| Blog Entry - Thursday, April 19th, 2007 | Add / Read (2) |
I know you've noticed yet another long silence. So that those of you in the Notes world have an opportunity to giggle... well, I let the user.ID I'd been using to access my hosting provider expire. And it wasn't an ID for which I still had a certifier. So I had to start over. Sigh. Sheesh - you leave the Notes world for one lousy year and you go right back to making rookie mistakes. Ah well. Life goes on. All is well now, thanks to an new install and some cross-certifying from my friendly neighborhood Chris.
As you've no doubt guessed, things here have been busy. I've moved into the new house. Well, mostly. I'm in, I'm just not unpacked. I've got the kitchen 99 percent unpacked, and I'm probably 90 percent of the way there on the books (after buying a few new bookshelves at Ikea), but the bedroom and office are still mostly boxes. I'm wearing the same seven or eight pieces of clothing over and over again (with a quick wash in between, thanks to Philip's regular washing schedule). But I'm loving the new house. I've had a few people over - my friend Marcus was in town and broke in the guest bed in its new room, and we've had a few friends and their kids over for dinner. Every time the kids screeched or pounded, I jumped (post-traumatic stress perhaps?) but then I smiled, knowing that nobody lives underneath me and I'm in my very own place. Yay! Sitting in my living room with the sun streaming in and the breezes flowing through is one of the nicest feelings anywhere. This weekend, I tried to bake this cold/bronchitis out of me by sitting on my back deck to work on a paper - again, very lovely. Will be even more lovely when the back deck no longer has the falling-apart furniture left by the previous owners (heavy trash day coming soon).
I've got a few posts backlogged to be written - perhaps by listing them here I'll create some automatic accountability for myself:
- Sonnet XX and Teaching Shakespeare
- Writing Center thoughts
- Summer plans and professional development
- Blogging and Working: More thoughts on separate blogs
- Recommending: Houston Real Estate Agent
- Recommending: Houston Mortgage Broker
- Recommending: Houston Flooring Installer
There are a few others, but those are the ones I've been promising myself to write for weeks. Every time I think I'm getting caught up and can take some more time to blog and get my act together, something happens: taxes are due, a paper is due, grades are due, I get bronchitis, a baby is born, birthday parties to attend, friends come in town... Mostly good things, but plenty to distract me from sitting on the computer. It's very different for me having to wait until evening to blog - when I worked from home, I could do an entry any time. I worked so many hours that it didn't really matter. Blogging while teaching, especially when I don't use their machines or network to blog... well, that's another matter entirely.
I'm off now to replicate my blog, work on some homework, and get in a little relaxation before starting all over again tomorrow, while watching a little guilty-pleasure tv (TiVoed Buffy reruns at the moment -- by the way, I'm trying out the new Buffy Season 8. Slightly different format (comic book), but clearly from the oh-so-beloved Joss).
Author: Libby Ingrassia
Posted at: 08:24:30 PM
