Thank You for Being a Friend

I have been terribly busy of late. Actually, I've been terribly busy avoiding my duties as a student. Lia has been wonderful for the last few days -- the perfect dog. She snuggles; she plays; she listens when I tell her to "sit" and "stay." I'm not holding my breath. Sooner or later she'll piss me off again. But, in the meantime, she has been fun to hang out with. So, instead of doing my work ... I'm hanging out with my dog.

Tomorrow, though, I have to do a paper -- at least 1 of the 4 remaining papers. This one is due by Tuesday, dammit. It's on A Room of One's Own. I'm starting to really tire of Virginia Woolf and her melodramatic bullshit.

Then, on Sunday. I need to draft out my Local Color paper. I will probably have to go up to the library -- which is okay because then, maybe, I'll get a chance to stop by Robyn's apartment to drop off some of the stuff I saved for her out of my garage sale. I've got stuff for Albina, too, but I haven't made it to get that stuff to her. She called today to "cancel" our appointment for today -- that I had frankly forgotten about. Whoops. I am really getting scatterbrained of late. Okay, okay. I've always been scatterbrained, but that wasn't really a surprise to any (all three) of my regular readers.

I found a place on line to order my tea -- $32.00 a pound plus shipping. I'm not entirely sure I want or need a pound of a tea I save for guests considering that I get guests all of maybe once a month. My, how things have changed. I remember spending almost every evening in my apartment in Sugar Grove entertaining friends -- MIG, Albina & Stephanie, work friends from TGI Friday's, etc. I miss that -- but I'm just not in a position to entertain at my parents' house.

Speaking of that, my parents will be putting the house up on the market in the Spring. Joe is supposedly buying them a house where they can move while they get this one in order. Hmmm. Right. I will believe all of this when I see it. I am a bit irritated because if this all works out on schedule, we'll be moving in the middle of my Comps. Can I just say that this timing would really suck?

I had conferences with my students this week. I'm more than irritated because I have at least 10 students failing my class. One of these is a band girl who has missed something like 4 nights of the one night per week class for "band" stuff. She hasn't turned in any of her work. Every time I get a chance to speak with her about these problems she tells me that she has "computer problems." Bullshit. Plain and simple. Bullshit. There are something like 30 open computer labs on campus, each with anywhere from 30 to 100 computers available for student use. Several of these labs are open 24/7. I am so freaking irritated. She needs to pull her shit together and get it done. I am probably the easiest teacher on campus and I go above and beyond to help out. How anyone can fail my class is beyond me. Yet, students have managed to do just that every semester.

Dammit.

It's almost 11:00 and I'm tired. I spent all day glued to the Golden Girls marthon on Lifetime (that's right, John and Nadine -- I'm still watching Golden Girls -- and I'm not ashamed to admit it!) I've got to finally call it a night.