Courses taught: 4 (which equals a full year’s load for a professor)
Thank yous from former students for talking them down from suicide: 1
Sons sent off to college: 1
Peking duck meals consumed (Alexander has been craving it): 0, unfortunately
2000 Ford Tauruses bought to replace “the shopping cart”: 1
Amazing plays viewed in Ashland: 4
Famous television/film actors recognized in plays in Ashland: 3
Trips to LA to visit The Simpsons and associated friends: 1 (visit described at matchflick)
Obscene puppet improv theatre with Brian Hensen: 1
Books I’d planned to read for “fun” (i.e. not for classes, campus book project, book group): over 20
Books I read for fun: 2
Tim Burton exhibits in LA: 1
Gordon cups: 2
Cats gone crazy: 1
Facebook requests from people who seem to think that Facebook is myspace (i.e. from people who do not know me and who have pictures of themselves taken in the mirror with a phone camera): 2
Facebook requests denied: 2
Weeks without a working oven: 2+
Computers replaced: 2
DVD players replaced: 1
Afternoons I ran away to go wine tasting: 1
Papers graded: who was counting?
Movies seen in the theatre: 2 or 3 (not enough!)
Weird medications I went on with awful side effects to try to stop headaches: 1
Weird medications I know have to wean off of (because you can’t just stop it) because they don’t stop headaches: 1
Black bras purchased in search of one that was actually comfortable: 3
Simpsons-themed cakes made for me: 1
Days off: 0
