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Ack.  Have been down South with the family in anticipation of a low-attendance conference presentation (8:30 p.m. in New Orleans–really, who do they think is going to be there?)

Am exhausted from a lack of sleep and family-induced stress and illness.  Ken can now walk around again, but we’re both having to take a lot of medication to do so.

I had the opportunity to watch a few hours of 7th Heaven with my grandmother (and by opportunity, I mean the viewing was forced upon me).  Vacuous characters, inane dialogue.  One episode managed to make the evils of smoking part of all four intertwined plots!  If you need these people telling you about smoking for an hour, you really need to be smoking something.

Now that Obama is the president, my grandmother no longer believes America is a great country.  She said so twice.  Now, if I’d said something like that a few months ago, when someone else was President, I would be called unpatriotic.  For once, I would like consistency.  Just a little consistency.

Margaret Atwood has been nominated for an award for her nonfiction Payback, which I’m teaching in UWP 18. 

I love the beach, but not when it’s filled with Spring Breakers.  What is it about Spring Break that makes people act like that?  Why don’t they just drink and have sex in regular life, so it’s not such a big deal on vacation?

I miss Kelly and Tessa.

I keep thinking about drinking games I could start with my mother (like every time she starts talking bitching about a certain thing that she’s obsessed with now, I could take a shot).  Unfortunately, all conversation roads apparently lead to this subject and I’d be dead of alcohol poisoning in half an hour.  It’s still tempting, if only to dull the road to death that will surely be caused by these conversations anyway.

Hi, Emily!  (I heard you’ve been reading!)

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  • du Apr 8, 2009 Link

    Yes, I too have noticed that it takes a Democrat in office for conservatives to realize that blind patriotism is absurd.

  • Emily Apr 8, 2009 Link

    Hey there! You caught me 😉 Sorry we missed you guys, we would have loved to see you.

  • Margaret Apr 11, 2009 Link

    I can’t believe you’re complaining about 7th Heaven.*

    What part of winky-wink Stephen Collins and Jessica Biehl do you not find utterly transfixing? Maybe you caught a less-than-awesome season, perhaps after the infamous Maxim incident.

    Otherwise, Southern living sounds like torture. Come back to Davis and find out how I messed up your classes!

    *I was going to say something disgusting about how I only watch it in France, where it’s called “7 a la maison” but resisted.

  • TESSA! Apr 14, 2009 Link

    love bug.. i am so excited that im on your blog haha!
    anyway i miss you terribly and im sad i didnt get to go to New Orleans with you guys.
    I am now sick it awful. i hope your feeling better.
    i loved my note on the bedside table. i smiled.
    before i finished reading the paragraph on the drinking games and your mom, the first thing that came to my mind was you would die of alcohol poisoning…and then i read it!
    too funny:)
    miss you
    too short of a trip come back!

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