Just Checking In

My face feels better every day. It doesn't tingle as much, now. When it does, it is centered around my nose and lips instead of spread across the whole left side of my face. This is a relief. If these symptoms come and go, it probably means that my MS is remitting/relapsing. I can only hope, now, that it is this type rather than one of the progressive types.

My students are driving me stark-raving mad. I not only give oral direction in lab, I give written directions. I repeat myself incessently (working off notes -- I even read them aloud to my students, dammit). Yet tonight as the essays are due ... well, I've got students posting them as replies to the prompt, replies to DIVIDING LINES (to separate the categories on webboard), sending them as e-mails, posting them in-text to random conferences, etc.

I give them a break the first time that they screw it up, but I have spent all weekend grading random assignments, moving posts to where they go, and answering multiple phone calls from the same people asking the same questions.

Needless to say, my to-do list has changed very little. I am going to have to go out to school really early tomorrow to get some crap done and then I am going to have to go to Denny's right afterwards to get some reading done. I won't be able to be with my Lia-Pia for a long time, tomorrow. It's a good thing Grandpa stays home with her. I think I'll leave around 1:00 and be home around 11:30 or so. That way I can still give her the antibiotics that she is on -- only Mama does it right with the special treats. She spits it out if I don't do it for her -- everyone else is inept at this (of course, my mother had to teach me how to do it, but now Lia won't even take the pills for my mother).

Mom needs insulin and I have to go. My Dad is asleep on the couch and isn't hearing her yelling for him.

So is it appropriate to wish, now, "Happy September 11th?" I suppose about as much as "Merry Pearl Harbor Day."