Big surprise: I’m not a fan of the resting.

Sigh.  
Not 24 hours before I went to the hospital with contractions last Sunday, I’d made up a list of a dozen or so different things I’d like to get done as little weekly projects until my due date.  They’re all pretty minor, and none are absolutely imperative, but still, I hate that they’ve all [...]

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Gah! Gaahhh! Gaaahhhhh!

The first “Gah!” was for the first broken tub/shower faucet handle.  But no biggie, we super-glued that bad boy and put it back on the next day, no problem.  The second “Gaahhh!” was for the second broken handle, which resulted from Spouse using his über-manly grip (force of habit, dealing with crappy old fixtures) to [...]

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By the way,

I’ve become quite rotund of late.

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Thud.

That’s my head hitting the desk.  I am soooo tired, like first-trimester tired.  Somehow, sitting around not contracting zaps all my energy.  Or maybe it’s the fact that I’m creeping up on the third trimester, although I still haven’t decided if it starts at 28 or 29 weeks.  I think at this point all that [...]

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Feeling better

I’m still having contractions, but they’re down to 2-3 an hour if I’m sedentary, and a little more often if I’m up and around.  And as impatient as I get with not being able to do all those projects I had grand plans for between now and May 21, I can do sedentary.  I can [...]

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Well, that was fun. Wait–no, no it wasn’t.

Spouse and I spent a few quality hours in a triage room in the childbirth unit late last night, me bare-assed in a gown and hooked up to monitors, and Spouse trying his best to soothe me (unfortunately for him, I’m pretty much unsootheable) and later, to stay awake (we left a little after 1am). [...]

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Bzzzzt! Try again!

I don’t accept passive writing from myself or students, because that kind of bad writing is not just careless, sometimes it’s just plain poisonous to the way we think about important subjects.
Headline: “Bikinis Make Men See Women as Objects, Scans Confirm.”
It should read, “Men See Scantily-Clad Women as Objects, Scans Confirm.”  You know why?  Because [...]

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27 weeks

“I’ve got this rash” is not really something anyone wants to hear, but I’ve got this rash.  I retouched it out of this photo so as not to gross everyone out entirely, but if you notice an oddly smooth patch on my upper belly, it’s not that I was trying to hide stretch marks or [...]

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Selective ignorance

Snow? What snow?
Instead of complaining about a meteorological event that may or may not have happened overnight into this morning, let me complain about what I did with my afternoon yesterday.  I went through every aisle at Babies R Us and every baby-product aisle at Target with a scanner to register for gifts.  I made [...]

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This is unacceptable. Why isn’t it unacceptable?

It’s not exactly news, but it still manages to shock me if I spend more than a second reading the headline.  Uninsured people self-diagnose, stretch prescription meds or medical appliances beyond their intended usage to save money, go without treatment when possible, or seek medical treatment and end up with thousands of dollars in bills [...]

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