Love in the Time of Allergies

Here's the spot in Ireland where I told Dave that we should really hold hands and walk on the beach seeing as it was our honeymoon and all. He humored me and then broke out in a rash later in the day from all of the sea kelp in the water. Just the kind of sacrifice I'll be expecting for the rest of our marriage.

The Knot

Married life is good so far. We started it with a trip to Ireland, so how could it be bad?

This is the day-old donkey that I wanted to bring home with me. It was hard to get a good pic of him because his momma made sure she stood between us. That's just good parenting.

I'll post more pics in the days to come.

Blog-worthy

Maybe I was inspired to blog today because I ran into good pal, KC, at Cupcake or maybe it's that something so ridiculous just happened that there's really no other outlet.

You see, I just peed on my pants. Not in my pants. On them. Allow me to explain.

a) The bathrooms here at Cupcake are co-ed and some schmuck decided to leave the seat up. Thank you very much.

b) I had several cups of water and was getting so much done that I waited a bit too long to use the facilities.

c) I had to dance around a bit while undoing my button-up pants, and so once free, I began to release immediately upon contact with the toilet. Obviously.

d) I came into contact with the cruddy rim of the toilet (see letter "a" above), and startled, jumped up while other things gave loose (see letter "c" above).

It all happened very fast. And yes, the evidence of this incident is quite visible from the rear. And so...

e) I am going home now.

The Living

Hey, remember me? I just finished my written exams and think I might once again join the land of the living. Hard to say for sure, but it feels like it could happen.

Break's Over

Have I mentioned yet how much I'm dreading my prelims and that I'm pretty burnt out from grad school? Almost daily I imagine myself in some other job with some other schedule and some other work load. Usually that imaging keeps me from starting and finishing the work I should be doing. Today I'm thinking about being a treasure hunter and I'm going to start by finding the Winter Carnival Medallion. I have some ideas about its location, but the people on the medallion discussion board don't seem to agree with me. That's fine, suckers. I'll find it first.

Next Up: Law School

Today I turned in my very last assignment for a graduate course E.V.E.R. I'm going to enjoy this feeling until I start my prelims, well, pretty much next week.

Really, though. Yay!



Tangent: I really like this picture of Ms. Logan playing bocce.

"There were a lot of kids in the pool."

Dave threw up in the pool today. And then kept swimming like nothing had happened. We had chili for lunch. So you can just imagine.

Gatorville

Loved NRC. Perhaps the best conference I've attended to date. My talk went well, which was a relief. And the pool bar was a delightful treat on a December afternoon. This all has me feeling rather calm as I face tremendous challenges in the end-of-semester weeks to come.

p.s. Lee, this picture is for you.