man oh man

there is a LOT going on. I can't talk about it though. Sorry. I'm not totally sure who reads my blog. I will fill you in once it doesn't matter anymore

My shower last weekend was a lot of fun, thanks to all who came. It was really nice to see and catch up with people I haven't seen in a long time.

aaah, summer, I barely knew thee.

Tomorrow is my first official day back at school. I'm actually looking forward to it. Don't get me wrong, I'm always a fan of sitting around, drinking beer in the middle of the day, taking naps, and watching tv, but it's only really fun in small doses. Also, I love the children I live with, really, I do, but OH MY GOD I need to get away from them.

Todd and I went to dollar burger night at our favorite Richmond restaraunt last night, and tonight we're having salad bar night. I made some dressing from a recipe he brought back from Ithaca, and man is it ever potent. It has two kinds of vinegar, feta, capers, AND garlic in it, among other things. Whew.

ok, Martha's got a point

Todd IS home. Finally. It's awesome. It's almost unbelievable. I have somebody to hang out with and do stuff with again. Yesterday we went to Kroger and Sams and even that was fun. Everything's better. I'm much less lonely and irritable now :)

booo

Todd didn't leave Ithaca until like 6. Which means he probably won't be home tonight. He does this every year. The only suprising thing is that I keep falling for it.

Todd comes home tomorrow!

Although, he won't come hom until late, so I have to wait allllllllllll day.

Two days (or so) until Todd comes home!

yay!

This does mean, however, that I have to start coming up with actual meals, again. I do enjoy just getting to eat fruit or a salad or french fries for dinner while he's not here, and not having anyone to mind. I am kind of excited about having an excuse to cook again, too, though.

I am in need of inspiration (which thanks to my awesome sister I should be getting some of at my shwoer :)) But does anyone have any good romantic first night home meal suggestions?

The answers

Martha and Erin are the only ones of you with any guts at all.

1. How fast does hair grow, in miles per hour?

about .00000001 mph

2. How many people die each day on earth?
250,000

3. How many cigarretes are smoked annually in the United States?

500,000,000,000, five hundred billion

4. How many people die in automobile accidents each year in America?

about 45,000

5. How many people died in the vietnam war?

also about 45,000

6. How many different ways are their to configure a rubic's cube?

The claim on the original packaging was over 3 billion, it's actually WAY over 3 billion, more like 40,000,000,000,000,000,000 different ways.

I think this is the really interesting part . . .

7. How many days does it take for a million seconds to go by?

11.5 days

8. A Billion seconds?

32 years

9. A Trillion?

Longer than modern homosapiens. way longer.

Attn: whoever bought me a copper pot off my wedding registry

I love you forever.

Audience Participation

So I'm reading this book, Innumeracy, and one of the things it talks about is our inability to recognize the magnitudes of things. So Just for fun, take a shot at guessing at each of these amounts, and DON'T USE GOOGLE :) Answers to follow at a later date.

1. How fast does hair grow, in miles per hour?

2. How many people die each day on earth?

3. How many cigarretes are smoked annually in the United States?

4. How many people die in automobile accidents each year in America?

5. How many people died in the vietnam war?

6. How many different ways are their to configure a rubic's cube?

7. How many days does it take for a million seconds to go by?

8. A Billion seconds?

9. A Trillion?

Try not to do math to answer these (like I need to tell you that)

mmmm, new books

I look just like Homer Simpson right now.

The best part about being out of town is coming home and finding the shipment of books your ordered ready and waiting. One book I got is a GRE book. I am taking the GRE in October. Not to belittle Di's experience, but being a high school math teacher, I'm not too worried. I'm serious, people, if you want to go to graduate school, teach high school math and the General GRE will be a piece of cake. Otherwise, you're screwed.

My other books are all called things like "Innumeracy: mathematical illiteracy and its consequences" and "A mathematician reads the newspaper." I'm so excited. At the moment, I'm just rolling around in them. Although, I have started browsing "The cartoon guide to statistics."

Very Exciting.

In other news, I have officially received my first wedding present (from my friends who are moving to SOUTH AFRICA and will therefore miss the wedding) and TWO presents have been bought that I have not received, very exciting.

The other best part about being away? coming home to a FULL DVR. Don't expect to hear from me for a few days.

Nothing like my mom's house . . .

I'm at my mom's house. I love my mom's house. It's not even the house I grew up in, but I still love it. It's so tiny and cozy and yet it has just enough room, and most of all, it's QUIET. Also, my mom is an awesome gardener, which I aspire to.

I wish that Todd and I had a house like this in Richmond. I like the people I live with, and they try to make us feel at home (aside from the fact that their family has a way of filling every nook and cranny in the house, but such is the way of children.) but it's just not the same, and it's never going to be.

Shoot, I wish we had A house in Richmond.

Crap.

I loooove . . .

My almost husband. I do. I intend to love him the rest of my life, even if it kills me :)

BUT, I hate it when he's gone. And, sometimes, when he's gone, I get really mad at him. Really mad. Sometimes just because I miss him, sometimes, like now, because something happens and I need him, but he's not here. I end up going through stuff all alone, even though I'm not supposed to have to now that I have him. It makes you kind of resentful and, well, mad.

I am reading a book about a couple that is separated by world war II right after they're married. It talks about, from the husbands perspective, how instead of growing together to fill eachother, they must each grow straight to be sure they still fit together when he gets home. I think that's interesting. When someone goes away for that long, part of you has to close itself off to them to make it, you have to make yourself not need them as much, while in a healthy relationship one of the things you're supposed to do IS need eachother. It's scary to think sometimes that I may get to used to not having Todd around.

I don't think that's actually going to happen. Five minutes after he's home again I KNOW that's never going to happen. But, still, it gives me a lot to think about while he's gone.

good news/ bad news

I got my air conditioners installed, it involved way to much money's worth of plexi glass and a lot of ductape, and it's probably not totall air tight. But it works. It's already much cooler in the bedroom.

The REALLY bad news is that I broke a window. Just the glass, so I can get it fixed, but I have a bad feeling it's going to be expensive.

Damn.

hot hot HOT

Ok, I now have three friends who have decided to be librarians, one of whom decided it completely without knowing the other two. That's a little creepy.

I finally broke down and bought window air conditioning units for the bedroom. That means tomorrow is going to be filled with taking windows apart, buying plexi glass, and trying to figure out how to fit them into my stupid side opening windows. What can I say, when the house went over 90 degrees, I gave up.

It's hot. Really.

ROFLMAO

ok, as usual, you people were right. Dead like me is brilliant.

BTW, tell me how cute my wedding invitations are.

It's still hot here. I am considering buying a portable air conditioner. But, unsuprisingly, they're expensive.