Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Something in the water? Everywhere?? updated

Wow- there are pregnant people everywhere! I know of at least three bloggers (I forget where I saw the third one- sorry!), two friends IRL, and one former student who are having babies in008! How exciting for everyone. I have no exciting news- certainly not of that magnitude- as I have been prisoner in my own house since yesterday morning (it seems the entire week). D has some cold/flu yucky thing and will be missing her third day this week tomorrow. It's an extra big bummer, because she is supposed to sing in a 2nd/3rd grade musical tomorrow night, and play in a piano recital this weekend (and she's been too sick to practice all week). I hope she is at least healthy enough for the birthday party on Saturday- poor little thing. 

In better news- I submitted grades for one class and am just awaiting a take-home exam from the other very small class. This means that I had time to wrap presents today, but I still haven't gotten the will the write Xmas cards. Not that I don't have research work to do, but I feel compelled to spend most of my time with D as she's camped out on the couch all day. Today we (she, mostly) watched about four episodes of "Arthur", two movies (including "Good Boy"), and two episodes of "How It's Made". I guess I did do quite a bit of administrative stuff related to a grant purchase, and organizing meetings for early NEXT semester (I am chairing a search committee for the first time), and finished that grading, but I feel like I've been on this couch ALL DAY. Oh yeah- I vacuumed, too. Oh, and H is in Supermax Grading Jail today- with Bose Noise Canceling Headphone on- it's like he isn't even in the house!

As I said, I have nothing too exciting report- but did you all get a load of that student who wanted to use my computer the other day? That was completely bizarre... 

eta: I just found out that my (much younger) sister is ALSO having a baby girl next May! Wow!

8 comments:

Seeking Solace said...

SuperMax Grading Jail! I love it!!! I usually have my headphones on too when I grade.

MommyProf said...

I love the SuperMax Grading Jail. I spent yesterday locked in the conference room with my 3 1/2 inches of tests and term papers to grade.

Addy N. said...

"SuperMax" was the first thing that popped into my head, but I later thought that "Solitary Confinement" would have been more appropriate!!

luckybuzz said...

The pregnancy thing is weird--I have two other friends (who I was NOT expecting to be, uh, expecting) who are also pregnant. I'm guessing it has something to do with my Advanced Maternal Age, that I know all these people right now...

And I hope D feels better soon!

Addy N. said...

Hi luckybuzz! I was just last night telling my husband that it's weird how many people are expecting right now and he said I just don't usually notice (since we're trying for our 2nd). Now- I'm sure I'm extra aware, but this is really out of hand! When I was pregnant with my daughter, my best friend from elementary school got pregnant with her second, and my best friend from high school got pregnant with her first! We also had friends who had babies 9 and 3 months before us- it was baby-crazy!

USJogger said...

"Something in the water"? You're the biologist, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works.

Jogger

Addy N. said...

Jogger: Actually I'm NOT a biologist, but "ha ha ha!"

skinny size me please :-) said...

Maybe the other blogger is "Am I a woman scientist? She's expecting too. And ScienceWoman and See Jane Compute have baby girls, so there's a bit of it about.