This week's questions were suggested by drgilesstuart.

1) Which one is more irritating- being too hot or being too cold?
2) Were you born in the winter or the summer?
3) What are your favourite foods to eat when you need to warm up and cool down?
4) Which one are you more likely to suffer from- hayfever or flu- and does it run in your family?
5) You are granted a day of perfect weather whenever you like. What day do you place it on and why?


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1. Franklin College has an organic food buffet for $7 that always includes nonfat FroYo. Today's flavor was Mounds Bar. Mm.

2. Rivers Cuomo wrote one of the songs on Adam Lambert's new album. As if I weren't already excited enough! His first single is so danceable! It's going on my workout mix.

3. I almost started crying while reading one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's love sonnets to my class. Predictably, it was "How do I love thee, let me count the ways..." Tomorrow is Tennyson's "Ulysses" and I fear I'll have the same problem.

4. My mental "happy place" is next summer's trip to Europe. Other than the Netherlands, I don't know where else I'm going. But I kind of want to travel about. For like a month. Why not--I have the summer off! I guess I'll need to save up more money, though.

5. Can we just HAVE GAY MARRIAGE RIGHTS NOW? What is the EFFING PROBLEM!?! GIVE IT.

This is my second post, here at thefridayfive. I'm glad to be a part of it.


This week's questions were suggested by bookbird

Memory and Desire.
1. What is your happiest memory?
2. What is the most important life lesson you've learned?
3. What is the most difficult decision you've had to make?
4. What is the best thing about your life?
5. What is the biggest challenging you're facing right now?

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I really am so grateful for the way things are working out these days. Things really are going very smoothly.

* Ruthie has what is almost certainly the flu, BUT this is the best possible week all semester for a child (or children) to get sick. I have class 3 days a week (M,W,F) and there's an un-make-up-able quiz every class, so missing class is decidedly problematic. BUUUUT this Wednesday all classes are canceled for a conference. This is the only week all semester that a class will be cancelled like this. I'm grateful that of all the weeks we could have sick kids, it was this one.

* At my school, I have to have at least 1 language learned (that's 3 semesters worth) before I can take the vast majority of the classes I'll need for my degree. There are 2 "tracks" per language, but every track requires at least one accelerated session. That's where an entire semester is crammed into 4 weeks, either in the summer or in January. I took my first semester of Greek that way and it was a nightmare. There's no way I could do that now- it's just too much. I'm having a hard enough time getting everything done for a regular semester, I can't imagine how I would do what they call a "40-60 hours a week commitment". I'm spending something like 20 hours a week just on Hebrew now. To compress 16 weeks worth of that into 4 would require an unbelievable amount of time, and that's just school work. Maintaining my family is still largely my responsibility and that takes quite a lot of time as well.

So all that to say, I walked into seminary knowing that coming up was January Hebrew which was both required and impossible. I took a leap of faith that it would somehow fall into line.

Which it has! They have decided to offer (for the very first time) Hebrew 2 in the spring semester for people who can't handle it in January. Hebrew 3 will be next fall like always (for the psychopaths who take Hebrew 1 and 2 bootcamp style in the summer). And, not only that, but it's at the best possible time I cold imagine: 11-12 MWF. It couldn't be better than that. I'll be able to drop the kids off at school and Ben at the sitter and then go right to campus, get my studying done at the library (where I study best anyway) before and after class and then get the kids from school and Ben from the sitter's and have my evenings to spend with my family. Win!


There's more, too, but Ben's agitating for attention and Ruthie's loudly dying in her room so my computer time is done for now...

Dearest Kim,

Your room is a disaster area of epic proportions.  You claim to be working so hard on it and we might almost believe you if you had made some progress to show for it besides, oh I dunno, your freshly painted fingernails.

So either you did them this morning when you missed the bus to school, or you are so incredibly talented that you did them while working on your room.

Either way, your nail polish privilege has been revoked.  Your pretty nail days are numbered.

If your room is not looking better in record time, your days of picking out your own clothes are numbered as well.  You will get to wear your tech school uniform shirt and a pair of jeans every day to school.  That's it. The rest of your clothes will be confiscated.  If you complain, then it will be the SAME shirt and jeans every day and they will only be washed if you make the effort to wash them.

So, you see, you can either stop being stupid or start being miserable.  Your choice.

TY for your anticipated cooperation with this matter.