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Friday, May 18, 2007

at this rate, this thing costs me about $4 a post.

I've had a lot of things going on; I just haven't felt like writing. And I'm so tired that I just used a comma splice in that sentence and had to go back and fix it. (Apparently in my own personal grammar-nazi code of ethics, a comma splice is a cardinal sin, but starting a sentence with "and" is just fine, and the use of parentheses is completely unrestricted. Hey, it's my grammar-nazi code and I can be completely inconsistent if I want to.)

So, without further ado, a brief sampling of the Things Going On mentioned above:

We took LT to the orthopedist today for that thing about his legs that I think I mentioned before. It turns out that his left lower leg is about one centimeter shorter than his right; I knew there was a difference but I didn't think it was that much. As long as the difference doesn't increase too much, all the doctor prescribed was a lift in his left shoe and a follow-up every year. If, in the course of the massive puberty growth spurts that are to come, he should wind up with, say, a difference of an inch or more, they'll operate on him. But that's not likely.

I left my wallet at the grocery store today. Believe it or not, that doesn't happen often. I think the only time in adulthood that I've left my purse or wallet anywhere (that I haven't blocked from my memory, anyway) was the time about seven years ago when I left my purse in a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant in Hollister, about two and a half hours away, so that we had to drive all the way back there in the pouring rain the next day. One cross-state drive with the family is a lark. Two in 24 hours, not so much. At least today it was more like two and a half minutes away.

I'll bet you think you know why I'm up so late, but you're wrong*. I haven't Librivoxed in a month, because of this stupid nasty cold and cough thing that has been plaguing me. It will be aaaaaaalmost gone, and then just as I'm looking forward to a nice late-night recording session, wham start the sniffling and coughing again. (At least it's not as bad as poor T, who is now getting over walking pneumonia and hasn't gone to work since Tuesday. He gets all the fun stuff, I swear. It's much more interesting to tell people you have walking pneumonia or bronchitis or a broken ankle or back surgery [him] than viral pinkeye or an ear infection [me.])

*actually, it's a transcribing job this time.

Oh! oh! and I've learned to knit cables! All my life I've thought they were this super-mysterious complicated thing, when actually they're not. At all. You should try some. They make you feel really smart.

Um, let's see. College. Last week I went down to the valley by myself and had my head examined took an hour and a half's worth of assessments in English and math. I had so much fun that if I could do the same thing every week for credit, I would. (I took the SAT an extra time too. I told everyone it was because I wanted to see if I could get a better score, but really it was because I had $30 to spare and I wanted to spend a Saturday in word-comparison and algebra heaven. There. I said it.) Today I went down and talked to one of the counselors for the nursing department about the results and Where To Go From Here. I did well enough on the tests that I can be pretty confident about challenging the reading corequisite for the English class I'll be taking (and really need. If the assessments had included anything about how to write a proper research paper, they'd have sent me packing to the seventh grade). So next semester I'll be taking music appreciation and (most likely) English. I'm so tempted to take some lovely (absolutely research-paper-free) algebra and trigonometry classes, with their lovely methodical equations that feel like listening to Scarlatti piano sonatas, but those will have to wait until I'm able to spend more time (and money) driving back and forth to the valley in the evenings. I'm taking my history final on Tuesday, and we have three more weeks of Awana and three more weeks of Bible study and then begins THE SUMMER O' BLISS, with nary an evening commitment (for me -- the Ts have Boy Scouts) until classes start up in mid-August.

Also re: college and then I will SHUT UP ALREADY RACHEL: I should have done the dratted orientation, instead of waiving it because I'm not actually taking classes on the campus down there. Maybe then I would have known a) where to find an ATM, b) where to make copies, and c) how to print the cover letter for the prerequisite-challenge application I typed up in the computer lab today, without looking like an absolute dolt asking random people for help. Debi: Do the orientation if you can swing it. I'll watch the boys. Or maybe we'll foist all our children on our unsuspecting husbands while we do the orientation together. Par-tay!

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