual rhetoric. should be ok, patty gave me a lot of materials from the time she did it, but it's just one more prep for 3 weeks. we'll see how it goes. i'm just tired i think, need a vacation. looking forward to thanksgiving.

so jeff started his new job today. hard to tell on the 1st day, but he liked it as much as he could so far. spent time getting things set up, etc. he's working at the coop also, so he's a busy beaver. as of nov 1 his coop hours will be much less though, so that will help. for now what really stinks is he works saturdays. but this has been ok as i've hada lot of work to do, so i can work on saturdays.

so a few things showed up in the mail last week, i thought i'd share:

that thing on the left looks better close up:


hoorah! bound dissertation and diploma, both in the same week!

ok, on another note, some folks wanted to see pics of our place inside so here you go.

this is the living area and our new tv stand. not much on the walls yet, we're lazy.

i spun around from where i was standing and took this pic, our dining room i guess, but we only have 2 chairs right now


kitchen view 1

kitchen view 2


did anyone just see the bears come back and win that game? holy wah! ok then, gotta run.