4 posts tagged “diary”

1. To my (and I think Heather's) surprise, Heather and I both want a third child. It's probably not going to happen -- we're too old and too poor -- but it's nice to know we both want it, at least. Damn, that sounds awfully depressing. Really, it was nice. I actually learned this yesterday.
   
2. 

   SamAdamsCherryWheat.jpg
   When I'm thirsty, I can go through a bottle of Sam Adams's Cherry Wheat beer in about fifteen seconds. It's like drinking a shandy except a hell of a lot more potent. If I'm thirsty and hungry, my alcohol tolerance is now so low that a single bottle will make me feel a little woozy.
   
3. Joe Reger, Jr.'s datablogging platform, while extraordinarily powerful-looking, is not as flexible as I hoped. This evening I wanted to put together a simple datablog to help me keep track of my productivity. Here's what I wanted it to include:
   
   • When I went to bed
   • When I got up
   • When I arrived at the office
   • When I left
   • How many words I wrote
   • How many emails were in my inbox at the end of the day
   • How many hours of teaching prep or administrative work I did, or maybe some other way of quantifying what I did, such as hours worked plus a subjective one-through-five rating for general productivity
   • Other particulars such as weather
   However, the platform doesn't allow time of day as an input format. Oh well. Maybe I can do it off-line. Imagine that.
4. I love salad. I knew that already though. With eggs, cheese, nuts, and meat, and a very oily dressing.
   

Slept all day. 

1. When I feel like shit, and I think it's because I'm tired, lying down on the floor of my office for half an hour with some balled-up clothing for a pillow under my head, amazingly, actually helps. Even if, as was the case today, I've had so much coffee that I feel sick to my stomach and can't possibly sleep.
2. Writing is hard. I knew this, of course. But what I forgot is that it's so hard that it sometimes puts me in a tremendously foul mood even if I'm actually getting something done. Which I did today. Weird but true.
   
3. Mothers -- primates and humans -- sometimes kill their babies, and scientists don't like to acknowledge this.
   
4. Joe Carter of The Evangelical Outpost is just as intellectually narrow as he was the last time I read his blog months ago.
5. Element of Crime's live act is a little, ahem, how should I put this, rough around the edges, but I like it anyway.
   
6. Red and yellow peppers are very, very good for you. (From WellnessLetter.com.)
   

Weird day. After H. got home, slept for three hours. Woke up when it was time for the kids to start getting ready for bed. Trip to Target at 9:30 p.m. Now it's very late and I've promised H. to take over morning duties for tomorrow. I guess I won't be getting much work done tomorrow. I'd started on an article -- writing one, that is -- about my failures as a teacher. It occurs to me that maybe that's not the smartest thing to be writing just before my tenure evaluation.