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We got our heater fixed shortly after my last post, by the way. We've been warm for a while now. This morning, Jesus Christ himself (I guess... either him or a band of lake-effect snow) treated us to our first (finally) snow of the year, an inch or so. Snow is one of the strangest fucking things on the entire damn planet. I wonder if, before the wonders of television, if people in sub-tropical or tropical zones heard of snow and instantly laughed at the inanity of the idea. I mean, we get tiny ice crystals that fall from the sky, blow around, and accumulate on the ground.
There's not much left for me to do for the rest of the semester. Well, I say this in relative terms. I've only got to:
Once I do all of this, I'm finished with the semester and I can relax for a little bit. We'll be hitting Muncie/Westfield on the 16th through 20th for fake Christmas, and then we'll be back in the 'kron (which is an uber-cool way I just made up for saying Akron and sounding awesome while doing so) for... well, probably the rest of the winter. We are poor. In related news, until the 15th of the month when both Amy and I get paid, we have $3.42 of money for any purpose. We do have some groceries, but I shudder to think at the horrors of our cabinet in five or six days, and I think we only have like two rolls of toilet paper left. Those last few days will be one of those marvelous character-building experiences that we'll cherish in 20 years when we are telling our never-existent children about in our attempts to simultaneously bore and educate them. Yep, wiping our asses bare-handed and eating cardboard is just great fodder for shit like that. In fact, we studied one of those events that led to one of those my parents favor, the great Blizzard of 1978, today in disasters class. Small world! Maggie may be in labor. Her temperature today (yes, I did shove a thermometer up a small dog's ass) was a much cooler 99.2 degrees, which typically signifies labor will start soon. She had shredded a lot of paper last night, and was quite attached to the nest box this morning, and she was just a touch grumpy, methinks. I wish she'd hurry up and pump them out, I guess. Cute little poopmakers galore! |
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on December 5, 2006 01:35 PM | Permalink
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