Good Luck Gina!
It’s been a tough 5 1/2 years, but we’ve worked hard and managed somehow.
So in closing, one of my favorite exchanges:
We were explaining to a new graduate assistant how, because of the layout of the lab, we spent more time with each other than we did with our husbands.
Gina: We spend so much time together…
Michelle: …we even finish each others sentences.
Gina: It’s like being married…
Michelle: …only without the sex.
Gina: It’s exactly like being married.
So I’m not just losing a co-worker, I’m losing a wife.
Dear Eliot Spitzer,
Fuck you.
Appalachia is not an insult. It’s my home.
I never did get around to posting pictures of my bookshelf. Mostly because that would involve a LOT of pictures, since I have a lot of books.
So for your amusement, here’s my computer desk at home. Just to give you a tiny peek into my life. The part off to the left where the light is shining? That’s the table where I continually lose the battle of “keeping clean.” However. since you can’t see it, then for all intents and purposes, it is clean. Ha!
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Me: I’ve often thought that if someone tied me up…
Gina: WHAT?!
Me: …that I’d be mute. Because I talk with my hands so much.
Gina: That’s not where I thought you were going with that.
I just decided that the song most UNlike my life right now?
Warren Zevon’s “Lawyers, Guns, and Money”
If only I could get the song out of my head, where it’s acting like it wants to be a soundtrack to things that aren’t happening to me.
And this? Made me laugh out loud.
At least I’m not a zombie.
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It’s spring break here at WVU, so posting will be sporadic.
Not that I’ve been consistent or anything for the past several months, but still.
In the meantime, here’re some bits I’ve come across that might amuse you:
Current Earth Destruction Status (found several different places)
and
How to Destroy the Earth (I may actually have mentioned this before)
Hamster Tracker
And let me tell you, I know y’all have been jealous of our spring break travails in the past, but this year… just wait till you see the details!
Michael has a job!
YAY!
The delay has been that he had to pass a background check. But they just called him to set his start date!
If you have any spare good thoughts, please send them towards Akron. Michael’s grandmother apparently had a mini-stroke this morning. She seems to be doing okay, but will probably be in the hospital for a few days.
I think unpredictable might be more accurate.
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Setting: Michelle, at the sink, washing pans and bowls after having mixed together a batch of chocolate shortbread. Michael, at the kitchen table, reading. In the basement, the dryer has just buzzed.
Michelle: Hark, from the wilds of the basement, the clarion call of the dryer.
Pause.
Pause.
Michelle: Man callously ignores the piteous cries of the dryer, allowing its sad cries to continue unabated.
Pause.
Michael: Man, sensing danger, gets up.
