Things are looking up!
Well first off, I found a new service provider on Friday who pretty much fixed what the old one had wrecked. Yay! So needless to say my spirits were much higher by our Saturday anniversary night when Chapin got home from work. I made him his favorite dinner and we had strawberries and cream on angel food cake for dessert. I put Pumpkinhead to bed and then Chapin and I had a little alone time before he crashed at 10 p.m. (looonnngg day at work!). Today we went to see Ratatouille with Pumpkinhead and had a great time (it was funny!).
I also picked up my MacBook from Apple’s Genius Bar (it kept telling me to restart and it’s one of the newer generation so the old patch reported online wouldn’t fix it) and spent 20 minutes speed-shopping at Talbots. For those of you who have kids, you know the phenomenon. When you get an hour free to run errands without them, you learn to do things fast!! I think I tried on 30 pieces of clothing in 15 minutes. 
Fortunately/unfortunately many of them fit and looked great so I went a little spending crazy. It’s their bi-annual sale and I typically hate to shop so it was get-the-good-stuff–in-several-colors time. I drove to the mall, shopped at Talbot’s, picked up my MacBook in the middle of the iPhone rush at the Apple store and still made it home in 70 minutes!! Now I’m up in my office studying and ready for another week of school.
I’ve been very fortunate so far. Even though I had to miss one of each of my classes, a good handful of classmates e-mailed me to a) inquire about my well-being and b) send me their notes. I felt so lucky! I also realized that many of them are taking notes on every thing the professor says while mine are more sparse because I typically just fill in my outline/case briefs and perhaps take a half-page of notes on random things to slot into my outline later. There are pluses/minuses to both approaches but it doesn’t make me the best candidate to reciprocate the favor, for which I feel a bit bad. One of the classmates who e-mailed me his notes asked me to send him mine for one day a few weeks back and I ended up having to spend a good 45 minutes filling in info from my outline and brief notes to make them more complete.
July 1st, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Thanks for the comment. I responded in my comments, but wanted to check out your blog as well. The similarities are uncanny! Liberal (check), proud Episcopalian (check), feminist (check), pro-immigrant (check), pro-choice (almost check, long discussion on why not a whole check), anti-Bush (check), military supporter (check), anti-war (check), all about social justice. (check) Uncanny, now all I need is a kid and we’d be twins!
July 2nd, 2007 at 6:12 am
Thanks! Well I’m pro-choice in the sense that I want women to *have* a choice. I wouldn’t do it myself and don’t necessarily agree with it except in certain cases but I don’t think anyone has a right to a) tell me what to do with my body or b) interfere in my personal relationship with God. If someone thinks it’s immoral to abort a child, she probably won’t have one. She doesn’t need the government telling her she can’t. Besides, I can’t imagine how painfully difficult that decision would be but I know there are women out there who make that hard choice and that it’s truly the best choice for them at that time.
Oh and if you need a kid, I’m often in the mood to lend mine out.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:16 am
I’m not sure I could try on 30 pieces of clothing WITHOUT my children in an HOUR! (Then, I admit, I am a bit of a dawdler!) Good for you!
You are right about note-taking styles - mine tends to be less “outline” format than some of my classmates, so I too have felt guit when asked for notes. Interestingly, I have noticed that when I KNOW I am taking notes for someone else, I do a really good job and pay closer attention in class. Probably I should take those kinds of notes all the time, eh?!